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Gottschalk Inc. was founded specifically to provide specialized financial litigation support services in an independent boutique firm setting.

At Gottschalk Inc. we know the challenges facing our clients - corporate fraud, contract disputes, shareholder disagreements – could seriously affect their business performance and in some cases threaten an organization’s survival. We believe that we can best serve our clients in a specialized independent firm setting where our focus is on assisting resolve these complex and critical issues.

Gottschalk Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada. We provide services in Canada, the US and internationally. We are a founding member of FAILSAFE, an association of independent forensic accounting firms. FAILSAFE provides us resources in a number of related specialties and cities across Eastern Canada and the US. (www.failsafegroup.com)

We have been retained by:

  • A U.S. Fortune 500 company, to assess damages in a case before the Ontario courts
  • A regulatory body, to perform several investigations of suspected underreporting of sales and royalties related to intellectual property rights
  • Hollinger Inc., to investigate related-party transactions
  • A not-for-profit organization to investigate allegations of fraud by the executive director
  • Legal counsel of fraud defendants, to assess the prosecutions forensic accounting analysis
  • Business owners, to value privately held companies in matrimonial and shareholder disputes and for corporate reorganizations
  • The Auditor General of Canada with respect to fraud risk mitigation
  • A U.S. not-for-profit organization, to investigate the alleged overseas diversion of funds from its Canadian branch
  • Private companies, to quantify damages in breach-of-agreement actions, including cases against multinational companies
  • Beneficiaries, in an estate matter to assess damages caused by alleged negligence by the estate’s accountant and in another matter to investigate suspected fraud by the estate’s executor.
  • Disputing shareholders to jointly value a minority interest to facilitate the buyout of the minority
  • Plaintiffs, to assess the completeness of a defendant’s disclosures and where incomplete to swear Affidavits listing the information believed to be missing with detailed explanations