Jason Pate

Jason Pate, Director, KPMG

Jason joined KPMG in 1996 and has approximately 15 years of experience in the accountancy profession.Since April 1996 Jason has specialised full-time in Forensic.He has considerable experience in a variety of forensic work types including: business crime and confiscation matters; competition and regulatory investigations; fraud investigations and accounting misstatements; civil recoveries arising from frauds; loss of profits cases; and sale and purchase agreement vetting.

Jason has particularly strong experience in matters involving Civil recoveries arsing from fraud in the UK and overseas jurisdictions, business crime and competition related investigations, the latter including assisting a major FTSE plc in responding to an investigation undertaken by the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") into alleged predatory and excessive pricing infringements under the Competition Act 1998.

He recently led the Forensic work on a significant multi-million pound alleged fraud perpetrated on a number of High Street banks in the UK.The case involved recreating the accounting records following the destruction of the vast majority of the Company's records, including a significant Forensic Technology element of imaging and recreating Company records from old "DAT" tapes and damaged computer hard drives.

Jason has acted as the KPMG named expert in numerous civil and criminal cases and he has given expert evidence at Trial.Jason has prepared numerous expert accountancy reports in his own name in civil and criminal matters, the latter often being instructed on behalf of the Defence in cases including charges relating to theft, conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

Jason Pate, Director

Jason Pate, Director, KPMG

Jason joined KPMG in 1996 and has approximately 15 years of experience in the accountancy profession. Since April 1996 Jason has specialised full-time in Forensic. He has considerable experience in a variety of forensic work types including: business crime and confiscation matters; competition and regulatory investigations; fraud investigations and accounting misstatements; civil recoveries arising from frauds; loss of profits cases; and sale and purchase agreement vetting.

Jason has particularly strong experience in matters involving Civil recoveries arsing from fraud in the UK and overseas jurisdictions, business crime and competition related investigations, the latter including assisting a major FTSE plc in responding to an investigation undertaken by the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") into alleged predatory and excessive pricing infringements under the Competition Act 1998.

He recently led the Forensic work on a significant multi-million pound alleged fraud perpetrated on a number of High Street banks in the UK. The case involved recreating the accounting records following the destruction of the vast majority of the Company's records, including a significant Forensic Technology element of imaging and recreating Company records from old "DAT" tapes and damaged computer hard drives.

Jason has acted as the KPMG named expert in numerous civil and criminal cases and he has given expert evidence at Trial. Jason has prepared numerous expert accountancy reports in his own name in civil and criminal matters, the latter often being instructed on behalf of the Defence in cases including charges relating to theft, conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

Jason Pate, Director KPMG