Laura Clemente is a Director at GlassRatner with over 14 years of experience in forensic accounting, litigation support, cash management, and trustee, receivership, and bankruptcy consulting. Her experience includes funds tracing and analysis of cash flows in connection with the majority of her engagements.
Ms. Clemente’s work involves analyzing bank and brokerage statements and accounting records, tracing cash and assets, and summarizing and reporting the sources and uses of funds. She manages, maintains, and reports on the assets of various trusts, receiverships, and bankruptcy estates.
Her restructuring experience includes the management of trusts and receiverships across a variety of industries, including financial institutions, hospitals, wind farms, condominiums, and bitcoin mining operations. Ms. Clemente has analyzed daily administrative issues, cash management, forecasting, reporting, claims analysis, distributions, liquidation, and termination of benefit plans in matters involving companies operating across multiple states in the United States.
In addition, Ms. Clemente has investigated and quantified international Ponzi schemes and fraudulent debt collection schemes, conducted corporate investigations related to partnership disputes involving mismanagement or theft of funds, and assisted trusts in matters involving allegations of misuse of funds by trustees. She has also worked with banks and other financial institutions to investigate and quantify embezzled funds.
Ms. Clemente is a Certified Fraud Examiner and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Georgia.
- Forensic Accounting
- Fraud & Internal Investigations
- Probate, Trusts, & Estates
- Ponzi Schemes
- White Collar Crime
- Post-Acquisition Disputes
- Management of trusts and receiverships across a variety of industries, including bitcoin mining, financial institutions, hospitals, wind farms, and condominium associations.
- Managed daily administrative issues, cash management, forecasts, reporting, claims analysis, distributions, liquidation, and termination of benefit plans, including:
- Orderly wind-down and liquidation of a payday loan company and related entities operating in several states across the United States, working with the Chief Restructuring Officer.
- Pioneer Health Services, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Mississippi, working with the appointed Trustee of the Liquidating Trust.
- Hutcheson Medical Center, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Northern District of Georgia, working with the Chapter 11 Trustee and the subsequent Chapter 7 Trustee.
- HMP Services Holding, Inc., et al., a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the District of Delaware, with operations in 14 states across the United States, working with the Liquidating Trustee.
- AMFIN Financial Corporation, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy involving AmTrust Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, working with the Chief Restructuring Officer.
- Investigated and quantified the nature and extent of international Ponzi schemes.
- Investigated and quantified the nature and extent of fraudulent debt collection schemes on behalf of regulatory agencies, including the FTC.
- Conducted corporate investigations regarding partnership disputes alleging mismanagement or theft of funds.
- Retained by trusts regarding allegations of misuse of funds by the Trustee.
- Retained by banks and other financial institutions to investigate and quantify the amount of embezzled funds.