Pablo Amaya

Pablo Amaya, LL.M., CAMS, heads the Forensic & Litigation Consulting practice in Bogotá, where he supports clients investing throughout Latin America. Mr. Amaya has 15 years of professional experience in reputational risk analysis and mitigation, supporting clients in a broad range of investigative and litigation support matters, including internal and cross-border investigations, business intelligence investigations and reputational due diligence investigations compliance. Mr. Amaya also advises on fraud, corruption, geopolitical assessments and analysis, antitrust investigations and asset tracing exercises.

Mr. Amaya is engaged by clients and counsel to provide dispute advisory services. This includes working with subject-matter experts in disputes and international arbitrations, as well as administering fact-finding investigative services required for specific cases. He has focused his practice in the energy sectors, including oil and gas, mining, and renewable energies, in addition to the infrastructure, pharmaceutical and retail industries.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Amaya was Director of AML for Scotiabank and served as a project manager for one of the world's largest risk consultancy companies. Additionally, he worked for several years in various multinational law firms in Colombia and the United States.

Mr. Amaya is fluent in Spanish, English and French and has a basic knowledge of Portuguese.

Relevant Experience:

• Oversaw a complex forensic investigation for a South American port sector company following a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) breach alert related to potential payments to government officials; scope included accounting analysis, due diligence on more than 30 persons of interest, document review, e-discovery and Relativity analysis, and mapping of relationships among key subjects
• Led an FCPA investigation for a global lithium producer, overseeing a large-scale review that included e-discovery of two million documents, forensic imaging, interviews, subcontractor due diligence, community mapping and transactional testing to identify potential improper payments and expense irregularities
• Advised a private equity firm on geopolitical and reputational risk, as well as forensic transaction testing, in connection with the potential acquisition of a Colombian oil and gas company
• Led a dispute resolution project for a Latin American central government, serving as expert witness on the root cause of a failed software implementation; responsibilities included providing an expert report, assessing damages and overseeing e-discovery and the review of more than 2,000 evidentiary documents to support the government’s legal position
• Led a risk assessment and due diligence project for a European carbon developer with investments in Colombia; oversaw threat analysis, intelligence gathering through local networks and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (“DDR”) groups, and the development of security trainings and business continuity plan (“BCP”) policies to safeguard assets, personnel and operations