Kunal Gupta

Kunal Gupta is an industry leader with over 12 years of experience in white-collar crime investigations, forensic accounting, transaction diligence, supply chain leakage, asset tracing, compliance and risk consulting. Boards, audit committees and independent directors of large Indian and multinational corporations rely on his advice in their most sensitive matters involving ethics, integrity, fraud, corruption and financial irregularities.

Kunal is a commerce graduate qualified as a Lawyer, a Company Secretary and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He has led complex cross-border and regulator-driven investigations involving the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the UK Serious Fraud Office, multilateral development banks including the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency, and Indian authorities including SEBI, the Enforcement Directorate and the SFIO, for Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms and global law firms. He has served as an independent monitor for a large sanction imposed by the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency, and has led FCPA investigations involving e-discovery review of over one million documents on the Relativity platform.

Beyond investigations, Kunal's expertise lies in integrity due diligence (including enhanced diligence), advising global investors and private equity firms on anti-bribery, ESG and forensic due diligence, designing ethics and compliance frameworks for multinational and Indian companies, and conducting training. He also has extensive experience in ESG investigations, including of workplace misconduct and impropriety, and in advising boards and their independent sub-committees on ESG matters. He assists large corporate houses with pre-employment screening and third-party risk management screening.

He is sought out for independent judgement and discretion in high-stakes, confidential matters, from boardroom crises to multi-jurisdictional enforcement actions.