Mr. Pace also brings to BRG significant anti-corruption experience, most recently supervising the investigation into allegations of widespread corruption in the Chinese operations of a multinational life sciences company; conducting a risk assessment of a global healthcare company’s operations and practices in China; conducting an investigation of alleged FCPA violations in Europe and Argentina for a medical device manufacturer; and leading the FCPA pre-acquisition due diligence in Pakistan, Oman, Bangladesh, Egypt, China, and Indonesia related to the commercial agents of a target company in the oil and gas sector.
Mr. Pace has applied a variety of forensic accounting, investigative, computer forensics, and analytical resources to help solve client problems. Before he joined BRG, in a trade secret matter, his team helped prove that key management at a client subsidiary company had been planning to form a competitor and was illegally influencing buyers in the industry. As a result of his team’s investigation, the client saved approximately $30 million in the form of various payouts.
Mr. Pace regularly helps clients respond to subpoenas and inquiries from regulators and third parties that require collecting, processing, hosting, and reviewing substantial volumes of electronic data, including email, MS Office documents, transactional data from financial systems, and other electronically stored information.
Mr. Pace was previously a senior managing director and the global leader of the Global Risk and Investigations practice at a global business advisory firm. Before that, he was a managing director and co-leader of the Dispute Analysis and Forensics practice at a global professional services firm. He was previously the Chicago office head for a risk solutions firm where, for eight years, he built and led the firm’s investigations, intelligence, and security businesses in the Midwestern United States. Mr. Pace was also a litigator at an international law firm, handling commercial and civil litigation matters, white collar criminal defense cases, and internal investigations. He began his career in 1989 as an Assistant US Attorney in Chicago with the Department of Justice, where he spent five years investigating and prosecuting fraud, racketeering, narcotics, violent crime, and other complex cases.
Mr. Pace was named in The National Law Journal’s Inaugural List of 50 Governance, Risk & Compliance Trailblazers & Pioneers in 2014; in Who’s Who Legal: Forensic and Litigation Consulting Experts in 2016; in Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery Experts in 2015 and 2016; and in Who’s Who Legal: Experts – Forensics & Litigation Consulting – Accountants in 2017.
Mr. Pace has a JD from Northwestern University School of Law and a BS in finance from the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Chicago Crime Commission, American Bar Association, and Federal Bar Association. He is a board member of The Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Services (CARPLS).
Mr. Pace has been a guest lecturer at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management on White Collar Crime.
Employment History
FTI Consulting, Inc.
Senior managing director and global practice leader
2005 – 2018
Alvarez & Marsal
Managing director
2004 – 2005
Kroll Associates, Inc.
Senior managing director
1996 – 2004
Jenner & Block
Litigation
1994 – 1996
US Attorney’s Office, Chicago
Assistant U.S. attorney
1989 – 1994
Winston & Strawn
Litigation
1989
