Experts in complex data analytics and data management

20+

YEARS’ EXPERIENCE ADVISING CLIENTS ON HIGH-RISK MATTERS

40+

major business languages spoken

75+

countries worked in

Our expertise in complex data analytics, information technology, and data management lies at the core of our foundation. Our Data Analytics team help our clients and their counsel respond to and resolve business critical matters by analyzing and making sense of disparate and complex datasets to deliver insights at speed.

We seamlessly integrate with our forensic accounting, digital forensics, and eDiscovery teams to ensure an empirical approach to solving client problems and offer creative analytical and visualization solutions tailored to client needs.

We specialize in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters that require deep expertise and experience in forensic investigations, regulatory compliance and analysis of financial, operational and transactional data.

We take a consultative and analytics-led approach guided by the specific needs of our clients to develop effective, efficient and – above all – practical solutions in identifying, assessing and mitigating risks. Whether it be supporting a regulatory inquiry or implementing forward-looking monitoring capabilities, we provide reassurance to our clients and empower them to focus on value creation for their business.

We have expertise in the following areas:

Data Collection and Discovery
Forensic Data Analytics
Financial Analysis
Compliance and Transaction Monitoring
Systems Review and Controls Assessment
Cross-Border Data Governance and Security
In-house Digital Forensics Team

Work With Us

Our Expertise

Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF)
Anti-Trust and Price Fixing
Corporate Compliance Monitorships

Cross-Border Data Privacy
Fraud and Employee Misconduct
Litigation and Disputes
Sanctions and Trade Controls Violations (e.g., OFAC)

What Makes Us Different

Data Collection and Discovery

Our analytics team supports data collections worldwide, following established forensic protocols to ensure the defensible identification, extraction and collection of data. We handle a wide range of information sources including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, proprietary systems, legacy databases, cloud-servers, and other repositories of financial, operational and transactional data.

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Forensic Data Analytics

Our forensic investigators employ a risk-based analytical approach to help global organizations and counsel investigate and respond to allegations of misconduct. This approach allows us to confidently and quickly prioritize the critical focus areas of an investigation by identifying data points that present the highest compliance risks for review. Our team distils insights from voluminous datasets using a variety of analytical techniques and use these techniques to identify trends, unusual patterns and red-flags to form fact patterns and paint a full picture to help assess allegations and quantify risks.

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Financial Analysis

Our experts are regularly retained to support our clients with profit disgorgements, penalty and fines quantifications, damage valuations and ability to pay (ATP) calculations. Our strength in data mining combined with strong accounting knowledge and financial modeling skills means we are able to provide empirical, robust, and defensible analysis, frequently acting as testifying experts as well as consulting experts.

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Compliance and Transaction Monitoring

Using our deep investigative and compliance experience, we help design, build and implement proactive monitoring solutions to capture and distill holistic insights from disparate data sources and look for patterns, trends and anomalies that indicate risks. Results are presented via actionable dashboards that visualize risks across the enterprise with the ability to drill down to transactional-level details.

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Systems Review and Controls Assessment

Whether it is required by an investigation or a compliance monitorship, our data analytics team can inspect and evaluate if a corporation’s systems and IT processes effectively support the controls, policies and procedures currently in place and recommend appropriate remediation measures. Our methodology involves the examination of the entire data flow and system processes to analyze all things from a risk-based perspective.

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Cross-Border Data Governance and Security

We offer extensive multi-jurisdictional data privacy, transfer, and protection expertise in order to assist our clients achieve their objectives with compliance, litigation and investigations. We ensure highest levels of data security through global regulatory compliance with such laws as Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), blocking statutes and banking secrecy.

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In-house Digital Forensics Team

Our Digital Forensics Team support collections around the world following established forensic protocols to ensure the defensible collection and secure transfer of data and forensic analysis.

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Global Reach & Security

Global Data Centers

We have state of the art data centers around the world that meet or exceed Tier III standards in North America, UK, Continental Europe and Canada. Our data centers are secured to the highest of standards to mitigate cyber breach risks.

Global Mobile Discovery Solution

Our full-service Mobile Discovery Solution offers a scalable end-to-end mobile processing and review platform capable of handling complex project requirements and can be installed on-site independently or in a client infrastructure anywhere in the world. For the highest levels of data security, our mobile discovery solution can be air-gapped to restrict any outside access.

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Multinational Oil and Gas Extraction Company

Data Analytics

FRA was retained by counsel to assist a client performing a due diligence exercise in connection with purchasing an oil and gas producer in West Africa. The assets and systems under review were in a remote area and the scheduled period of support from the seller’s IT team was close to an end, which added significant

Multinational Life Sciences Company

Data Analytics

FRA was retained by US counsel to assist a life sciences firm assigned under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) related to violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The company had struggled to successfully navigate a previous, similar DPA and needed a global view into compliance related informatio

Public Disclosure: Data Analytics and DOJ Enforcement in Light of COVID-19

FRA partner Neil Goradia and director Matt Bedan join Ropes & Gray partner Jim Dowden on Ropes’ False Claims Act podcast, Public Disclosure, hosted by partner Kirsten Mayer, to explore what data will likely be subject to government interest and what in-house compliance functions should be doing now to mitigate risk. Learn how the Department […]

The Grey Zone Virtual Panel Discussion

How can data analytics and behavioral science be applied to mitigate risk and build a business that can compete on an increasingly challenging stage? In a virtual discussion, panelists Doel J. Kar, Amanda Raad, Alex Rene, Michaela Ahlberg and Anna Romberg weigh the impact of leadership and corporate culture on ethical business and compliance practices. […]

How will the ‘new normal’ shape fraud and compliance?

If remote working is to be a significant part of the ‘new normal’ as we exit the COVID-19 lockdown, what are the implications of this shift in how and where business is conducted for fraud and compliance? We argue that many of the controls which may have been previously effective in the workplace, will need to change now and into the future. Adapting existing controls to the remote working environment, the use of data and analytics in monitoring risks, and the proper balance between human and technological oversight will become more important as the ‘new normal’ takes hold.

COVID-19, Data Analytics & the FCA: Big Response, Big Data, Big Risk

This article was co-authored by Matt Bedan, Jen Baskin, Neil Goradia, and William Mui of Forensic Risk Alliance in collaboration with Jim Dowden, Ryan Rohlfsen, Kendall Dacey, and Kendall Scott Cowles of Ropes & Gray.

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