Rachel Berk

She has 25 years of experience as a leader in providing forensic accounting, financial analysis, expert and consulting services to law firms, boards of directors, and corporate clients.

Ms. Berk specializes in investigations and disputes involving complex accounting issues and financial analysis. She has led dozens of financial crime investigations involving financial statement fraud, asset misappropriation, accounting irregularities, Ponzi schemes, and bribery and corruption. She is often called upon to lead investigations relating to self-dealing, diversion and misuse of funds to recreate financial histories, and conduct flow of funds analyses to identify ultimate beneficiaries and quantify the misappropriation of funds.

She is a testifying expert and has also presented evidence as a fact witness in cross-border matters involving allegations of fraud and asset misappropriation. Ms. Berk has also led litigation support matters and has performed fraud risk and fraud program assessments for global financial institutions. She has worked with clients across a broad spectrum of industries and spent several years conducting investigations within Chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcies.

Ms. Berk received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, certified insolvency and restructuring advisor, and is certified in financial forensics. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors. Ms. Berk has taught numerous seminars on accounting, fraud, internal controls, and SEC topics for corporate clients and law firms. She has also written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Law360, and Law.com.

Prior to joining CRA, Ms. Berk was a senior manager in the Forensic practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, where she focused on leading client investigations related to asset misappropriation, bribery and corruption, and financial statement fraud, as well as conducting shadow investigations on behalf of the firm’s audit clients.