Anti-Money Laundering Investigations

How We Help

No matter the origin of the investigation, you benefit from our multifaceted, partnership approach that blends our investigative expertise and experience with specialized technology and data analytics capabilities. We are a multidisciplinary team of former regulators, prosecutors and law enforcement officials, former bank compliance and operations executives, former financial institution auditors, data scientists, business analysts, cybersecurity and technology experts, and forensic specialists. We help you identify suspicious activity, maintain regulatory compliance, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials, quickly find facts, and harness enterprise data to protect business value.

The need for an investigation can arise from various pressure points, including:

• Government agency or regulator issuing a consent order, or otherwise pressuring an organization to review accounts or other activity when there’s suspicion of past or current wrongdoing
• A company transition or transaction (e.g., acquisition, divestiture, etc.) revealing problems that need to be addressed. This involves due diligence either pre-, during or post-transaction to determine wrongdoing.
• Organization facing negative news, and needing to do an investigation to understand whether there was any wrongdoing so it can protect its corporate reputation
• Customers of an organization subject to securities fraud or other criminal allegations (e.g., Ponzi schemes, pump and dump schemes, bribery, etc.)

We provide a full range of AML-related services to our clients that include:

• Conducting multiyear lookbacks
• Performing detailed compliance program reviews
• Validating completeness and accuracy of bank automated transaction monitoring systems
• Performing end-to-end reviews of AML-related risks of financial products
• Investigating groups of bank accounts or accountholders
• Providing expert witness testimony on issues relating to AML
• Digital forensics to uncover obstruction or evidence tampering, including recovery of deleted files and identification of attempts to destroy data
• Data identification, collection and preservation, in accordance with global data privacy laws, from servers, computers, mobile phones and emerging cloud-based data sources
• Leading e-discovery software and services, including multilingual managed review and advanced analytics for quick fact-finding within large data volumes