Didier Lavion

Background

About Didier Lavion

Mr. Lavion currently heads BDO’s ABAC/FCPA practice within the Forensics Legal, Monitorship and Investigations practice. He has been in the Litigation and Forensic advisory business for a combined total of 32 years of forensics experience in big 4 consulting practices. He has spent his entire professional career in the forensics industry starting as a staff and ultimately as a partner for over 18 of his years in the business. He has been a key figure in building practices from their infancy to large profitable practices. Over the years he has specialized in anti-corruption, AML, forensic, and helping clients navigate complex regulatory circumstances and guiding them through investigations and compliance remediation. Project leadership experiences include, fraud and financial crimes investigations, AML look-backs, ICC arbitrations and compliance reviews in both financial services and multiple other industries. In addition, Mr. Lavion has led large scale, multinational investigations, e-discovery, data analytics and predictive modeling projects and has extensive experience in reporting to the United States DOJ, FBI, SEC, FRB and FINRA as well as other US and foreign regulators on behalf of his clients. Mr. Lavion has also led the assessment of anti-corruption compliance programs for both multinational corporations and governments both reactively and proactively by assisting government in enhancing their anti-corruption capabilities. In addition, he has been very active in the Global Anticorruption community. In his various roles, he has been a Board delegate for his firm at the Word Economic Forum's (WEF) Partnership Against Corruption Initiative over a ten year period for his firm as a WEF member and as a recognized Fraud expert and has sat on the United Nations Global Compact working group on the 10th Principle Against Corruption. In addition, has contributed substantively to highly reviewed Fraud publications. While at PwC, Mr. Lavion Chaired the 2018 Global Economic Fraud and Crime Survey and also authored the US Supplement of PwC's Global Economic Crime Surveys released in 2016, 2014 and 2011.