Wealth & Finance International | January 2016
2015 Leading Fraud Inv If life is a journey, David Debenham has certainly followed a strange and tortuous road to winning our exclusive “Leading Fraud Investigators Award for Canada. David began his career as a lawyer, and indeed is “Rated-Distinguished” by Martindale-Hubbell, North America’s pre-eminent lawyer peer review service. His 25 years as a trial lawyer, and his training as a management and forensic accountant, have given him a unique advantage in representing management, and their businesses, from inception to insolvency in all areas of commercial and corporate litigation involving fraud and corruption. Unique amongst Canadian lawyers, he is a certified fraud specialist, and President of the Association of Certified Forensic Investigators of Canada. He has been recognized as an expert in fraud by the Canadian Bar Association’s “The National” magazine, and such leading Canadian publications as the National Post and The Toronto Star, as well as CBC and CTV television news. He has written for LawPro, the lawyers’ malpractice insurer in Ontario, and led a training session for investigators for the Law Society of Upper Canada.
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