About The Instructor
Ramon de Legorburu is a Managing Director at EY in the Forensic & Integrity Services practice with over 20 years of professional experienceMr. de Legorburu specializes in providing forensic investigative and dispute services, including financial damages and lost profit calculations and expert testimony. Mr. de Legorburu has investigated allegations stemming from suspected FCPA violations, management fraud, and financial statement misrepresentation in the construction, manufacturing, financial services, transportation, healthcare, consumer goods industries and many others, in foreign jurisdictions, including Latin America, Europe and Africa. Mr. de Legorburu's experience also includes assisting financial services clients during the acquisition of foreign entities, in detecting and deterring elaborate money-laundering schemes at the target entities internationally and assessing the financial institutions compliance programs in detecting and deferring anti-money laundering activities. Having been a former financial statement auditor, Mr. de Legorburu has also assisted in the defense of public accounting firms involved in accounting malpractice lawsuits.
Mr. de Legorburu has presented in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding a financial statement restatement for a large publicly-traded company and has testified as an expert witness on matters involving economic damages in both depositions and trial.
He is a Certified Public Accountant in the States of Florida and Georgia. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
He was the co-author of Punitive Damages: the Role of the Expert Witness, published in the South Florida Legal Guide – 2009
Mr. de Legorburu is fluent in Spanish and partially-fluent in Portuguese.