He has been appointed as Interim Monitor by the FTC in certain matters regarding contract compliance and was appointed as the monitor in a state matter involving a telecommunications corporation under a deferred prosecution agreement. In a matter before the FTC involving Life Sciences companies, Chuck recently acted as Hold Separate Monitor, and then as ongoing Monitor, and led the work in the U.S. for reporting by the U.K. firm to the European Commission. He is a key team member in a matter before the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China relating to a major technology company, and he leads work in the U.S. to support reporting to MOFCOM.
Charles has advised a multi-national automotive company in evaluating the design and effectiveness of its compliance operations, anti-fraud program, risk analysis and remediation efforts considering the perspective of the U.S. regulatory framework and COSO. As part of this work Charles has assisted the Company in developing self-assessment procedures, templates and responses to inform the Monitor of Company’s current state operations.
Assisted a company regarding a diesel emissions matter, advising on various topics in the implementation and enhancement of remediation efforts in conjunction with settlements with US regulators and implementation of a corporate monitor, including, operational changes, anti-fraud, compliance, and cyber security programs. Assisted in analysis of regulatory requirements, performed risk and controls gap analyses, supported internal and regulatory reporting and provided guidance and support for ad hoc requests and needs.
He has more than 40 years of diversified experience in accounting, investigations and other advisory forensic services dealing with fraud and misconduct, expert testimony, fraud risk management, compliance and monitoring and with counseling entities in a variety of industry sectors in such areas as acquisitions and divestitures and corporate recovery. He has represented clients in numerous industry sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, information, telecommunications, technology, software, insurance, manufacturing and financial services.
His experience includes acting as an arbitrator or assisting counsel in arbitration in various matters dealing with contract disputes, determination of purchase price disputes, determination of EBITDA closing date balance sheet issues, such as inventory valuation, inventory obsolescence, deferred income taxes, accounts receivable, contingent liabilities, valuation of long lived assets, asset classifications, earn out provisions, intangibles and goodwill. Chuck has conducted numerous investigations behalf of companies and regulatory agencies into alleged fraud and misconduct across multiple industry sectors.
In addition, he has assisted an international company regarding matters before U.S. regulators and a corporate monitor, advising on anti-fraud, compliance, and cyber security activities and programs and various topics in the analysis and enhancement of efforts through consent decrees, plea agreement and corporate monitor activities. Activities have included program development, compliance risk and controls gap analyses, analysis of regulatory requirements, assistance with internal and regulatory reporting, and provided guidance and support for ad hoc requests and needs.
