Alvarez & Marsal boosts disputes & investigations team with senior members
Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal has boosted its Australian disputes & investigations team with a trio of senior recruits.
Joining former Deloitte partner Peter Morris at Alvarez & Marsal are fellow Melbourne-based senior director pair Angela Clancy and Michelle Jones, who have also both served as directors at Deloitte as well as respectively PwC and KPMG.
Morris meanwhile crosses after a three-year stint as an executive director with Victoria’s public sector-focussed independent anti-corruption commission (IBAC), bringing altogether four decades of fraud and law enforcement experience.
In highlighting the trio’s credentials, Alvarez & Marsal said all three have led complex risk and compliance investigations into bribery, corruption, fraud, harassment issues as well as other serious workplace misconduct across a wide range of industries, including among others the financial services, mining, agriculture, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and government sectors.
“As clients continue to wrestle with the ever increasing incidents of fraud and corruption, Angela, Michelle, and Peter’s in-depth knowledge is critical for investigating allegations of fraud and corruption and mitigating risk,” said Australian disputes & investigations practice head Owain Stone. “Their hires enhance our offering and add value to clients seeking expertise in times of high stress.”
Peter Morris spent more than a decade with the AFP before switching to KPMG’s forensics practice, where he spent a further seventeen years before joining the partnership of PPB up until its sale to PwC. From there, he joined the partnership of Deloitte, and has for the past three years led IBAC’s operations division, which includes investigations, surveillance, hi-tech crime, and intelligence.
Angela Clancy likewise spent seven years at PPB in Melbourne – via earlier stints with HLB Mann Judd and RGL Forensics (now Baker Tilly) and Grant Thornton in the US – but continued on as a director at PwC before later crossing to Deloitte for three years until the end of 2020. Most recently, she has been overseeing her own forensic accounting social enterprise Lowana Advisory.
Michelle Jones meanwhile crosses directly from Deloitte, where she has spent the best part of a decade, including as a forensics and financial crime director since the start of 2021. A graduate of Adelaide university, Jones previously spent three years with A&M in London, as well as time at the UK branches of KPMG and RSM, with an earlier career start at KPMG acquisition Ferrier Hodgson.
“As the latest demonstration of A&M’s commitment to Southeast Asia and Australia (SEAA), these new joiners signal our ability to respond to evolving market demand along with showcasing the firm’s ability to attract targeted talent in response to increased expectations for organisations to manage fraud, corruption and misconduct,” stated regional managing director Utsav Garg.
