In today’s complex and global business landscape, businesses aspire to operate ethically and be perceived as such in order to gain trust with their business partners and stakeholders and to ensure the sustainability of the enterprises.

Oftentimes, businesses are faced with unethical conduct posed by internal and external risks which can be detrimental, placing the company in compromised situation and mired in long-drawn disputes, amongst others.

Our team has dedicated our careers to support clients in helping them navigate and traverse these difficult terrains fraught with integrity risks. Be it advising clients to proactively improve their internal anti-fraud and corporate governance framework, supporting them in performing forensic investigations or dispute resolution, we set out to collaborate with the clients and are committed to helping the clients achieve their objectives.

How we help

Forensic investigation

Independent and targeted inquiries into large and complex assignments covering fraud and asset dissipation, bribery and corruption, special audit, and the right of audit.

Disputes advisory

Expert witness services including acting as party-appointed experts supporting claimants or respondents.

Digital forensics

Collect, preserve, image, process and review electronically stored information (ESI) including employing data analytics to sieve and analyse large data.

Anti-financial crime advisory / Corporate compliance

We provide assessment and advise clients on the design of their compliance programmes by performing current state assessment and gap analysis against international standards and best practices.

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Corporate intelligence

We perform researches to understand prospective business partners or targets using desktop research including specialist databases and/or human intelligence.

Cybersecurity

Respond to cyber incidents through collection of data logs and forensic imaging of impacted systems. We assist clients in effecting a mitigation strategy and recovery protocol, reviewing and reporting on root cause of the incident and providing recommendations for improvements.

Why Grant Thornton

We pride ourselves on our collaborative approach in working with our clients’ internal teams, their wider stakeholders and external advisors.

  • Forensically sound methodology
  • Integrated approach
  • Value adding
  • Forensically sound methodology
    Forensically sound methodology
    We employ forensically sound methods to gather and preserve evidence and assist clients to establish facts to respond to allegations of fraud, bribery, misconducts as well as inquiries posed by regulators and/or authorities. This will ensure admissibility of evidence in court proceedings where required.
  • Integrated approach
    Integrated approach
    We provide an integrated approach in assisting clients to address their concerns, encompassing initial evidence gathering or early case assessment, a phased-approach in investigation process and provision of fact-based reports, or the delivery of expert evidence. Where required, we can bring in support from our asset recovery teams.
  • Value adding
    Value adding
    Our experts are invested in understanding our clients’ unique requirements and supporting them to achieve their goals and objectives. We are committed to ensuring that our clients receive the value they are looking for.
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