Global capability and experience
FCPA Investigations require a global investigative capability and expert level experience in conducting fact-gathering, electronic discovery, financial and forensic accounting investigations. With offices across the globe, including North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, FTI has the ability to perform investigations wherever needed.

Our clients benefit from the unparalleled depth of our intellectual capital and applied knowledge. As individuals and as a company, we draw from our collective experience with innumerable previous engagements across a wide variety of industries. We provide cost-effective and phased solutions, ensuring that issues are resolved quickly and efficiently.

Investigative professionals from diverse backgrounds
FTI professionals are among the industry’s top practitioners and include former law enforcement officials, former regulators and federal prosecutors, certified fraud examiners, computer forensic experts, and numerous certified public accountants. We combine business acumen and specialized industry experience with expertise in accounting, and financial and economic analysis. Our accomplished advisors have repeatedly applied their knowledge in many high profile investigations giving them the experience to decipher and expose complex schemes through astute discovery, analysis and deductive methodologies.

FCPA investigations frequently require fact-finding beyond the books and records or figurative “walls” of the corporation. FTI employs fully-licensed and experienced international investigators with the ability to undertake detailed inquiries around the globe amid suspicions or allegations of FCPA violations. FTI investigators also have the in-depth industry knowledge and diverse industry experience to uncover evidence and prepare reports that reflect an understanding of applicable industry practices. We then recommend appropriate solutions to management, which may include the termination of corrupt employees or agents. We may also offer advice on the restructuring of supplier relationships or provide assistance with formal reports to law enforcement.

Relevant expertise for all phases of an investigation
Our team is highly adept at discovering and analyzing the most sophisticated circumvention of internal controls, unwinding complicated transactions, and reconstructing events from incomplete information or corrupt data. We investigate the financial data and discover how and when a suspicious event or transaction took place. We then assist in responding to allegations, preparing for an external audit, and designing controls that will help prevent future occurrences.

In-depth regulatory advisory skills
We also offer assistance in navigating the increasingly complex areas of technical accounting, internal controls, public disclosures, securities litigation and SEC regulatory compliance. Our team includes professionals with extensive SEC experience, as well as those who have served in senior positions with the FASB, the Emerging Issues Task Force, and the PCAOB as well as within international accounting firms. We can explain complex accounting and SEC issues, recommend alternative courses of action, and deliver solutions tailored to the needs of management, audit committees and legal counsel. We often facilitate closure on contentious financial reporting issues before they escalate into protracted investigations or enforcement proceedings.

Computer forensics
Our investigations and forensic accounting professionals also work closely with our electronic evidence experts to dissect complicated transactions and expose vital evidence. Computer forensic expertise is essential to the discovery process as more than half of business documents are stored in electronic form. Parties to complex investigations and disputes are required to retain, produce and make sense of large volumes of electronic data from multiple sources, including e-mail, voice mail, shared server files and databases. FTI provides access to nationally recognized technical, forensic and financial experts who use state-of-the-art forensic and data mining tools to efficiently recover, search, sort, sift and analyze massive amounts of electronic data.