Forensic, dispute, and financial-leadership work.
Principal-led engagements for trial counsel, executives, boards, and owners who need analysis that is defensible and decisions that are clear.
Sector focus: law firms and trial counsel; private companies, PE-backed businesses, and nonprofits; organizations under audit, regulatory, or compliance scrutiny; and the compliance and integrity functions that support them. Decades of federal and international-development program leadership inform the rigor behind the work.
Four service lines.
Every engagement follows the same four-step approach: discovery, analysis, documentation, and handoff. Typical deliverables are listed below the service lines.
Jump to: Litigation & forensic · Fraud examination · Fractional CFO · Controls & compliance · Approach · Deliverables
Litigation support & forensic accounting
Outcomes
- Economic damages quantified and tied to records.
- Assets and funds traced across accounts and entities.
- Findings framed for discovery, deposition, and trial.
Common scenarios
- Partnership, partition, and shareholder disputes.
- Contested ownership and contribution questions.
- Fraud and misappropriation in litigation.
Deliverables
- Forensic schedules and reconstruction.
- Damages and allocation models.
- Contradiction charts and evidentiary narratives.
- Expert reports and testimony (support of counsel).
Fraud examination & investigations
Outcomes
- Exposure points made explicit and fenced.
- Misappropriation quantified and documented.
- Early-warning controls that operate in practice.
Common scenarios
- Suspected embezzlement or skimming.
- Whistleblower and allegation review.
- Procurement and vendor fraud risk.
Deliverables
- Fraud risk assessments.
- Investigation findings and quantification.
- Anti-corruption and cost-principles policy.
- Corrective-action plans with monitoring.
Fractional CFO & interim financial leadership
Outcomes
- Reliable close, controls, and reconciliation.
- Decision-grade reporting for boards.
- A clean handoff when the engagement ends.
Common scenarios
- Between CFOs, or not yet ready for a full-time hire.
- Post-transaction or leadership transition.
- Nonprofits needing senior financial oversight.
Deliverables
- Monthly close and reconciliation routines.
- Forecast models and variance dashboards.
- Cash, budgeting, and decision support.
- Audit-readiness packages.
Controls, compliance & fiduciary accountability
Controls testing, compliance oversight, and GRC / integrity-operations advisory — built so accountability holds up to auditors, regulators, and the courtroom alike.
Outcomes
- Controls that withstand audit, regulatory, and litigation scrutiny.
- Compliance and integrity operations that produce evidence by design.
- Issues owned, tracked, and remediated to closure.
Common scenarios
- Audit recovery, remediation, and continuous monitoring.
- Compliance program build-out or oversight (policy, training, controls testing).
- Regulatory, Inspector General, or board scrutiny.
Deliverables
- Risk & Control Matrix (RCM), control maps, and controls testing.
- Issue management & remediation trackers with escalation.
- Policy lifecycle, compliance training, and executive / board reporting.
- Evidence-ready documentation packs and decision-cadence templates.
Evidence first. Findings that hold up.
Every engagement follows the same structured flow: establish the rules and constraints, test claims against the evidence, and produce documented findings with clear ownership.
Discovery
Clarify the questions at issue, the records available, the constraints, and the decision or dispute the work must serve.
Analysis
Reconstruct, trace, and quantify. Test what is claimed against the documentary record; isolate exposure and contradiction.
Documentation
Build schedules, narratives, and exhibits with defensible chain of custody — ready for review, deposition, or testimony.
Handoff
Deliver clear findings and, where relevant, controls and playbooks so the gap does not reopen.
Scoped to the situation.
Project / matter
A defined dispute, investigation, or deliverable. Typical: 2–8 weeks.
Fractional / retainer
Ongoing senior financial leadership at a predictable monthly cadence.
Interim leadership
Hands-on ownership through a transition. Typical: 3–12 months.
What you receive.
Representative artifacts tailored to scope and risk profile. Anonymized examples are available on request to demonstrate rigor without exposing confidential work.
Forensic schedules & reconstruction
Transactions and balances reconstructed and sourced to evidence. Typical in: disputes, investigations.
Damages & allocation models
Lost profits, lost value, contribution, and allocation — transparent and adjustable. Typical in: litigation support.
Risk & Control Matrix (RCM) / control map
Control coverage and evidence owners. Typical in: audit recovery, program setup.
Evidence-ready documentation pack
Reduces review-cycle friction and evidence gaps. Typical in: audit recovery, closeout.
Forecast model + variance dashboard
Decision-grade executive reporting. Typical in: fractional CFO, program setup.
Fraud risk mitigation plan
Early-warning controls and corrective actions. Typical in: investigations, dispute support.
Controls testing & compliance reporting
Controls testing workpapers, issue management, and executive / board compliance reporting. Typical in: compliance oversight, audit recovery.
What I can share on request.
Anonymized RCM / control maps
Control coverage, owners, and evidence trails.
Redacted variance dashboards
Decision-grade reporting with sensitive figures removed.
Contradiction charts & narratives
Testimony and documents mapped against the record.
Policy & operating-model excerpts
Anti-corruption, cost-principles, and governance samples.
Management action-plan tracker samples
Open items, owners, and escalation triggers.
Decision-cadence templates
Decision-brief and reporting-cadence formats.
See applied examples in Selected case studies.
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