Investigations

Uncovering truth when it matters

We help clients across Australia and the Asia-Pacific navigate their most sensitive and confidential challenges.

Our team brings together expertise from law enforcement, legal, accounting, human resources, cybersecurity and data analytics. We provide objective and independent insights to help you make tough decisions with confidence and protect what matters most.

When stakes are high and discretion is everything, we handle sensitive matters with the speed, professionalism and empathy required.

Our trauma-informed training means we consider the human element with investigations, ensuring we get the answers you need while treating everyone with respect.   

How we help 

Proactive services

We help you detect risks before they become crises, building the defences that keep misconduct and fraud from taking root in the first place.  

  • Risk assessments and training: Evaluating organisational vulnerabilities and delivering workshops to improve controls and awareness.  
  • Policy and framework development: Enhancing governance frameworks to mitigate fraud, corruption, and misconduct.   
  • Investigation frameworks: Establishing robust protocols for internal investigations, ensuring consistency and legal defensibility.  
  • Data analytics: Using advanced tools to detect fraud, test controls, quantify financial leakage, and resolve system issues.  
  • Due diligence: Conducting background checks and counterparty assessments to support hiring, procurement, and partnerships.  

Responsive investigations  

When something’s already happened, speed and precision are critical. We get to the facts fast, so you can act promptly and with confidence.  

  • Fraud and corruption: Uncovering and quantifying fraud, foreign bribery, and corruption using forensic accounting and intelligence gathering.  
  • Conflict of interest and procurement fraud: Uncovering undisclosed relationships and irregular procurement practices.  
  • Financial investigations: Investigating misappropriation, theft, and complex financial transactions that include cryptocurrency and cross-border matters.  
  • Fund and asset tracing: Locating concealed assets across jurisdictions using digital forensics and legal expertise, and “following the money” through complex transactions and accounting treatments.  
  • Employee misconduct and integrity investigations: Investigating theft, fraud, harassment, discrimination, and other inappropriate behaviours with a trauma informed approach.  
  • Regulatory investigations: Assisting with responses to regulators, including expert witness support and digital evidence analysis.  
  • Intellectual property (IP) theft: Addressing IP infringement and data theft, including valuation of losses and cross-border investigations.