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CASE EXAMPLESEconomic Benefits to Vendor in Conflict of Interest with Global Cosmetic Producer Bank Negligence Dispute Liquidation Analysis of Financial Institution After the Subprime Market Downturn
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DIGITAL FORENSICS
Whatever the need in digital forensics, we provide independent and objective expertise. Our computer forensics experts have years of training and experience in forensic analysis of computers and other data storage devices. We routinely provide forensic computer analysis to our clients in cases involving intellectual property theft, employment disputes, fraud, embezzlement, and other situations that involve the use and movement of data. Unlike many firms, our expertise doesn’t end with computer forensics. We also provide a range of services in media forensics. Within the discipline of forensic audio, we provide clarification and enhancement services, along with audio analysis, speech transcription, and more. Our forensic video expertise allows us to work with any kind of recorded imagery, from still images and surveillance video to covertly recorded video material. Our forensic video discipline offers clarification, enhancement, transcription, and various video analysis services.
DIGITAL FORENSICS
Whatever the need in digital forensics, we provide independent and objective expertise. Our computer forensics experts have years of training and experience in forensic analysis of computers and other data storage devices. We routinely provide forensic computer analysis to our clients in cases involving intellectual property theft, employment disputes, fraud, embezzlement, and other situations that involve the use and movement of data. Unlike many firms, our expertise doesn’t end with computer forensics. We also provide a range of services in media forensics. Within the discipline of forensic audio, we provide clarification and enhancement services, along with audio analysis, speech transcription, and more. Our forensic video expertise allows us to work with any kind of recorded imagery, from still images and surveillance video to covertly recorded video material. Our forensic video discipline offers clarification, enhancement, transcription, and various video analysis services.
+ Full range of computer forensic acquisition and analysis capabilities, both on-site and in our computer forensics laboratory for electronic evidence retrieval and recovery, data mining and analysis, both stand-alone and in support of electronic discovery
+ Expertise in financial investigations, fraud investigations, and IP theft forensics
+ Innovative expert reports
+ Expert witness testimony
+ Proven, defensible protocols and processes for preservation, acquisition, restoration, and analysis
+ Examination of any type of electronic media, including desktop and laptop computers, servers, network shares, e-mail stores, backup tapes and other media, cell phones and PDAs, CDs, DVDs, flash drives, iPods and other media devices, external hard drives, flash cards, digital cameras and camcorders, voicemail stores, etc.
+ Removable device (e.g. flash drive) tracking from computer to computer and enterprise to enterprise
+ Sophisticated social analysis of e-mail activity
+ International data experience and capabilities for preserving, collecting, analyzing, processing, and delivering multi-language data populations, including Asian and other complex language sets
+ Translation services, both machine- and human-based
+ Analysis, clarification, and presentation of any type of audio and/or video recordings
+ Risk assessments to identify weaknesses with current information processes, internal controls, or systems management, subsequent development of comprehensive risk management strategies to address these issues
+ Access to industry-standard digital forensic technologies, including EnCase, FTK, and many more specialized forensic tools
+ Flexible deliverables such as user-friendly reports, native files, and load files based on PDF or TIFF-and-text for all major review platforms, including Summation, Concordance, Ringtail, and more
+ Secure browser-based online review platform with advanced tagging, categorization, privilege logging, and production capabilities with ability to configure as a local isolated review network or Internet-based
+ Customized programming and database design to maximize efficiency and reduce labor-intensive tasksCASE EXAMPLES
Economic Benefits to Vendor in Conflict of Interest with Global Cosmetic ProducerAccumyn’s expert determined and detailed the economic benefits reported by an employee’s affiliated company during his employment with a global cosmetic producer. In 2010 the cosmetic producer hired a new Vice President of Technology who later secretly formed and operated an IT support company which became a vendor of the cosmetic producer. This employee/vendor relationship violated the cosmetic producer’s employee handbook, which the employee signed, prohibiting conflicts of interest.
The employee utilized his officer position to channel a significant amount of the cosmetic producer’s information technology business to his affiliated company. Accumyn determined that the cosmetic producer made substantial overpayments to the employee’s affiliated company in the form of markups. Accumyn also prepared a detailed review of the reported assets and business expenses from financial statements, as well as a detailed analysis of bank statements, credit cards, invoices and income tax returns.Bank Negligence DisputeAccumyn assisted a receiver for a failed financial advisory group by evaluating claims against a bank for negligence, violation of account integrity, and conversion, in which the bank improperly allowed a check purchased by the financial advisory group to be deposited into an unrelated account at the same bank. Accumyn examined standards of ordinary care, deposit account integrity, conversion, commercially reasonable standards on deposit account activity, adherence to the bank’s own internal policies, and customary procedures for cancellation of an official check.
Liquidation Analysis of Financial Institution After the Subprime Market DownturnAccumyn’s expert assisted in the recovery of amounts due under provisions of a credit facility agreement with a public financial institution engaged in the origination and servicing of residential mortgages in the United States. The financial institution was experiencing difficulties in 2007 due to the market downturn related to subprime mortgages. The financial institution was acquired and made private by a private equity company based in Texas, which specialized in investing in distressed companies. A provision in the credit facility agreement between the lender and the financial institution provided that the debt should have been paid off if the credit rating of the financial institution would have fallen more than one “notch”. During mediation Accumyn prepared demonstratives of the various liquidation scenarios and identified key documents that revealed how management’s misrepresentations intended to prevent the credit rating downgrade.