Rachel Perry

Experience

Rachel is a Forensic Partner with 20 years of experience globally. She conducts investigations in all industries including assisting clients to respond to inquiries led by global regulators, many of which lead to resolution by litigation or arbitration. She also focusses on the prevention of issues, assisting clients to drive their ethics, compliance and integrated risk management programmes.  In particular, Rachel:

• investigates complex cases of fraud, bribery & corruption, leading teams in the collation & review of large volumes of data, gathering evidence, conducting interviews & reporting findings to clients, regulators & law enforcement;
• advises on the development & maintenance of effective compliance, fraud risk management & ABAC programmes, including policy review, staff training, fraud analytics & third party compliance testing;
• prepares accounting estimates, financial models & drafts expert reports on quantum;
• optimizes internal audit and risk management programmes;
• advises clients on the financial aspects of commercial disputes, including post transaction disputes & loss of profit claims;
• leads market manipulation, market abuse & remediation exercises to address deficiencies in process & controls. 

Recent experience includes:

• running a full time, in-house investigations team at one of the largest Kazakh oil & gas entities;
• running a four-year fraud investigation at a large Kazakh financial institution, which was the highest value court case successfully resolved in the UK High Court in recent years;
• developing an end to end compliance program and running a proactive compliance analytics project;
• advising claimants and defendants in joint venture disputes in the oil & gas sector;
• fraud & ABAC investigations into suspected frauds, financial mismanagement & data manipulation in the health, gaming, manufacturing, retail, shipping, education & transport sectors; 
• investigations into LIBOR, EURIBOR, forex manipulation & breach of regulatory reporting requirements at banks; 
• developing a risk assessment program for new UK legislation on ‘failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion’;
• supporting clients in completion accounts disputes; 
• UK Bribery Act third party compliance reviews.

Education &professional qualifications:

• Member of the Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, ACA & FCA, 2002
• LLB Hons Law, French Law & Languages, University of East Anglia, UK, 1999