EXPERTISEInvestigations

Global Data Risk’s Investigations practice delivers results in the most complex and sensitive matters confronting corporations and their counsel. Our investigators bring decades of experience in federal law enforcement, intelligence, and forensic analysis. Each engagement is grounded in evidentiary discipline, discretion, and technical precision.

Led by former senior officials of the CIA, FBI, and U.S. Secret Service, GDR combines investigative tradecraft, digital forensics, and legal strategy to resolve matters that carry both financial and reputational risk. Our cases frequently involve fraud, corruption, trade secret misappropriation, sanctions violations, and economic espionage. Whether responding to a regulator, supporting outside counsel, or advising a board, GDR provides findings that withstand the highest levels of scrutiny.

GDR’s investigations encompass areas such as financial crimes, insider misconduct, intellectual property theft, and network intrusions. Our team has traced billions of dollars in misappropriated assets, exposed state-sponsored interference targeting U.S. corporations, and conducted internal reviews inside Fortune 500 companies. We operate globally — often in jurisdictions where information is scarce, incomplete, or deliberately concealed — leveraging human sources, forensic tools, and intelligence methodologies to deliver clarity where it matters most.

When the facts determine the future of the enterprise, Global Data Risk delivers independent, defensible, and actionable investigative results that stand up in court, before regulators, and under shareholder scrutiny.

Associated Services

: Bankruptcies, Computer Network Forensics, Expert Reports and Testimony, Export Controls, Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Investigation and Research, Sanctions, Special Master

CASE STUDIES

Trade SecretsExecutive Departure Data Reconstruction

A multinational industrial enterprise experienced the abrupt departure of a senior executive responsible for strategic product development. Shortly thereafter, a direct competitor introduced a product bearing similarities to proprietary designs under active development.

GDR conducted a comprehensive reconstruction of digital access patterns, including endpoint activity, cloud synchronization history, external storage usage, and encrypted messaging applications. The review was designed to determine whether proprietary engineering documentation or design schematics had been transferred prior to departure.

The structured analysis clarified the scope of potential exposure and provided defensible evidentiary findings suitable for litigation consideration. In addition to informing legal strategy, the engagement resulted in strengthened executive offboarding controls and improved governance over high-value intellectual property repositories.