White Collar

Brattle’s Sydney-based team combines expertise in economics, finance, accounting, and advanced data analytics to support clients in complex white-collar investigations and enforcement matters. Our consultants work with defence teams, prosecutors, and regulators to develop clear, evidence-based analyses and expert opinions. Our work often involves mapping communications, conducting forensic and accounting reviews, assessing the commercial context of the conduct at issue, and tracing financial flows, including cross-border wires or blockchain transactions.

In large, data-intensive matters, we routinely integrate multiple data sources, extract and add metadata from documents, and superimpose market prices or other indicators of value. We use secure, cloud-based platforms to make integrated data and analytics available to clients, build interactive timelines, analyse networks of transaction activity, and test allegations of collusion or misconduct. Our experts also provide summary and expert evidence, working closely with counsel to translate complex financial and economic issues into clear, accessible testimony for courts and tribunals.

Areas of Expertise

• Analysis of alleged fraudulent trading practices, including insider trading
• Economic impact and causation to establish materiality
• Analysis of fraudulent investment schemes
• Accounting fraud to inflate financial performance, hide losses, or cover up misappropriation
• Alleged violations of anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules (including issues with alleged financing of terrorist organisations)
• Investigation of false claims and bribery
• Public corruption and consumer protection
• Tracing and forensic analysis of money laundering and sanctions evasion