Our valuation experts provide valuation services for financial reporting, tax, investment and risk management purposes.

Kroll Valuation Advisory Services, helps clients fulfill their most complex financial and tax reporting valuation requirements. Using our finance, accounting and tax expertise and knowledge of sophisticated valuation methodologies, we help address critical valuation issues when clients need us most. As a leading provider of independent valuations, we help our clients satisfy regulatory reporting requirements, make confident investment decisions, maximize value and manage risk.

We constantly monitor changing regulations and consistently provide input to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, International Accounting Standards Board and other regulatory bodies as they develop implementation guidance and new financial reporting rules with valuation implications. We also perform tax valuations, transfer pricing and related consulting in accordance with the regulations and guidance established by the Internal Revenue Service and other global taxing authorities.

We work with our clients to ensure that auditors, regulators and other key stakeholders understand our valuation methodologies and conclusions and assist with responses to any comment letters received.

Our professionals have the expertise to value any type of asset, liability, business or equity interest, including alternative assets and illiquid investments. From intangible assets, including trade names and patented technology, and tangible assets such as real estate and fixed assets, to investments in privately held businesses and complex derivatives, we can satisfy all your valuation needs. Our size and scale allow us to bring deep industry and functional specialization to every engagement, recognizing that value drivers, assumptions and appropriate valuation techniques may vary vastly among industries.

• Valuation Services
• Alternative Asset Advisory
• Real Estate Advisory Group
• Tax Services
• Transfer Pricing
• Fixed Asset Advisory Services

Kroll partners with clients to stay ahead of regulatory and reputational risks associated with ethics and compliance obligations around the world. We deploy a market-leading portfolio of enhanced due diligence services and technology solutions, with a focus on anti-bribery and corruption (AB&C) and anti-money laundering (AML), to assist clients with Know Your Customer (KYC) initiatives, third-party due diligence, M&A transactions, IPOs and supply chain due diligence.

Our teams draw on open-source resources and global human intelligence to perform enhanced due diligence, producing reports and action items tailored to each client's needs.​

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Our solutions help clients:

Meet global regulatory and legal requirements. We help ensure compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), USA Patriot Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and UK Bribery Act regulations.

Mitigate risks, fines and reputational damage. We help identify and mitigate third-party and transactional, business and reputational risks before they develop into larger issues or trigger fines.

Manage third-party risk. We research reputations; environmental, social and governance (ESG); and cyber and financial records related to existing and potential relationships, including joint ventures, customers and partners, against sanctions, government watch lists, social media and other applicable databases.

Respond to regulatory reviews and investigations. We help clients prepare for and respond to regulatory reviews and investigations. We also can undertake reviews at the appointment of regulatory authorities.

Become or stay compliant. We help clients understand the practical frameworks, policies and procedures, systems and controls, and technologies they need to stay compliant with current and evolving regulations.

Increase peace of mind. Our researchers manage cases from start to finish, conducting extensive internet, database and media research into a company and its principals to assess backgrounds, status, credentials, professional certifications, legitimacy and reputation.

Explore Compliance and Regulation

• Anti-Money Laundering
• Financial Services Compliance and Regulation
• Compliance Risk and Diligence
• Monitorships
• Security Risk Management
• Crypto and Digital Asset Solutions

Kroll provides comprehensive corporate finance, investment banking and restructuring services to investors, asset managers, companies and lenders at all stages of a company’s lifecycle. Our services span buy- and sell- side M&A, restructuring, claims and noticing agent services, issuer services, fairness and solvency opinions, ESOP/ERISA advisory, financial sponsor coverage, private capital markets – debt advisory and comprehensive due diligence.

Our practice has longstanding relationships with the most active capital providers and asset managers in the market. This allows us to deliver timely and strategic solutions to our clients. We are independent and trusted by the world’s largest asset managers, companies, law firms and lenders. We pride ourselves on our global reputation for technical and industry expertise with a broad platform to assist clients in managing complex risk or growth opportunities.

How We Can Help

• Buy-side and Sell-side M&A
• Restructuring
• Claims and Noticing Agent Services
• Issuer Services
• Fairness and Solvency Opinions
• Comprehensive Due Diligence

Explore Corporate Finance and Restructuring

• Buy-side and Sell-side M&A
• Fairness and Solvency Opinions
• Transaction Advisory Services
• ESOP and ERISA Advisory
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Private Capital Markets – Debt Advisory
• Financial Sponsors Group
• Claims and Noticing Agent Services
• Crypto and Digital Asset Solutions

Manage Cyber Risks Seamlessly with Kroll

Virtually every area of an organization today is digitally interconnected. No matter where, when or how you need help, Kroll is the cyber security services partner to call first, with industry and technical experts, unique insight and trailblazing technology.

Beyond the risks of accidental loss of sensitive information or malicious actor threats, Kroll experts also look at cyber security through the lens of “unintended consequences.” From system upgrades or a move to the cloud … to applications meant to improve the customer experience … and to integral third-party relationships, one misstep can cascade into cyber attack, wire fraud, ransomware, data breaches and more; not to mention regulatory action, civil litigation and reputational damage. That’s why we’ve structured our practice to deliver end-to-end cybersecurity solutions quickly and seamlessly, anywhere in the world.

Global, End-to-end Cyber Security Services

Kroll experts provide rapid response to more than 3,200 cyber incidents of all types annually. We help countless more clients with litigation support (including expert witness services); managed detection and response services for both active threats and as an integral part of network security; notification solutions, including multilingual call center support; and proactive services, including general and threat-focused risk assessments, response planning, tabletop exercises and more. With years of public and private sector experience and law enforcement service, our cyber security experts can provide invaluable leadership at any point in the cyber risk continuum.

Our experts are able to deliver best-in-class network, endpoint and cloud security through our managed detection and response solution, Kroll Responder. Responder handles every step, with 24x7 managed detection and response services fueled by threat hunting and superior incident response.

Our collaborative team culture ensures you always benefit from the latest threat intelligence, best practices and technological advancements for every challenge, start to finish. Kroll is also a preferred/approved cyber security vendor for more than 50 cyber insurance carriers, including some of the largest underwriters in the world, and offers client-friendly retainers that cover both incident response and proactive services.

Explore Cyber Risk

• Cyber Governance and Risk
• Incident Response and Litigation Support
• System Assessments and Testing
• Notification, Call Centers and Monitoring
• Managed Security Services
• Kroll Cyber Partner Program
• Incident Response Retainer

We harness our team’s global subject matter expertise and technology solutions to help clients address ESG challenges and create sustainable value and growth.

ESG criteria, regulation and investing across all industries are evolving rapidly to underscore a more sustainable and equitable future for all. As part of this, companies are actively aligning their purpose, strategies and practices to improve the environment, promote social good and create long-term value. Stakeholders including investors, employees, customers, suppliers, regulators, asset managers and legal professionals are taking greater interest in companies’ ESG approach, track record and credentials to inform their engagement decisions.

Kroll provides an extensive range of advisory support and technology solutions to assist clients to achieve their ESG goals and navigate the changing landscape. Companies engage us throughout various stages of their business lifecycle and ESG journey, leveraging our diverse team’s extensive global experience and insights in governance and risk to:

• Improve environmental and social outcomes
• Embed ESG across governance and areas of business
• Comply with regulation and disclosure reporting
• Develop ESG policies
• Align goals to standards and frameworks
• Increase returns
• Reduce risk and volatility
• Deliver sustainable value and growth

How Kroll Can Help

Our comprehensive ESG advisory and technology services include:

Policies and Procedures

• Translating purpose, criteria and the investment strategy into policies and procedures
• Design of policies and procedures that align to the ESG investment strategy, comply with ESG regulations and adhere to ESG frameworks
• Ongoing advice, support and technology to comply with evolving ESG regulations
• Develop ESG Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Screening and High-Level Due Diligence

• Cost-effective screening procedures (negative, positive, and thematic) to highlight red flags with prospective acquisitions, customers, and suppliers
• Collating basic ESG-related data on portfolios/divisions and investment companies
• Developing ESG due diligence questionnaires

In-Depth Due Diligence

• In-depth ESG due diligence in accordance with the major ESG frameworks - we utilize the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholders Capitalism metrics, industry-specific tailoring utilizing Sustainability Accounting Standards Board standards and measurement principles from the Value Balancing Alliance
• ESG-related due diligence reviews of potential targets or investment companies
• Reviews of ESG disclosures in preparation for sell-side due diligence

Deep-Dive Investigations

• Supply chain risk assessments
• Human rights violation reviews
• Culture audits
• Integrity and reputational due diligence
• Carbon audits

Value Creation Opportunities

• Identifying ESG-related value drivers that are built into your value creation agenda
• Strategies and plans for delivering value creation
• Monitoring against value creation strategy

On-Going Monitoring and Reporting

• Proactive, automated monitoring of portfolios/divisions utilizing cloud-based technology for easy access and digestion of key ESG metrics
• Early warning alerts using sentiment analysis
• Peer and industry benchmarking
• Cyber security and incident response
• Investor-grade ESG disclosures
• Monitoring KPIs

Real Estate Advisory

• Support to identify actions for assessing the ESG performance of real estate investments
• Support in the management, development and ongoing assessment of real estate funds and single assets to enhance ESG qualities of buildings and their management

Expert Services

• Support for ESG disputes including collating data and evidence, working with lawyers and funders throughout the case, determining causation, analysing data or assessing damages, and acting as expert witnesses
• ESG advice and insights across the lifecycle of capital projects and assets including defining ESG objectives for business strategies and projects, integrating ESG assurance into projects, assessing organizational ESG performance, developing ESG investment strategies, ESG benefit realisation, and developing internal capability

At Kroll, we believe ESG and good citizenship means protecting our environment, empowering our people to make positive change, promoting inclusivity and diversity, and operating with transparency and good governance.

Kroll’s Investigations and Disputes team helps our clients stay ahead of complex demands related to independent expert analysis, testimony, advice and intelligence in complex investigations, litigation and projects globally. We help clients manage and mitigate risk throughout the business lifecycle by combining investigative experience with cutting-edge technology to deliver nuanced analysis and guidance, meaningful data insights and actionable intelligence.

Our solutions include :

• Complex commercial litigation and international arbitration support
• Compliance and risk support
• Construction delay and quantum disputes expertise
• Data insights and forensics analysis
• Fraud, corruption and investigation and enforcement action advice
• Intellectual property advisory, investigation and dispute consulting
• Intelligence, transactions and due diligence advice and support
• Regulatory, accounting and economic disputes support
• Technology delay and disruption disputes expertise

Streamline your complex administrative needs with Kroll

When professional reputations and millions of dollars are on the line, clients turn to Kroll to simplify complex capital events by taking over the administrative burden, providing comprehensive capital structure services and managing payments, risk and more.

With a combination of highly experienced industry experts, innovative and proprietary technology platforms, and unrivaled data security measures, we provide scalable business solutions that span our clients’ full transaction life cycle. With processes that are designed for efficiency and accuracy, our approach ensures the highest standard of quality across all the industries we serve.​

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Global, end-to-end services

Kroll’s Business Services team works with companies and their advisors to provide technology-enabled solutions and expertise for the administration of corporate restructurings, legal settlements, capital structure transactions, agency and trustee services, and other business and legal support needs. We are the only provider able to deliver global turnkey services and unlimited scalability for mission-critical, complex matters.

Explore Business Services

• Restructuring Administration
• Issuer Services
• Settlement Administration
• Notice Media Solutions
• Agency and Trustee Services
• Business Support Solutions
• Crypto and Digital Asset Solutions

Efficiently capture, manage and analyze investment data at scale so your firm can perform timely, accurate and auditable valuations across your private portfolios. What Sets Us Apart?

• Decades of expertise
• We’ve taken the insights and feedback gathered over decades from thousands of valuations for the world’s top asset managers to infuse our platform with unmatched intelligence.
• Flexible and adaptable
• Our platform enhances your existing workflows; it doesn’t attempt to replace them. We recognize that software can’t substitute the complex and unique models you rely on.

Jumpstart your forensic investigations by collecting and processing forensically useful artifacts within minutes with Kroll's Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE). KAPE draws directly on our experts’ unique frontline insight from complex cyber incidents and performing digital forensics and evidence collection for thousands of companies.

Kroll’s Managed Compliance Software is a cost-effective and efficient technology that embeds Kroll’s global knowledge into financial services firms’ compliance programs, guiding you through all stages of the regulatory life cycle.

Proactively detect fraud and corruption with Kroll’s investigative and compliance expertise through an AI-driven, easy-to-use software powered by artificial intelligence.

Leveraging AI with deep human expertise, Resolver provides comprehensive visibility into enterprise-wide risks, enabling prioritized, timely, and agile responses. Go beyond tracking and managing risk to transforming complex data into clear insights and highly effective mitigating actions. By harnessing our integrated capabilities and risk intelligence platform, businesses of all sizes can reduce crises, recover swiftly, and emerge stronger — protecting their operations, brand, and bottom line.

Cost of Capital Navigator is a global cost of capital tool and data delivery platform. Our tool guides users through the process of developing global cost of capital estimates, a key component of any valuation analysis. The product suite is comprised of five subscription modules each offering three annual subscription levels: Basic, Pro and Enterprise.

Reliably identify, assess and mitigate threats before they harm your firm with Kroll's guided risk assessment questionnaire, developed by our in-house security risk management experts.

The Alternatives Risk Assessment Platform provides a unified and in-depth perspective on fund performance, covering financial, operational, environmental, social and reputational dimensions. It empowers asset allocators to manage investments holistically, mitigate risks and optimize capital returns.