Larry Kanter is a CPA with more than 25 years of combined Big 4 and international consulting firm experience. He was a Partner at PwC, EY and was a Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal. He has served in leadership and testifying expert roles in numerous large, complex engagements involving GAAP, internal control, damage quantification and fraud/forensic investigative issues.
Mr. Kanter was among the first forensic CPAs to integrate data analytic processes into his practice. One of Mr. Kanter’s most noteworthy engagements was leading the forensic data analytics component for the international investigation into the role of 26 Swiss banks in their appropriation of funds belonging to the victims of Nazi persecution by developing and implementing the processes to match holocaust victim’s names to lists of account holders at each of the 26 banks.
Since 2009, Mr. Kanter has been an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business where he teaches a master’s level course in Forensic Accounting and previously, he developed and taught SMU’s first course in Data Analytics for masters level accounting students.
Mr. Kanter is a CPA, with a Certificate in Financial Forensic from the American Institute of CPAs and is a Certified Fraud Examiner and is a member of various committees for the Texas Society of CPAs including the Business Valuation, Forensic and Litigation Services committee.
- Damages & Lost Profit Analysis
- Data Analytics Testing
- Expert Witness
- Fraud Investigation
- Forensic Accounting
- Healthcare Fraud
- Internal Investigations
- Litigation Support
- Ponzi Schemes
- Real Estate Fraud
- Quantified damages as a result of the wrongful collection of lender placed insurance premiums by one of the nation’s largest home mortgage loan servicers. This complex analysis involved almost $1 billion of premiums collected from both escrow accounts and through monthly borrower payments on more than 500,000 hazard insurance policies spanning 10 years.
- Retained by an international manufacturing company to investigate an alleged embezzlement by an employee. The Big 4 audit firm would not release the client’s audited financial statement until an independent analysis of was performed to determine both the amount of the embezzlement as well as whether the subject employee was acting alone or in concert with others.
- Retained by a global industrial products company as a testifying expert to quantify damages associated with the breach of a long-term supply agreement. The dispute was resolved shortly after the release of our report to the opposing party.
- Calculated the amounts to be contributed pursuant to a complex partnership like arrangement involving a dispute between two large private equity enterprises who were partners in several large investments. In addition, investigated a fraud claim filed against our client related to the management and operation of the arrangement.
Presented our findings to a three-judge arbitration panel in New York. - Calculated the amounts due pursuant to an Earn-Out Agreement in connection with the sale of an Electricity retailer.
- Working for the defendant in a profits disgorgement litigation case, located, extracted, and analyzed sales, production, customer and shipping data from U.S., Italy, Mexico, and Canada based operations of a global heavy industrial equipment manufacturer. The engagement involved the analysis of the data dictionaries for multiple ERP systems in multiple locations in an effort to identify the data fields that were necessary for inclusion in a database of sales that were potentially in violation of certain non-competition covenants.
- Texas Society of CPAs