Firm Profile

K2 Integrity

Litigation Support Guide 2023

Ranked departments
Ranked individuals
Litigation Support

Contact number

+1 212 694 7000

Share profile

Also ranked in the following guides

About

Provided by K2 Integrity
Litigation Support

Overview and History

K2 Integrity is a premier financial crimes, risk, and regulatory advisory firm. With a focus on financial crimes risk management, investigations, monitoring, cybersecurity, and virtual asset advisory, we bring together deep subject-matter expertise with proprietary technology offerings to help clients creatively solve for today while preparing for tomorrow.

K2 Integrity represents the merger of K2 Intelligence, an industry-leading investigative, compliance, and cyber defence services firm founded in 2009 by Jeremy M. Kroll and Jules B. Kroll, the originator of the modern corporate investigations industry, and Financial Integrity Network (FIN), a premier strategic advisory firm founded by Juan Zarate and Chip Poncy dedicated to helping clients achieve their financial integrity goals. As K2 Integrity, we are the same trusted partner, a leader in financial crimes risk and compliance, investigative services, regulatory monitoring, and advisory services. It’s our passion to solve the most complex problems and to help clients be as effective as they can be in the public and private sectors.

K2 Integrity helps clients manage risk—whether that risk be investment, financial, regulatory, acquisition, new market entry, cyber, or reputational in nature—gathering intelligence to enhance critical decisions. We advise governments, companies, and high-net-worth individuals. Our clients frequently include financial institutions, law firms, hedge funds and private equity firms, and private and sovereign clients seeking to recover assets as well as public entities and private companies in a variety of sectors including energy, mining, real estate and construction, education, and technology.

Headquartered in New York with offices in London, Washington, D.C., Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, K2 Integrity employs a total global staff of more than 350 and maintains deep, diverse global networks.

Services

Asset Tracing and Recovery:

K2 Integrity specializes in helping clients identify, trace, and recover assets around the globe. Our asset tracing pursuits run the gamut: from funds shielded through complex corporate structures, to embezzled assets of former heads of state, to millions or billions misappropriated by schemers. The firm combines traditional asset tracing and recovery methods with the latest technology advancements to help its clients identify and recover attachable assets, uncover sophisticated embezzlement schemes, identify key relationships, and maximize the likelihood of recovery.

Construction and Real Estate Risk Management:

K2 Integrity’s construction risk management experts provide a wholistic evaluation of each project and suggest enhancements to ensure the necessary safeguards are in place. The firm’s ongoing monitoring ensures continued success until completion.

Corporate Contests:

K2 Integrity provides fact-finding and analysis to develop long-term strategy and inform short-term tactics both before and during a campaign to: create a pre-engagement plan or update a response plan, inform various constituents including management, legal counsel, board committees, or dissidents before or during an activist situation, identify misstatements or inaccuracies or add credence to an argument, support or modify the legal or operational goals of a campaign.

Due Diligence:

Whether the goal is gaining insight on a prospective investment, acquisition, merger candidate, or market, or the vetting of contractors, suppliers, and consultants for possible legal or regulatory breaches, K2 Integrity’s investigators and business intelligence specialists deliver comprehensive due diligence solutions—critical information that sheds light and enables a more informed decision both on value and the associated risk.

Financial Investigations and Forensic Accounting:

K2 Integrity conducts financial investigations and provides forensic accounting services to assist clients facing actual or potential regulatory scrutiny or litigation, and to meet their compliance goals. The firm combines technical forensic accounting and an investigative skill set with cutting-edge forensic and data mining technologies.

Fraud Detection Analytics and Investigations:

K2 Integrity offers unmatched depth of experience in highly complex, multijurisdictional fraud investigations. The firm helps clients understand the circumstances, weigh options for remediation, assess the damage and recover from it, and prevent similar incidents from happening again. Its expertise includes financial fraud investigations, inventory and assets fraud, price fixing and bid rigging, construction fraud, information breaches, and intellectual property leaks.

Intellectual Property and Counterfeiting Investigations:

K2 Integrity offers the full spectrum of proactive and reactive services to help companies meet the ongoing challenges of counterfeiting, grey market diversion, and illicit trade; misappropriation by employees, business associates, or competitors; global piracy; and hacking.

Investment Due Diligence:

K2 Integrity’s investment due diligence process is designed to identify hidden risks and potential vulnerabilities in any business opportunity via a global team that is fact-focused, technology-enabled, and tailored to each investment’s unique risk profile.

Litigation Support:

K2 Integrity has a distinguished track record of guiding clients through even the most complex and intractable of disputes, deploying a broad array of investigative resources that bear up to the most intense scrutiny. Through investigative analysis of an adversary’s reputation, history, and potentially available assets, the firm brings essential information to light and are able to provide clients with the best information to manage a dispute. These efforts regularly result in trial-ready evidence that will unfailingly stand up in court.

Portfolio Risk Management:

K2 Integrity assists the investment community with insight and transparency into its portfolio entities. The firm employs a multidisciplinary approach to develop oversight frameworks and risk management practices to manage key risk areas including those related to financial crime, data protection, governance, employee, and other related individuals conduct, regulatory risk, ESG, and cybersecurity.











Ranked Offices

Provided by K2 Integrity

USA - Head office
UK
  • London
    5th Floor, Cunard House 15 Regent Street St. James’s , London, Greater London, UK, SW1Y 4LR
    View ranked office

K2 Integrity rankings

Litigation Support Guide 2023
Filter by
Band
Global-wide
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies)
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies)
2
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Investigations Agencies)
2
Band 2
Lawyers
2
Matt Taylor
2
Band 2
UK-wide
Business Intelligence & Investigations
1 Department
Department
Business Intelligence & Investigations
2
Business Intelligence & Investigations
2
Band 2
Forensic Accountants
1 Department
Department
Forensic Accountants
3
Forensic Accountants
3
Band 3
USA - Nationwide
Business Intelligence & Investigations
1 Department
Department
Business Intelligence & Investigations
2
Business Intelligence & Investigations
2
Band 2