Eric Lee is a financial and fraud expert with 25 years of experience in litigation support and expert testimony, forensic accounting, and turnaround and bankruptcy consulting. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA) and has a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Arizona State University.
Eric has significant expertise in litigation, forensic, and bankruptcy consulting, including the quantification of complex financial damages, lost profits, class action litigation, fraud investigations, reconstruction of financial records, corporate internal investigations, funds tracing and other financial analyses. Prior to his career in consulting services, Eric spent over seven years as a special agent with the federal government detailed at the FBI. During his tenure as a special agent, Eric investigated criminal and civil violations relating to fraud, money laundering, securities fraud, health care fraud, theft and embezzlement.
Eric has prepared expert reports, affidavits, disclosures and testified/presented as an expert in federal, state, military, U.S. bankruptcy, and alternative dispute resolution jurisdictions. He has also presented his findings to the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission and State Attorneys General.
Eric’s significant experience includes:
- Litigation Support & Expert Witness – Retained in numerous matters as a damages consultant and expert in complex commercial litigation and other disputes. Prepared expert reports, affidavits, disclosures and testified/presented as an expert in jurisdictions throughout the United States and Canada. Work includes economic damages and loss calculations analysis, intellectual property, rebuttal of expert opinions, class action claims, discovery and trial preparation, testimony & cross/rebuttal preparation, depositions and document management.
- Forensic Accounting and Financial Analysis – Extensive experience conducting complex financial analysis and forensic accounting related to multi-million dollar fraud schemes, analysis of complex financial accounts and transactions, reconstructing financial records, analysis of securities transactions, money laundering and international investigations.
- Bankruptcy and Restructuring – Conducted bankruptcy and restructuring-related consulting and expert witness engagements, such as: chief restructuring officer, receiverships, surviving officer liquidation, distressed company consulting and debtor/creditor financial expert, fraudulent conveyance, feasibility analysis (debtor and creditor), and criminal expert involving bankruptcy-related charges.
- White-Collar Fraud Investigations – Extensive expertise in conducting civil and criminal investigations into violations of corporate fraud, theft and embezzlement, white-collar fraud, money laundering, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, among others. Experience leading national and international investigations, conducting interviews of witnesses and subjects, and the collection and preservation of evidence. Testified as an expert witness in criminal matters for the federal government, defense and appointed by the court.
- Data Analytics – Advanced skills in analyzing large and diverse data sources related to litigation, economic damages, class-action claims, government regulations and forensic accounting engagements.
- Bankruptcy Proceedings
- Damages & Lost Profit Analysis
- Expert Witness
- Forensic Accounting
- Fraud Investigation
- Internal Investigations
- Litigation Support
- Turnarounds/Restructurings
- White Collar Crime