Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services

Forensic analysis andglobal experience:the intelligent connection

Protect your company’s reputation and reduce financial riskBusinesses are always under scrutiny but it is most intense when shareholders, business partners or regulators suspect wrongdoing. Regulators and enforcement agencies are more joined up than ever before as they cooperate across borders in the fight against fraud, bribery and corruption. This demands increasingly higher levels of integrity, honesty and transparency in the way businesses operate and makes it more critical than ever to respond rapidly, appropriately and robustly to any aberrational conduct.

Rapidly changing and increasingly complex regulatory requirements pose a critical risk to businesses. The avoidance of breaches of laws and regulations requires a robust approach to compliance and a multijurisdictional response. Executives who react appropriately to these challenges, and respond promptly to major incidents, can safeguard the financial and reputational value of their organizations.

By making intelligent connections between your business operations, markets and third-party relationships, we can help you get to the root cause of problems resulting from impropriety.

Our ability to make these intelligent connections helps you to uphold integrity in business behavior and drive corporate success. This approach is integral to all we do for you.

Our Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice connects the people, tools and insights that enable you to build a better working world. You and your advisors will be able to draw on our global network of multidisciplinary specialists. These forward-thinking professionals are experienced in managing the complex financial, regulatory, contractual and reputational risks your business is facing.

Preventing, detecting and responding to financial, regulatory and reputational risks.

Respond• Working with your legal, compliance

and finance professionals to uncover and investigate fraud or corrupt practices, alleged or actual, by employees, customers, suppliers or business partners

• Managing investigations alongside your legal advisors and other internal stakeholders to reduce the disruption to your business, the threat to shareholder value and the damage to brand reputation

• Bringing a robust, forensic approach to dispute resolution, to maintain your business advantage and protect your commercial position

• Capturing, preserving and processing electronic information for review in the context of investigations or disputes

Prevent• Drawing on our global experience

and sector insights to anticipate and detect compliance breaches, procedural failures, and lapses in business integrity that can cause financial losses and weaken stakeholder and market confidence

• Assessing your compliance risk framework in light of relevant risks to your organization and your vision and strategy

• Protecting your brand values by using business intelligence to understand, monitor and reduce the potential risks of impropriety by third-party suppliers and external business partners

Detect• Using forensic data analytics

techniques to interrogate complex data sets, to help you identify the threats to your business and prioritize your risk management actions

• Using forensic technologies and techniques to respond to cyber attacks; to protect the integrity of the evidence or investigation (including log data analysis, live network traffic analysis and host-based forensic analysis); to understand the content of any stolen data and identify the effects of the breach

• Supporting your development of a clear framework to manage the fraud, corruption and regulatory risks threatening your business; helping you put in place the structures and monitoring mechanisms that will improve your ability to detect potential issues proactively

RespondTake action in response to alleged misconduct, litigation or regulatory compliance matters

PreventProtect your business by helping to reduce the risk of inappropriate, unethical or illegal conduct

DetectReduce the cost and impact of wrongdoing by identifying issues earlier

Our dedicated teams use informed judgment and leading technologies to ensure your business maintains its long-term competitive advantage. This includes:

DisputesYou need to...

Manage and resolve commercial disputes rapidly

Develop a robust strategy to reduce the incidence of disputes and reduce losses

Understand the scale of your business exposure to potential disputes quickly

Communicate a credible and justifiable position to shareholders, auditors and regulators

Prevent value leakage on transactions

We will help you by:

• Helping you present an independent and robust assessment of your case, be it in litigation, arbitration or expert determination

• Providing expert witness services for proceedings in national and international courts, tribunals and arbitrations

• Strengthening your team’s understanding of, and compliance with, commercial contracts and warranties

• Preparing a preliminary assessment of damages you or a counterparty might have suffered to help you develop your dispute resolution strategy

• Providing expert advice on complex litigation and international arbitration matters across all major industry sectors

• Advising before a transaction on purchase price and accounting clauses in transaction documents, or afterward in the event of a dispute

You need to...

Respond to emerging risks

Reduce the risk of regulatory breaches to increase stakeholder and market confidence

Operate your business in line with its risk appetite and the values espoused by management

Develop an effective and prudent approach to third-party risk management

We will help you by:

• Conducting a risk assessment of the integrity and compliance risks impacting on your business, including bribery, sanctions and regulatory risks

• Developing and enhancing your integrity and compliance framework to align it with the risks facing your business while taking account of your organization’s resources

• Reviewing your integrity and compliance framework to assess if it is consistent with management’s vision and strategy

• Using proprietary technology to collect, review, and protect data for ‘Know Your Third Party’ programs, and to provide detailed insights into risks associated with business partners, including joint ventures, suppliers and agents

Business Integrity & Corporate Compliance

You need to...

Capture data and evidence from electronic devices when fraud or impropriety is suspected or discovered

Comply with data requests from regulators and other authorities

Develop your Information Governance Strategy with a view to reducing risk and cost while demonstrating return on investment

Proactively prevent and detect fraudulent or corrupt activities within the business and conduct ongoing monitoring

Respond quickly and effectively to cyber crime incidents

We will help you by:

• Handling relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in a consistent, defensible and cost-effective way

• Mobilizing manpower and technology resources to capture, process and prepare for review vast quantities of electronic data in a forensically robust manner

• Using our experience of disputes, investigations and regulatory reviews to help you govern and manage your information in an active and strategic fashion

• Identifying patterns and indicators of potential fraud or corrupt activity by applying advanced forensic data analytics including investigative data linking, social network analysis, artificial intelligence and predictive modeling

• Undertaking a comprehensive investigation to assess who was involved, how the attack was carried out, what damage was done and how your cyber breach response program can be strengthened

Forensic Technology & Discovery Services

We can help you respond effectively to specific business-critical risks.Or, better still, we can help you to

avoid exposure to potentially damaging threats before they occur.

Business-critical issues• Fraud, bribery and

corruption • Compliance breaches

• Whistle-blowing• Regulatory

Investigations• Improper conduct

by third parties

• Contract negotiations and commercial disputes

• Cyber crime and data theft

• Anti-corruption due diligence

InvestigationsYou need to...

Respond rapidly to allegations of fraud, bribery or regulatory breaches

Investigate across multiple geographies and legal jurisdictions in a consistent manner

Make stakeholders and auditors confident that issues have been dealt with effectively to reduce financial losses and regulatory risk

Understand potential bribery and corruption risks in target acquisitions pre- or post-close

We will help you by:

• Using our investigative experience, advanced forensic data analytics and e-discovery tools to establish the facts, including what happened, how and why

• Mobilizing our professionals at short notice, leveraging our global operating model and common forensic technologies

• Strengthening your internal controls and advising on the establishment of robust policies to mitigate the risk of future occurrences

• Identifying the potential for exposure including specific business conduct, financial transactions and ownership or relationship links that could give rise to concern

Global expertise, local knowledge, the right skillsThe EY Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice brings the people, tools and insights you need to respond, manage and mitigate financial and reputational risks to your business.

Multidisciplinary professionals• Over 3,800 professionals

worldwide

• Forensic accountants, technologists, former law enforcement and intelligence agency professionals

• Working in 70 countries

• Across 27 industries

Understanding how regulations, laws and compliance issues vary by country and region

Cross-sector specialists – including:• Financial Services

• Life Sciences

• Extractive Industries

• Government & Public Sector

• Construction & Infrastructure

Market-leading breadth and depth of insight into complex, international business processes

Thought leadership

Europe Middle East, India and Africa Fraud Survey

Offering powerful insights into perceived levels of fraud, bribery and corruption risks across 38 countries

Corporate Fraud – The Human Factor

Providing new perspectives on the many different types of “fraud trail” and where “following the money” might lead in future

Managing Bribery and Corruption Risk – Sector Analysis

Managing bribery and corruption risk across life sciences, oil and gas, extractive industries, and construction and infrastructure sectors

Tailored approachWe ensure our processes and forensic methods support your business, by applying them consistently wherever you need them. In addition, we bring sector specialists, coupling their insights and detailed knowledge of industry norms with our rigorous forensic approach.

Thought leadershipWe are exposed to, and gain insights from working alongside many of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. This knowledge keeps us at the forefront of leading practice and experience globally.

Our Global and EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa) Fraud Surveys clearly demonstrate our knowledge and understanding of fraud and corruption risk across the world. They form part of our continuing search for new ways to help clients be better prepared to face emerging threats.

Our professionals contribute to influential conferences and leading journals on the changing nature of fraud, cyber crime and other challenges to business integrity.

Leading forensic technologyOur global network of technology professionals utilize their e-discovery, forensic data analytics and cyber breach investigative skills and capabliities to protect your interests.

All of these capabilities – coupled with our intellectual property – operate on a leading technology platform and are supported by common methodologies and procedures.

Our services include investigating instances of cyber breach, building predictive models, profiling fraud scenarios and the use of big data analytics to improve investigative and compliance outcomes.

Talk to usFind out how we can help you protect the financial and reputational value of your business. We will react quickly and efficiently to prevent, detect and resolve any threats you face, however complex.

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About EY’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute ServicesDealing with complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance and business disputes can detract from efforts to succeed. Better management of fraud risk and compliance exposure is a critical business priority — no matter what the industry sector is. With over 3,800 fraud investigation and dispute professionals around the world, we can assemble the right multidisciplinary and culturally aligned team to work with you and your legal advisors. We work to give you the benefit of our broad sector experience, our deep subject matter knowledge and the latest insights from our work worldwide.

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