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D. Ray Strong, a director in LECG's Salt Lake City office, is a former partner of Neilson Elggren LLP, and a former manager in Arthur Andersen's global corporate finance practice. He is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, and certified insolvency and restructuring advisor with over 13 years experience providing investigative accounting, bankruptcy, and litigation services.
Mr. Strong has been involved in numerous bankruptcy and insolvency matters including court appointments as estate manager, examiner, receiver, accountant to the trustee, accountant to the creditors' committee, and accountant to the debtor. His experience includes the liquidation of assets, investigation of alleged insider dealings, liquidation and substantive consolidation analyses, plan feasibility analyses, plan preparation, investigation and pursuit of preferences, fraudulent transfers, and other causes of action, solvency analyses, and claims resolution. He has also operated various companies in bankruptcy and receivership proceedings and provided services that include analyzing operating viability, developing operational and cash flow forecasts and projections, restructuring accounting and IT functions, analyzing and implementing internal controls, resolving employee retention and benefit issues, identifying and resolving insurance and environmental issues, restructuring marketing and business development efforts, implementing cash flow and cash collateral management systems, developing cost control measures, reconstructing financial data and information, performing various financial analyses and investigations, and managing day-to-day operating and accounting activity.
Mr. Strong has provided civil and criminal litigation support services including the investigation of fraud and mismanagement, tracing of funds, partner disputes, lost profit damage analyses, breach of contract damage analyses, economic analyses, insurance claims, and personal injury damages.
Mr. Strong has extensive training and experience investigating fraud and mismanagement including financial statement fraud, embezzlement, Ponzi schemes, check kiting, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, inventory schemes, and payroll schemes. He has also given presentations and seminars relating to various fraud, bankruptcy, and accounting topics. | 