Andrew M. Keith
Director, Investigations
Just a few years ago, the corporations with truly global operations were typically the largest enterprises – the ones with billions in assets, thousands of employees and portfolios of risk that spanned dozens of countries, regional markets and international jurisdictions.
That's no longer true. Now even mid-sized companies with narrowly-scoped national footprints are intimately connected, directly and indirectly, with the international economy – through supply chains that are global and third-party partners, vendors and customers in countries around the world. And for an increasing number of these entities, managing risk on a number of fronts is virtually impossible without the ability to conduct international investigations in areas such as corporate due diligence, background screening, litigation research and business and competitive intelligence.
Andrew M. Keith excels in these arenas. As a former Director in Kroll's Business Intelligence and Investigations practice, he specialized in business risk management engagements that included asset searches, pre-employment background investigations, litigation support and pre-transactional due diligence. Before working at Kroll, Keith served as a Director in FTI's Forensic Litigation Consulting division, where he managed investigative, business intelligence and litigation support engagements across international and domestic jurisdictions.
Earlier in his career, Keith served as bureau manager and news desk editor in Time Magazine's Moscow and Chicago bureaus. In this capacity, he researched and reported on feature and hard news stories for Time, Inc. publications in Russia and the Midwest and managed the international magazine's Moscow and Midwest bureaus.
Keith is a fluent Russian speaker and reader. In the 1990's – before and during his work at Time Magazine – he spent the better part of the decade in the region abutting the North Caucasus and later in Moscow.
Keith's casework has included due diligence and background investigations of public and private companies and their principals, asset investigations, investigative support for clients involved in defamation claims and other litigation, theft of trade secrets and other forms of unlawful competition, and corporate contest matters. Keith also specializes in facets of regulatory compliance reviews and internal audits of companies in the financial services sector.
He graduated from the University of Missouri – Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies and also holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
