Brad Kolacinski

Partner

  • Global
  • eDiscovery
  • Digital Forensics
  • Investigations, Litigation and Forensics
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Brad Kolacinski is a Partner with Control Risks’ Discovery + Data Insights practice and leads the Digital Forensics and eDiscovery teams globally.

Brad brings significant advisory experience working on complex litigation and investigative matters involving financial fraud, bribery, corruption, antitrust and intellectual property theft. He and his teams assist clients with crafting defensible data identification, preservation and collection strategies and have extensive expertise in leveraging data analytics, AI, and machine learning for discovery in support of cross-border disputes and government inquiries abroad. Brad has supported on matters in more than 25 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Recent tasks that Brad has worked on include:

  • Delivered managed forensics and eDiscovery services to a leading financial services company in the US, assisting in-house and external counsel across a range of data preservation, collection, processing, hosting, analytics, and production issues in the context of regulatory and class action matters
  • Consulted on a government investigation into pervasive corruption in South America involving over 650 custodians, managing forensic analysis of over 1,000 devices
  • Led on dozens of IP theft and misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information matters, conducting forensic analysis related to data exfiltration, deletion, and other obfuscation
  • Oversaw an internal investigation into bribery payments made to third-party customs agents in India, coordinating a global team across all phases, including data collection, forensic analysis, data processing, hosting, investigative review, predictive analytics, and final reporting deliverables
  • Before joining Control Risks, Brad was with a leading litigation solutions firm, where he advised on forensics, discovery and investigative matters. Prior to that, he worked at a global legal services provider.

    Brad graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Film Studies and earned a Post-Graduate Certificate from Bryan University’s E-Discovery Project Management Program as valedictorian of his class. He is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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