Shehzila Sadruddin

Shehzila Sadruddin is an associate director in Berkeley Research Group’s (BRG) Forensic Accounting practice.

She 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, Mrs. Sadruddin has developed experience in the following areas:

• Forensic and investigative accounting: participated in investigations involving employee fraud and misconduct, fraudulent financial reporting, and Ponzi schemes. Her work has included detailed analysis of historical accounting and bank records, compliance with books and records provisions, identification of red flags, testing of transactions, tracing of funds, and evaluating internal controls.
• Loss/damage determination: utilized financial models to project past and potential future damages in commercial litigation matters such as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, wrongful termination, oil and gas royalty disputes, business interruption, lost profits, and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) class action matters.
• Bankruptcy: assisted in bankruptcy matters including analysis of fraudulent conveyances and solvency determination and contract rejection damages.
• Financial reporting and analysis: performed financial reporting and analysis for private retail business to provide timely and reliable financial information to the company’s management and external users. Prepared monthly, quarterly, and year-end consolidated financial statements, notes to consolidated financial statements, debt covenant analyses, and quarterly board of directors presentations.
• Initial public offering: assisted with draft of form S-1 for a private retail business, including preparation of consolidated financial statements, management discussion and analysis (MD&A), and related-party transactions.
• Valuation of business entities: performed valuation of closely held businesses and partnerships.
• Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles: evaluated accounting and auditing issues including application of GAAP and auditing standards.
• Business interruption: prepared claim documentation for submission to insurance company.