Our Team of well seasoned and qualified Dispute Consulting & Valuation professionals possesses a strong background in the following areas:
- Dispute Consulting Services
- Forensic Accounting
- Valuation Services
When you engage FGMK, you will appreciate the efficiency you gain from working with a highly skilled, results-oriented professional team that is certified, credible, responsive and focused on your needs.
Why FGMK?
Simply - our People. Our core team is made up of former Big Four professionals, who are not only well qualified, but understand the value proposition a client needs in choosing an advocate. When you consult with FGMK's Dispute Consulting & Valuation Services Practice professionals, you'll discover that we are a dedicated group that is:
- Experienced - in a variety of financial issues, covering a wide-range of industries
- Credentialed - Certified Public Accountants, Certified Fraud Examiners and Certified Valuation Analysts with proven experience as expert witnesses
- Innovative - providing unique solutions to complex financial problems
- Service-oriented - timely, objective and authoritative
Dispute Consulting Services
Through more than 20 years of experience in all areas of dispute consulting, FGMK's talented team has been called upon to assist counsel in complex matters involving:
- Forensic accounting investigations
- Fraud examinations and corporate investigations
- Lost profits and other damage computations
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Bankruptcy and reorganization services
- Valuation services
- Marital dissolutions
Because investigations and litigation consulting are tasks our team of Certified Public Accountants and Certified Fraud Examiners encounter daily, we approach every client engagement with a clear understanding of the dispute process. As a result, we are exceptionally responsive and attentive to your needs, focused on providing you with highly personalized service. Our professionals, sensitive to your time constraints, are readily accessible to provide you with the most accurate information and analysis possible.
In addition to comprehensive forensic accounting and fraud examinations, our Dispute Consulting Services include due diligence consulting and financial discovery assistance, as well as providing testimony and acting as an accounting arbitrator. In litigious situations, the expertise of a highly-trained, experienced and knowledgeable consultant can be invaluable. While working as behind-the scenes consultants or as declared experts, we provide attorneys with comprehensive services that complement their skills and help to resolve the dispute process efficiently from pre-complaint through post-trial.
Forensic Accounting
Our forensic accounting team is comprised of highly trained individuals with experience in all aspects of investigative accounting, including:
- Tracing transactions through the entire accounting cycle
- Using software tools and techniques to identify anomalies in large amounts of data
- Reconstructing revenues and expenses
- Piecing together the paper trail of source documents and ledgers
- Performing due diligence for business transactions
- Examining financial activities of business partners
- Investigating employee fraud
- Restating financial statements
Our Certified Fraud Examiners and Certified Public Accountants also have experience in providing expert testimony, performing background checks and conducting financial statement restatements. We can even provide assistance with implementing internal control changes to reduce the risk of future business fraud.
Technology has played a key role in our ability to build a successful forensic accounting practice. Our technology professionals image target individuals' hard drives and use the latest data mining and recovery technologies in order to identify potential anomalies and transactions that may indicate fraudulent behavior.
Our case experience includes investigating suspected fraudulent transactions for closely held companies and Fortune 500 corporations, as well as investigating questionable activities in marital dissolution cases. Our larger investigations have included automobile dealerships, manufacturers, beverage and hardware distributors, medical practices, governmental institutions and real estate entities.
Our forensic professionals not only have the requisite investigative ability, we also have the interpersonal and communication skills crucial to interacting with your Board of Directors, Audit Committees, legal counsel and outside authorities.
Valuation Services
Many of Chicago's leading law firms and corporate executives have chosen us to assist them with determining the value of a business as a whole, or specifically, the underlying assets, including the intellectual property of a business. Clients trust our responsiveness, honesty, open communication and our proven expertise. Seasoned Certified Valuation Analysts (CVAs) and Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are part of our business valuation support team, providing skilled assistance with all aspects of taxation, litigation, financial reporting and business planning valuations.
Our valuation services are well suited to a wide variety of circumstances, including:
- Acquisitions and divestitures
- Financial statement reporting compliance
- Employee incentive programs
- Buy/Sell agreements
- Divorce
- Estate planning and taxation
- Shareholder disputes
- Damages
Our valuation analyses have been instrumental in multimillion dollar transactions for major corporations, as well as in marital dissolutions of high net-worth couples. Our valuation services have been utilized by diverse businesses, such as manufacturers, distributors, medical practices, restaurants, telecommunication companies, insurance agencies, real estate entities and family limited partnerships.