Forensic & Fraud Examination
When the numbers do not reconcile and the explanations keep changing, you need findings that hold up. CFE-led examination with institutional-scale fraud-analytics experience behind it.
Our view
Findings have to survive the room they land in: a workout negotiation, a fidelity claim, or a courtroom. That standard shapes the work from day one, in how evidence is preserved, how transactions are reconstructed, and how conclusions are written. We move fast because evidence degrades, and we coordinate with counsel from the outset so privilege and admissibility are protected rather than repaired later.
When this is the work
When trust in the reporting is the question.
Something in the financial record does not hold together, and the answer matters to a lender, a board, or a claim. We establish what happened, and how far it goes.
- Lenders and credit funds with borrower reporting they no longer trust
- Boards and sponsors post-discovery, asking how deep it goes
- Counsel needing financial forensics behind a claim or a defense
The Ore to Edge Discipline
The same three-phase discipline on every engagement, adapted to the demands of this work. See the full discipline.
Assay and refine
- Partner: scope the question with counsel and preserve the record before it moves
- Collect: ledgers, bank data, vendor and customer files, and system logs
- Filter: the anomalies worth reconstructing transaction by transaction
A preserved evidence set and a defined examination scope
Alloy and form
- Reconstruct transactions and trace funds through their actual path
- Test books against reality: revenue existence, vendor legitimacy, related-party flows
- Examine the borrowing base and collateral for fraud, alongside RG-3
A documented reconstruction of what happened and how far it reaches
Forge and hone
- Write findings memoranda for negotiation leverage, insurance claims, or litigation support
- Support counsel through the negotiation, the claim, or the proceeding
Findings that hold up where they are used
What you get
Findings built for the room they land in.
- Transaction-level reconstruction and funds tracing
- Books-vs-reality testing: revenue existence, vendor legitimacy, related-party flows
- Borrowing-base and collateral fraud examination, with RG-3
- Findings memoranda for negotiation leverage, insurance claims, or litigation support, coordinated with counsel
Common questions
Forensic & Fraud Examination, in plain terms.
Are you expert witnesses?
We produce examination findings and support counsel; testimony scope is agreed case by case.
How fast can you start?
Days, not weeks. Evidence degrades.
What does this cost versus what it recovers?
Engagements are scoped fixed-fee or capped. In our partners' institutional practice, fraud analytics eliminated $15M+ in losses and drove $10M in recoveries.
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