Quynh Tran
Quynh Tran has significant experience in litigation services including dispute resolutions, litigation matters, and fraud and forensic services.
She has managed engagements that have required financial modeling, damage calculation, damage evaluation, and forensic accounting. Specifically, she has experience in:
- Forensic and Investigative Accounting
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- Directed internal investigations into allegations of anti-corruption activities (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations); asset misappropriations; misconduct involving related parties, vendors, employees, and executive/board members; conflicts of interest; Ponzi schemes; and other related misconduct. Key tasks included conducting detailed analyses of historical accounting records, ensuring compliance with books and records provisions, identifying red flags, testing transactions, tracing assets and flow of funds, evaluating internal controls, reviewing intercompany transactions, and conducting interviews with relevant witnesses.
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- Advised clients including regulatory agencies, counsel, corporations, receivers, and creditors’ committees on allegations of audit negligence and violations of accounting, auditing, and professional standards. Tasks included reviewing and analyzing audit work papers, financial statements, general ledgers, corporate policies, and other financial and business records; evaluating significant accounting estimates; interpreting relevant accounting and auditing standards; and assessing audit procedures and related documentation.
- Complex Commercial Disputes
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- Led complex commercial damages matters across diverse industries. Leveraged financial models to project past and potential future damages in commercial litigation and arbitration matters, including breach of contract, lost profits, wrongful termination, and business interruption. Tasks included conducting detailed analyses of historical and projected financial data, performing business valuations, reviewing contractual obligations, substantiating costs, and examining underlying supporting documentation.
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- Calculated economic damages related to various intellectual property matters, including lost profits, reasonable royalties, and unjust enrichment. Represented plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving allegations of patent infringement, copyright infringement, and theft of trade secrets. Analyses included evaluating Panduit and Georgia-Pacific factors, reviewing business and financial records, assessing sales and cost data, performing market and financial research, analyzing competitor data, and evaluating comparable licenses.
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- Advised clients on various bankruptcy-related matters. Led several high-profile, pre- and post-petition cases that involved assisting counsel to establish arguments and claims against directors and officers, employees, and/or third parties. Tasks included managing large document review teams, interviewing key fact witnesses, and reviewing and analyzing financial evidence to assess claims related to preferences, fraudulent conveyances, solvency, and negligence.
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- Managed post-acquisition dispute matters on behalf of sellers, purchasers, and/or neutral arbiter(s), with a focus on purchase price and working capital disputes. Work included evaluating contract provisions, assessing historical accounting practices and adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), analyzing pre- and post-closing statements and related submissions, assessing claims raised by opposing parties, and responding to inquiries from neutral arbiters.
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- Advised clients on alter-ego and successor liability issues from financial, business, and operational perspectives. Evaluated factual assertions and company-specific factors, including financial dependence, lack of separateness, confusion regarding corporate identity, domination, and control. Additional tasks included analyzing corporate and organizational structures, intercompany transactions, corporate records and formalities, major customers and suppliers, third-party financing activities, and corporate and/or personal guarantees.
Employment History
Navigant Consulting, 2010 – 2012
Disputes and investigations practice, managing consultant
UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc., 2006 – 2010
Forensic, litigation and valuation services, manager
Washington Mutual Bank, 2002 – 2006
Mortgage banker finance, fraud risk manager, AVP
Education
University of St. Thomas
MBA, Accounting, 2005
BBA, Accounting and Management Information Systems, 2005
Professional Affiliations
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Member
Houston Chapter of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Member
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Member
Houston Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Member
The Institute of Internal Auditors, Member
Houston Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Member
National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts, Member
Community/Civic Involvement
Houston FBI Citizens’ Academy Alumni Association, Member
Oak Forest Elementary PTA
- Finance Committee, Member
- Financial Reconciliation Committee, Member
UST Insights Mentoring Program, Mentor
St. Rose of Lima Catholic Community
- Women’s ACTS Retreat, Co-Director (2017)
- Women’s ACTS Retreat, Team Member (2016-present)
- Formation Sub-Committee, Member (2016-2017)
- Spring Festival, Silent Auction Co-Chair (2016)
- Hospitality Board, Member (2013-present)
