Devon Ackerman
Global Head of Incident Response
Cyber Risk
New York
Cryptocurrency Compliance, Risk and Investigation Services
Kroll is the leading global provider of crypto compliance, risk, and investigative services. Since the introduction of the first virtual asset in 2009, Kroll has worked side-by-side with crypto companies, investors, and law enforcement to help them meet their most critical challenges.
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We assist businesses and individuals in need of regulatory guidance, investigations and asset recovery. Our work enables clients to manage risks, enhance anti-money laundering (AML) programs customized for digital asset products, and trace and recover funds involving digital assets.
Our advisory and investigative services are tailored to clients dealing with digital assets in the opaque and evolving regulatory landscape. Using our industry knowledge, technical and analytical skills, proprietary technology tools, and best-in-class assistance from partners, we have a uniquely broad and deep engagement with the crypto ecosphere, both on and off the blockchain.
Our experts have worked with traditional and decentralized finance (DeFi) organizations to evaluate compliance programs, measure and mitigate risks, and manage evolving regulatory environments where there is intense regulatory and media scrutiny.
Kroll’s advantage lies in our careful analysis of the blockchain, our experience in presenting evidence to courts, and the diverse skills of our investigative teams, comprised not only of crypto practitioners but also of open-source specialist investigators, computer forensic experts, intelligence analysts, insolvency practitioners, forensic accountants, and former prosecutors.
Crypto and Digital Asset Services
- We provide our clients and their regulators with the specialized expertise and resources they need to meet their compliance and regulatory requirements.
- Investigation into hacks, frauds, scams and market manipulation by identifying, locating and tracing funds on the blockchain, through mixers and across chains.
- We can help brand and IP rights holders resolve issues in the NFT marketplace and the metaverse with our ability to identify the perpetrators in the real world.
- We offer end-to-end restructuring administration services, noticing and claims management provided by unparalleled experts and innovative technology.
- Kroll’s global resources and cross-industry experience includes all aspects of physical and technical security, countermeasures and information security.
- Cyber security solutions mapped to the Crypto Currency Security Standard (CCSS).
- Drawing upon our extensive subject matter expertise, global research capabilities, and flexible technology tools we provide our clients due diligence and business intelligence solutions.
- Our multi-disciplinary valuation and damages analysis teams combine our expertise with the use and development of sophisticated valuation models to fulfill even the most complex financial reporting, tax requirements, and disputes. We provide Independent analysis and expert witness testimony on the world’s largest and most complex disputes.
- Leveraging advanced data analytics capabilities, the team has a breadth of experience in understanding, deconstructing, and extracting insights from the blockchain, smart contracts and other data sources.
- Our restructuring and insolvency experts secure, protect and return value to creditors of, and provide financial restructuring solutions to, distressed exchanges, trading platforms and companies holding digital assets.
- Our global ODD team provides tailored reviews of crypto and DeFi funds, managers, digital asset counterparties, custodians, and platforms to identify and address operational deficiencies for institutional investors and managers.
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