K2 Integrity (formerly K2 Intelligence) is a

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risk, compliance and advisory services firm. Founded in 2009 by Jeremy M. Kroll and

Jules B. Kroll Jules B. Kroll (born May 18, 1941) is an American businessman who is executive chair and co-founder of K2 Integrity. In 1972, he established Kroll, Inc. In 2004, Kroll was sold to Marsh & McLennan Companies for $1.9 billion. In 2009, Kroll fou ...

, the company is headquartered in

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with international offices in

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, and

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. In November 2020, K2 Intelligence rebranded to K2 Integrity. Clients and industries served include

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hedge fund A hedge fund is a Pooling (resource management), pooled investment fund that holds Market liquidity, liquid assets and that makes use of complex trader (finance), trading and risk management techniques to aim to improve investment performance and ...

firms,

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, governmental agencies, and private and sovereign clients. As of 2020, the company employs a workforce of about 350 employees.

History

Jules Kroll and his son, Jeremy Kroll, opened K2 Intelligence's first office in London in 2009. Shortly after, the company's headquarters moved to a New York City location in January 2010. By April, a second office had opened in Madrid. In early 2013, K2 Intelligence had a workforce of 120 employees. K2G Global Limited in

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, was established as part of its Cyber Investigations and Defense Practice.

Acquisitions

In December 2012, K2 Intelligence acquired Thacher Associates, which oversaw the cleanup of the

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site, the building of the new

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, and the construction of the Bank of America Tower in

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Notable investigations

During a 2013 public corruption case, the

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of New York State, hired K2 Integrity "to search databases for donations linked to the passage of legislation or the awarding of state contracts." In 2014, K2 Integrity provided data analytics litigation support to recover the stolen funds to be distributed back to the victims of the

Bernie Madoff Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( ; April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time ...

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(

Madoff investment scandal The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. In December of that year, Bernie Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities ...

). In 2018, a forensic investigation was completed on behalf of the

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(AIBA) that documented

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and

financial mismanagement Financial mismanagement is management that, deliberately or not, is handled in a way that can be characterized as "wrong, bad, careless, inefficient or incompetent" and that will reflect negatively upon the financial standing of a business or indi ...

of AIBA affairs and finances. K2 Integrity investigated a scam case known as the Con Queen of Hollywood. The multi-year investigation led to the arrest of the suspect in Manchester, England, on 26 November 2020.

References

External links

* {{official website, https://www.k2intelligence.com/ 2009 establishments in New York (state) American companies established in 2009 Cyberwarfare in the United States