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Expert fact finding, risk assessment, and advisory services for complex and high-stakes situations

Overview

Founded in 1984 by former Senate Watergate Committee counsel Terry F. Lenzner, IGI is a preeminent risk advisory and corporate investigations firm comprised of former prosecutors, forensic accountants, researchers, investigators, and analysts who come from the White House, federal law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the financial services industry, and journalism. Our team helps clients gather facts and intelligence, mitigate risk, and prevail in adversarial situations.

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History

For more than three decades, IGI has maintained a steadfast commitment to the truth, uncovering crucial facts that have influenced high-stakes legal battles and shaped major events- while always upholding the highest ethical standards.

With core specialties in internal investigations, regulatory and competitive intelligence, due diligence, executive background investigations, and litigation support, IGI provides its clients with unparalleled strategic counsel and technical expertise from former prosecutors and sophisticated analysts, investigators, accountants, and public relations specialists.

Leadership

Experts in complex fact-finding investigations, IGI’s team of former prosecutors, researchers, analysts, and investigators have hone their information-collection and analytical skills in a wide variety of complex legal, financial, and governance matters spanning more than 30 years.

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On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, Gibson Dunn partner Daniel Chung and IGI President / The Lenzner Firm’s Arun G. Rao moderated a panel discussion with a group of distinguished Asian-Pacific American jurists, who provided their insights on diversity in the legal profession, their own paths in the law, and their experiences on the bench.

06/19/2019

Larry A. Potts rejoined IGI as the Executive Vice President. He will develop and lead IGI’s compliance practice, drawing on his expertise gained from nearly 15 years running compliance and security for Scientific Games Corporation.

Read the full press release here.

05/23/2019

On April 24th, 2019, IGI President Arun G. Rao and Executive Vice President Larry Potts shared their thoughts on the recent Operation Varsity Blues – including the tactics federal investigators use to identify and expose vulnerabilities, and how one bad actor in the industry or at a university can place an entire institution under the federal microscope. They also shared best practices to help colleges and universities avoid, prepare for, and survive an active investigation.

05/01/2019

On March 13, 2019, IGI President Arun G. Rao was quoted in The Washington Post article, “Manafort indicted in New York state, charges that fall outside Trump’s pardon power.”

Rao, a former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice and assistant district attorney in Manhattan, said “In the event Mr. Manafort ultimately evades federal justice by virtue of a politically expedient pardon, he may still be held accountable for violations of New York state law.”

03/14/2019

On Tuesday December 18, 2018, IGI President Arun G. Rao was quoted in the Associated Press article “Flynn heads to sentencing, with ‘Good luck’ wish from Trump.”

12/18/2018

On December 18, 2018, the President of IGI, Arun G. Rao, was interviewed by CBC News Network’s Andrew Nichols with respect to Michael Flynn’s sentencing delay and its potential impact to the Mueller investigation.

12/18/2018

On September 19, 2018, IGI Senior Managing Director Doug Graham appeared on HBO’s Vice News Tonight.

10/09/2018

IGI President and APABA-DC Board Member Arun G. Rao served as the Master of Ceremonies for APABA-DC’s 2018 Annual Awards and Installation Gala at the National Museum for Women in the Arts on September 27, 2018.

10/01/2018

IGI President Arun G. Rao was quoted in the Washingtonian article, “The Making of Rod Rosenstein,” published on September 25, 2018.

09/27/2018

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