Jade Damas

Jade Damas is a Director in FTI Consulting’s Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment. Jade is a forensic accountant with more than eight years of experience. Her professional background includes the conduction of corporate investigations, dispute services, business intelligence, asset tracing, compliance and risk assessments and the application of data analytics techniques on fraud investigations. Jade has worked with both national and international clients, including the investigation of offshores located in tax heavens, which provided extensive knowledge of anti-corruption regulations, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and the UK Bribery Act.

As a forensic accountant, Jade has coordinated numerous projects of financial investigations and dispute services. On most projects, she was keen to identify accounting, economic, financial or fiscal evidence of irregularities committed by the company or employee. The most common fraud cases conducted by Jade involved corruption, money laundering and conflict of interest. Furthermore, her background in data science has helped her use data analytics techniques in order to obtain more accurate and efficient results.

Jade’s expertise includes clients from various sectors, such as energy, mining, food and beverage, sportive, financial and others.

Before joining FTI Consulting, Jade worked for more than five years at Kroll and EY, where she was able to assist national and international clients in investigation projects, dispute services, shadow investigations and risk and compliance review.

Jade speaks Portuguese and English.

Relevant Experience:

• Coordinated a complex investigation project regarding a fraud scheme committed by the former executive management team of a large energy company in Brazil; the investigation included a detailed review of all the financial transactions of the company and its affiliates, and Jade presented the results to the company’s executive team, board members and public prosecutors
• Coordinated an investigation at a large transportation company in Brazil, due to a complaint of corruption filled by the federal public prosecutors (the MPF); the investigation included a review of the company’s financial transactions and a document review
• Conducted an international investigation project for a hotel located in a tax heaven; the investigation was due to an alleged fraud scheme committed by a former employee