Brandon J. Engel, CPA, CFE

Brandon J. Engel, CPA, CFE is a forensic accountant with over 10 years of experience in over 200 forensic accounting cases involving complex business litigation. Brandon’s forensic experience includes conducting financial investigations in connection with civil and criminal matters. Brandon has provided the following forensic accounting services to top law firms, private and public companies, non-profits, government agencies, and local police departments:

Brandon’s experience and expertise is highlighted in his skills and ability to investigate financial records and uncover discrepancies, hidden transactions, misstatements, fraud, and misappropriations. As a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Brandon possesses specialized knowledge in investigating a variety of complex financial fraud schemes including international money laundering, embezzlement, fraudulent transfers, alter ego, and misappropriation of assets. As a highly skilled forensic investigator, Brandon also has specialized knowledge and experience in tracing funds in accordance with established legal and financial principles.

Brandon has conducted over 50 fraud investigations involving a wide variety of fraudulent schemes. Brandon’s experience and expertise in conducting fraud investigations is illustrated in his tracing of approximately $20 million of fraudulent funds that were laundered through over 150 U.S., Swiss, and Korean bank accounts to real estate, luxury cars and Swiss bank accounts. Brandon has also assisted a local Los Angeles police detective in uncovering and documenting financial fraud and embezzlement.
Brandon’s experience includes conducting fraud investigations in connection with the following:

Brandon has prepared over 100 economic damage calculations in a wide variety of litigation matters and industries. Brandon’s experience and expertise includes developing complex damage models that are consistent with established legal principles and able to withstand the scrutiny of the court. Brandon is also uniquely skilled in creating demonstrative graphs and charts for trial that are designed to make complex business transactions easily understandable.
Brandon’s extensive forensic experience in calculating economic damages for both plaintiffs and defendants includes the following:

Brandon has been involved in a variety of business valuation engagements among a broad array of industries. Brandon’s business valuation expertise includes conducting various business valuation approaches including market analysis, capitalization of earnings, discounted cash flow, book value, liquidation value, public company guideline method, and other generally accepted valuation methods. Brandon’s experience includes business valuations in connection with the following:

Brandon’s bankruptcy litigation experience covers a broad spectrum of bankruptcy matters. Specifically, in connection with bankruptcy fraudulent transfers, Brandon has extensive experience in tracing fraudulent funds applying a variety of tracing methods in accordance with established legal and financial principles. Brandon’s bankruptcy litigation experience includes a variety of engagements involving the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting from California State University, Northridge
• Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
• Member of the California Society of CPA’s.