Forensic

Disputes are an inevitable byproduct of doing business. When they arise, you must gather the critical facts, assess the strengths and weaknesses of your organization's position and develop a plan to settle or prevail.

Cross-border disputes can involve complex economic, financial and technical issues, as well as multiple languages, client locations and jurisdictional laws and standards. KPMG's Dispute Advisory Services provide litigants with a command of the issues and a sound assessment of each side's position. This is the kind of support that leads to better outcomes, whether in settlement or in litigation.

We gather critical intelligence to help you manage non-financial risk, as you undertake joint ventures and acquisitions, enter into new and emerging markets and manage your existing third-party relationships.

We support you with:

• New market intelligence and country risk, allowing you to enter challenging markets with confidence and a strategic edge.
• Political intelligence and stakeholder mapping, helping you make sound decisions that factor in policy risk and account for the key players in your industry.
• Due diligence, screening and background checks, leveraging sophisticated technology to conduct thorough research that helps you understand your counterparties and investment targets.
• Disputes, asset tracing and investigations support, piecing together public information, evidence and intelligence to identify assets, map networks and spot new lines of investigation across various jurisdictions.
• Special situations and crisis management, working with you to establish strategies that anticipate unexpected risks and crises and providing on-call support as new challenges arise.

We are a team of specialists who have lived and worked in the markets we cover, speak 25 languages, with a range of professional backgrounds, including political risk, investigative journalism, public policy, intelligence and academia.

We help you respond rapidly to data needs in investigations, disputes, regulatory and internal reviews and proactive compliance automation projects.

The relentless expansion of data volumes, sources and types is a double-edged sword of opportunity and threat for companies. Getting data “right” creates valuable insight into your business needs. Misunderstanding your data landscape, or not handling data properly, can create reputational, legal and regulatory risks to your business.

We can help you with:

• Forensic investigations: when data has been misused, or you suspect wrongdoing within your company.
• eDiscovery: when you face pressure to identify, collect, review and disclose your data quickly and accurately.
• Technology solutions in deals and transactions: when identifying, addressing and enriching commercially sensitive data within your business is vital for enhancing value and getting the deal done.
• Compliance automation: making tedious, manual compliance checks and validations more efficient.

Our specialists and industry experts have vast knowledge and experience in disclosure, incident response, investigations, regulatory inquiries and data enhancement and remediation.

Increasing dependence on third-party relationships, coupled with increasing regulatory and public oversight, exposes organizations to a host of new and serious risk and compliance issues.
Whatever the stage of your relationships, we will show you how to ensure third-party providers are a source of strength for your business, not a weak link.

Our technology-driven solutions leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning and other technologies to re-engineer customer due diligence, transaction monitoring and sanctions-management processes.

Through timely execution of our anti-bribery and corruption services, you can mitigate the risk of non-compliance with ABC laws and regulations, thereby avoiding fines, penalties, sanctions, civil liability and reputational harm.

Our team provides essential assistance in managing risk under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act 2010, Sapin II and the anti-corruption laws of numerous other countries.

We can help you by:

• providing prevention measures that include risk assessments
• evaluating program controls and governance structures
• developing solid and tailored anti-bribery and corruption compliance programs (e.g. ISO 37001)
• third-party screening and acquisition due diligence
• training programs in a variety of formats

We want to help you increase your levels of business integrity by focusing on “doing the right thing in the right way.” We can also support you in “measuring” integrity and enabling the implementation of an effective “integrity policy.” For this purpose, we developed a number of practical, tried-and-tested tools, based on specialist knowledge of integrity risks and dilemmas, as well as specific industry knowledge. 

How we can help:

• Evaluating, developing and implementing behavioral codes
• Organizing training courses on integrity (including dilemma training and executive coaching)
• Developing tools for creating and maintaining an ethical corporate culture
• Identifying the integrity climate within an organization