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Recent Developments at FTI-International Risk:
FTI establishes a full service Financial Practice in Asia
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March 2010 – FTI-International Risk announces the opening of FTI’s Asian Financial Investigations and Restructuring Practice. The practice will be lead by Rob Morris who, as a Senior Managing Director, will be based in our Hong Kong office. Rob has a mandate to expand our regional service offering so as to be able to deliver forensic accounting, restructuring, insolvency and related services; these in addition to FTI-International Risk’s existing well-established business risk solutions, corporate investigations, business intelligence, brand protection, crisis containment and related service offerings.
Rob Morris
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Rob Morris was the East Asia Area Head of the fraud and dispute practice for a Big Four accounting firm, having originally established the practice in Hong Kong and China in 2005.
He has worked in Asia for most of his 30-year career and has extensive regional experience in handling financial investigations, dispute services, forensic accounting and financial restructuring projects.
Rob has provided forensic accounting services to numerous companies in respect of various allegations or suspicions including the governance of their operations in the PRC; issues relating to the United States FCPA act, phantom customers, bribery of procurement executives, self-trading and other fraudulent claims. He has also assisted companies in drawing up, implementing and enforcing risk mitigation measures in fraud and regulatory compliance.
Prior to rejoining the accounting profession Rob was with HSBC for 18 years, culminating in his appointment as Head of the Bank’s Corporate Workout Department for China, Hong Kong and Macau during the Asian financial crisis. In this role Rob had direct responsibility for the identification and resolution of distressed assets in respect of the Bank’s largest corporate lending book in Asia and was directly involved, or oversaw the workout of a USD1.5 billion debt portfolio which included more than 40 listed entities.
FTI-International Risk also announces the arrival of Allen Liao who joins the team in Shanghai as a Director, Financial Services.
Allen Liao
Prior to joining FTI-International Risk, Allen was the CFO and leading Managing Consultant, Compliance Services, Greater China for the UK based risk consultancy firm, Control Risks. He was mainly responsible for assessing the risks for multinationals doing business in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as planning and execution of investigative work.
Allen has conducted numerous fraud investigations, FCPA reviews, asset tracing, M&A due diligence and compliance investigations. He has undertaken assignments in a wide variety of industry segments, including financial services, insurance, construction, oil & gas, logistics, air transportation, retail and manufacture sectors.
Further Growth
In the coming weeks, FTI-International Risk will announce a series of other significant initiatives which will position FTI in Asia as a credible and conflict free alternative to the Big Four accounting firms.
If we can be of any assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact Steve Vickers or Rob Morris/Allen Liao at the addresses below:
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