Mr. Nicholas D'Ambrosio

Nick is a Director in KPMG’s Forensic Services Practice and is based in Houston. As an auditor, forensic accountant, and attorney, he has assisted clients with a wide range of complex compliance challenges.

Nick has extensive experience providing clients with forensic accounting and investigation services to address allegations of accounting, financial and regulatory improprieties. He performs these services as part of internal investigations by audit committees, companies, governmental agencies and their legal counsel and in the context of adversarial discovery in litigation. Nick has traced cash and other assets, disentangled complex accounting and fraud schemes, investigated financial statement reporting improprieties, and performed analyses of large transaction datasets using e-discovery technology and data analytics.

Matters investigated by Nick have included fraud and embezzlement, whistleblower allegations, vendor “kick-back” schemes, purchasing and inventory diversion schemes, bribery of foreign officials in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and U.K. Bribery Act and violation of export controls, sanctions and anti-boycott laws.

Drawing upon his front-line investigative experience, Nick has assisted clients by performing FCPA focused pre- acquisition transaction due diligence and advising on anti-bribery and corruption (AB&C) and FCPA risk assessment and mitigation, internal control enhancement and compliance monitoring.

He has international experience providing in-county compliance-related consulting and investigative services and managing multi-jurisdictional compliance-related service teams that span the Asia Pacific, Africa, European Union, Eastern Europe, Mexico, Middle East and South America.