Birzeit Consulting
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L. Burke Files
Mr. Files is a widely recognized expert in the area of financial investigations and due diligence. He currently serves as an advisory board for the Association of Due Diligence Association.
He has authored numerous articles as well as books on the subject. Additionally, he has presented seminars on financial investigation subjects for many years in many countries.
Mr. Files was a partner in a regional consulting firm specializing in business, financial and securities consulting. He also served as the Director of Corporate Finance for an investment banking company. Additionally, Mr. Files was a commodities specialist for Oppenheimer/Rouse.
Among the publications he has contributed to or appeared in:
Chief Executive Officer ; IFC Review; Royal Gazette; Cayman Today; Fox News;Wired UK; El Cosario;European Business; NPR Market Watch; Bloomberg; USA Today ; Associated Press.
In addition to numerous published articles, Mr. Files is the author of five books including:
The multiple award winning Due Diligence For the Financial Professional, 2nd Edition, Publisher Aegis Journal 2010. The book Won 2nd Place book for New Titles in Business and Finance - RDFA. and Won 3rd Place Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2011.
Training manuals:
Corporate Financial Investigative Techniques
OPSEC Audit and Review Process
Skip Tracing and its Methodology
Entities for Businesses and Persons
Mr. Files has also appeared on television and radio in the US and some select international locations.
He is a sought after speaker and has presented at many private governmental agencies on topics of Offshore Finance, Anti Money Laundry, Securities Fraud, Due Diligence, and Intellectual Property and Critical Information.
Mr. Files and his firm are regularly sought out international investigator for those cases that bedevil the desktop practitioner. He is the practice section leader on due diligence and asset location investigations and for intellectual property and critical information investigations and has been the case manager on fraud investigations ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to over 2 billion dollars.
Using a wide array of conventional and unconventional techniques, Mr. Files unravels the money trail to find the assets for recovery.
The purpose of Due Diligence is to avoid ever having to call Mr. Files to recover assets taken by fraud, but rather to call him to help prevent fraud and understand the opportunities presented.
Mr. Files conduct investigations in the United States, Eastern Europe, Central and South America and China.
