Discovering the real story during a corporate investigation can be a daunting task. Whether a company is responding to a regulatory inquiry, has suspicions of internal fraud, or is facing other possible financial improprieties, Veris’ corporate investigations team provides management with unbiased and experienced support to make the right decisions.

Our corporate investigations practice provides personalized and timely consulting services to prevent, identify, respond to and recover from commercial exposure.

Veris offers the following corporate investigative services:

• Recreate events from fragmented or falsified data, separating complex financial transactions and conducting forensic inspections and interviews.
• Pinpoint and isolate crucial evidence and provide management or regulators with the findings.
• Conduct investigative due diligence and fact-gathering at the beginning of an investigation or preceding a proposed transaction.
• Assist with SEC and other regulatory examinations, government inquiries and investigations.
• Deliver confidential and swift responses to high-risk events, including regulatory inquiries and examinations, financial indiscretions and restatements, whistleblower accusations, insufficient disclosures, embezzlement of corporate resources and shareholder derivative suits.
• Present our findings through expert testimony at hearings and trial.

We have been involved with many high-profile corporate investigations, including one of the nation’s largest Ponzi schemes to date. Corporate investigation matters in which we have been engaged in recent years include:

• Assisted in-house counsel of a multimillion dollar global development company with an internal investigation of potentially fraudulent procurement activity involving numerous U.S. Government contracts. Our findings were used in reporting to various agencies in the U.S. Government.
• Provided and presented objective analysis of the appropriate application of accounting and disclosure requirements related to the loss contingencies given the specific facts and circumstances of a specialty property casualty insurance holding company being investigated by the SEC.
• Investigated the interests of a major direct investor in Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BMIS) over a period of decades. Our analysis and demonstratives evidenced our client's lack of knowledge of the Ponzi scheme and resulted in a reduction of hundreds of millions of dollars in the amount of the ultimate settlement with the BMIS bankruptcy trustee.