Clients who have benefited from TRCI's litigation support include prominent international law firms, senior managers of banks and financial institutions, traders, operations executives, and consulting firms. Firms that have called upon TRCI to provide litigation and investigative support services include:

• Coudert Brothers
• Gelderman Securities
• Skadden, Arps, et al
• Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering
• Wilkie, Farre
• Kroll Private Investigators

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The firm has also provided confident services in conjunction with other accounting and management consulting companies.

Experience

TRCI has provided investigative services and litigation support to the legal and banking industries for some of the most widely reported institutional trading cases. TRCI has proven valuable to litigation cases because its principals have been on all sides of traditional industry perspectives: trading -vs.- management, front -vs.- back office, financial service providers -vs.- end-users. This experience gives them unique insights into a case, and it enables them to uncover the error, omission, root cause, and, when necessary, the culprit. TRCI also has the ability to communicate its findings to a jury in an unintimidating and lucid manner.

The firm supports its legal clients by conducting:

• Independent investigations
• Providing confidential consulting services
• Offering expert testimony as needed

Selected Engagements

• Served as a confidential consultant for a fortune 100 corporation in a high profile case involving questionable purchases of foreign exchange (FX) and derivative products from a major American bank.
• Testified as an expert in a binding arbitration involving a large (3/4 of a billion dollar) foreign exchange transaction between a major European bank and a fortune 500 corporation.
• Testified as an expert in a major Federal case involving a conspiracy among several professional traders and brokers.
• Served as a confidential consultant in a case involving trading abuse and fraud; conducted investigations and analysis of trading activity and possible breaches of fiduciary responsibility.
• Testified as an expert in a case involving fraud and potential misappropriation of funds.
• Led a team charged with reviewing abusive trading activities for a private bank. Determined existing risk, made recommendations to management with respect to liquidating positions, developed a tracking system for FX derivative trades with imbedded options, and interacted with regulators to ensure the bank's continued operation.

As a management consultant for a major international management consulting company

• Team member conducting a one-month long derivative product review of a major regional bank. Review was performed at the request of the Board of Directors.
• Conducted an FX Operations review for a major European bank.
• Analyzed and reviewed FX and derivative trading activity of a large Latin American bank for audit team. Mr. Scala uncovered a number of hidden transactions that put the bank at an unsafe and unsound level of financial risk.