Redfern Forensics
Forensic accounting & litigation support

We trace hidden assets, quantify damages, and unwind fraud — then turn the findings into testimony that holds up under cross-examination. Our partners have been retained on more than 600 matters and have never had a report excluded for methodology.

Retained by litigators, regulators, and boards across North America

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Practice areas

Every matter thatturns on the money.

Plaintiff or defence, civil or regulatory, boardroom or courtroom — we are retained for the question that decides the case: where did the money go, and how much was lost?

Asset tracing & recovery

We follow funds through shell entities, nominee accounts, and offshore layers until they resolve to a beneficial owner — and we document every hop so the trail survives a Mareva motion.

Fraud investigation

Embezzlement, kickback schemes, channel-stuffed revenue, cooked financial statements. We reconstruct what the perpetrator spent months trying to erase.

Damages quantification

Lost profits, business valuation, and disgorgement models built on assumptions we can defend line by line — not numbers reverse-engineered to a target.

Expert testimony

Expert witnesses who teach the trier of fact, concede the fair point, and do not break on cross. The calm voice in the room is usually ours.

Matrimonial & shareholder disputes

Income reconstruction and hidden-asset analysis for high-conflict separations and oppression claims — where one side has had years to bury the balance.

Regulatory & internal investigations

Quiet, privileged work for audit committees and counsel responding to a regulator — scoped to find the answer before anyone else has to.

Three decades of findings that held

600+
Matters retained
$2.1B
Assets traced & recovered
0
Reports excluded for method
31
Jurisdictions worked
How we work

Built for thecross-examinationthat's coming.

Anyone can produce a number. We produce a number that an opposing expert cannot dismantle — because the method, the data, and the chain of custody are documented from the first engagement letter.

Defensible methodology

Every model follows accepted forensic and valuation standards, with assumptions disclosed and stress-tested against the alternatives before opposing counsel does it for us.

Chain of custody, intact

Source documents are imaged, hashed, and logged at intake, so the evidentiary record is unbroken from production to the witness stand.

Plain-English reports

We write so a judge or juror grasps the finding on first reading — conclusions up front, the heavy schedules in an appendix that survives scrutiny.

Exhibits a jury can follow

Transaction timelines and flow-of-funds visuals your trial team can put on a screen, walk a juror through, and defend without an asterisk.

Selected engagements

The matters behind the numbers.

Anonymized to protect privilege. Every figure below was put in front of a court, a tribunal, or a regulator — and stood.

Asset tracing

The vanishing distributorship

$48M routed out of a family business through six nominee entities across four jurisdictions. We rebuilt the path, named the beneficial owner, and supported the Mareva injunction that froze it.

Financial-statement fraud

Revenue that never existed

A pre-acquisition target inflating sales with round-trip invoices. Our reconstruction cut the valuation by 40% and turned a closing into a rescission claim.

Matrimonial

The understated income file

A spouse drawing a modest salary and living on a private company's expense account. Income reconstruction restated true earnings at 3.6x the reported figure.

Regulatory

Disgorgement, quantified

Profits earned on undisclosed related-party trades. We modelled the ill-gotten gain the regulator could actually collect — and defended the number through settlement.

From the bar

Litigators retain us when the case turns on the money.

Their expert was the calmest person in the room during cross. The methodology was airtight and the opposing expert knew it. We settled the next morning.

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Eleanor Harlowe, KC
Partner, Harlowe & Stein LLP

We thought the money was gone. Redfern traced it through three layers we never would have found and handed us an exhibit a jury could actually follow.

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David Ashby
General Counsel, Ashby Regulatory Group

The report read like it was written for the judge, not for us — conclusions up front, every schedule defensible. That is rarer in this field than it should be.

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Priya Calderon
Trustee, Calderon Trust Co.
Engagement models

Engaged the way litigation actually runs.

Most matters begin with a scoping assessment. From there we structure the engagement around the stage your case is in — not a package you'll outgrow by discovery.

Scoping Assessment

Before you commit to litigation.

Fixed fee
  • Conflict check in one business day
  • Document and data feasibility review
  • Preliminary view on tracing or damages
  • Written scope and budget to follow
Most popular

Full Engagement

Investigation through report.

Retainer + hourly
  • Dedicated partner-led team
  • Asset tracing, fraud, or damages analysis
  • Court-ready expert report
  • Trial exhibits and flow-of-funds visuals
  • Privileged, on-demand status updates

Testimony & Rebuttal

When you need an expert on the stand.

Custom
  • Expert witness retention
  • Rebuttal of opposing expert reports
  • Deposition and trial preparation
  • Daubert / Mohan challenge support

What counsel asks first

How fast can you clear conflicts and start?

We run a conflict check within one business day. For active litigation, we can have a partner reviewing documents that same week and a preliminary view shortly after.

Will your report survive a Daubert or Mohan challenge?

Our methodology is built to accepted forensic and valuation standards, with every assumption disclosed and tested. In more than 600 matters, no Redfern report has been excluded for methodology.

Can you work for either side?

Yes. We are retained by plaintiffs and defendants, claimants and respondents, regulators and boards. Our findings follow the evidence, not the party that engaged us — and that is precisely why they hold.

How do you protect privilege and chain of custody?

Source materials are imaged, hashed, and logged from intake. We work under counsel's privilege where appropriate and maintain an unbroken evidentiary record all the way to the stand.

Do you only take large matters?

No. We scope each engagement to the dispute in front of us. The fixed-fee scoping assessment exists precisely so a smaller matter gets a proportionate starting point and an honest read.

Bring us the matter that turns on the money.

Send the facts under privilege. We will run a conflict check, tell you candidly whether we can help, and scope the work before you spend a dollar on analysis.