Forensic Services

The pioneers of forensic profession in India

Powered by technology-driven forensic intelligence and analytics, we help you build resilient strategies to protect value, build trust and create opportunities for your business to emerge stronger.

How we can help

  • Engagement experience of over 2500+ engagements in India
  • Partner group with 100+ person years of forensic experience
  • Handled some of the most complex investigations in India
  • 350+ professionals across seven offices
  • Originators of innovative forensic technology solutions for proactive fraud risk monitoring
  • Sector experience drawn from a pool of multi-disciplinary professionals, such as fraud examiners, forensic accountants, MBAs and engineers
  • Experience of managing projects in 50+ countries
  • 1000+ person years of collective forensic experience across India and abroad
  • Innovative proactive technology solutions: PRIMS and PRUDENCE
Experienced Innovators

Experienced Innovators

Experienced Innovators

Pioneers

Thought leaders

Thought leaders

Forensic Technology Labs at Mumbai and Gurgaon

Forensic Technology Labs at Mumbai and Gurgaon

Centre of Excellence in Kolkata

Centre of Excellence in Kolkata
We can protect you against economic crime, financial and reputational loss

We can protect you against economic crime, financial and reputational loss

  • Combat threats to your brand and bottom line
  • Assess global risks to your business integrity, reputation and brand
  • Gauge potential political risks in emerging markets and new territories
  • Help you navigate high-risk environments
  • Promote ethical business practices
  • Provide investigation support
  • Minimise losses from fraudulent / corrupt acts
We can help you manage crisis

We can help you manage crisis

  • Provide expert support, combined with prompt action
  • Help differentiate between truth and rumour
  • Prepare for, respond to, and emerge stronger from difficult situations
We can help you set a standard in regulatory compliance

We can help you set a standard in regulatory compliance

  • Build productive working relationships with regulatory bodies
  • Meet domestic and international standards on compliance
  • Update, refine and streamline compliance measures
  • Meet internal and external reporting obligations
  • Address the risk of corporate and personal liabilities
We can protect you against economic crime, financial and reputational loss

We can help you proactively monitor risk

  • Continuous monitor of risks and controls in business processes
  • Provide strategic insights through inside-out and outside-in perspective and analytics on-the-go
  • Provide early warning signs of fraud risks through advanced analytics
We can help you manage crisis

We can help you protect data

  • Reduce the risk involved in handling / managing sensitive data
  • Train your staff to handle sensitive information better
  • Protect you against cyber-attacks and security breaches
  • Help you in efficient incident handling

How PwC can help

Our Forensics specialists help clients protect business value and recover from crises.

With decades of extensive industry experience supporting organisations through critical challenges, our teams of professionals provide concrete, actionable advice to design and guide strategy. Advanced technology powers a suite of proven tools and services. Forensics specialists and analysts apply battle-tested skills and knowledge.

The results: Recovery. Resilience. Opportunity.

Prepare
How PwC can help

We help you reduce the risk of fraud, economic crime and disputes, protecting your business from financial and reputational damage.

Respond
How PwC can help

A crisis can cause enormous risk to your brand, your people, your relationships — and your bottom line. We respond with speed and conviction to address the threat and help prevent further damage.

Emerge
How PwC can help

Managed well, a crisis can help your business develop immunity. We work with you to recover from current crises and to enhance your ability to learn and improve after an unplanned event.

What we do

Prepare. Respond. Emerge – from crisis and unplanned events. 

Forensic services

 

Global intelligence

  • Pre and post-investment integrity due diligence
  • Senior management integrity due diligence
  • Covert investigations or consented site visits
  • Social and political risk mapping and assessments
  • Background verification
  • Vendor due-diligence
  • Asset tracing
  • Digital intelligence services
  • Brand protection services
  • Mystery shopping

Corporate investigation services

  • Internal, third party, anti-bribery, incident response retainers
  • Regulatory issues
  • Whistleblower investigations
  • eDiscovery and managed review services

Fraud risk management

  • Code of conduct development
  • Whistleblower policy management
  • Entity and process level fraud risk reviews
  • Fraud awareness training
  • Anti-bribery and corruption compliance

Dispute advisory services

  • Expert testimony
  • Quantification of damages and claim preparation
  • Rebuttal and defence of claims
  • Privileged consulting
  • Document management (eDiscovery)

Fraud analytics

  • Advance and predictive fraud analytics
  • Forensic unstructured analytics
  • Continuous fraud monitoring solution development, optimization and validation
  • Financial crime analytics
  • Sanctions/client screening transaction monitoring lookbacks
  • Fraud strategy design and implementation support

Financial crime and compliance

  • Financial crime governance framework design, implementation and optimisation
  • Regulatory reviews and compliances
  • Managed services for financial crime operations

Cyber forensic

  • Cyber analytics
  • Cyber fraud risk assessment
  • Cyber due diligence
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Cyber incidence response
  • Incidence response preparedness
  • Evidence preservation and retention
  • Cyber crime investigations

Crisis management

  • Prepare (crisis preparedness maturity assessments, crisis programme build and enhancements, crisis training)
  • Respond (strategy and governance, integrated response management and crisis coordination, operational response and fact finding)
  • Emerge stronger (recovery strategy, operational remediation + financial restructuring, lessons learned and integration)

STA (physical security)

  • Current state assessment and system design
  • Integrated ST security programme management
  • Incident management and emergency response
  • Strategic security leadership
  • Security audits
  • Training and awareness

Our experience

In-depth experience of working with regulators /unilateral agencies

India

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The biggest regulator in the financial services sector

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The central regulatory body of securities market

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The national agency governing the development of the insurance industry

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The chief regulator of commodity futures markets in India

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The central and foremost investigating police agency in India

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The ministry regulating Indian enterprises in industrial and
services sector

Global

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The domestic intelligence and security service of
the US

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One of the world's leading arbitral institutions based in London, UK

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Leading American association in the field of alternative dispute resolution

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The largest, most representative business council in the world dealing with: dispute resolution, and policy advocacy

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Singapore-based international arbitration institute promoting arbitration as a preferred mode of dispute resolution

Extensive experience in working on large and complex investigations

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Prepared over 6000 corporate intelligence reports

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Solved the biggest issues in India over the last 4 years

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Assisted over 250 companies in fraud risk management and code of conduct compliance engagements

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Conducted some of the largest bribery investigations and FCPA compliance engagements in India

Worked on many ‘headline’ cases covered widely in the press

Processed over 1000 terabytes of unstructured data and analysed over 1 trillion structured data transactions

Our experts
 

What we do

Confront crisis with confidence

Assisting you in evaluating and resolving conflict and disagreement situations

Gathering policies and processes to make data usable for decision-making

PwC’s e-discovery services: Your first line of defence in crisis and litigation

With new and more serious threats on the horizon, we can assist you in minimising and managing your organisation's risks.

Preventing internal and external frauds

Specialised technology solutions for efficiently managing fraud risk

Advisor for precautions and strategies to be adopted to effectively curtail, identify and report financial crime and compliance

Delivering actionable intelligence, not just information

Aiding financial institutions to leverage data and technology in order to create effective, efficient, and long-term analytical solutions.

Your best advisor to help you make informed decisions

Identifying security threats and preparing a mitigation plan for sustenance

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Investigations Consultancy of the Year 2019

We’re honored to be recognised as Investigations Consultancy of the Year 2019 by the Global Investigations Review for our role in a series of high-profile investigations.

Investigations Consultancy of the Year 2019

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Puneet Garkhel

Puneet Garkhel

Partner and Leader, Forensic Services, PwC India

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