Areas of Expertise

  • Damages & Lost Profit Analysis
  • Data Analytics Testing 
  • Expert Witness
  • Forensic Accounting
  • Fraud Investigation
  • Healthcare Fraud
  • Internal Investigations
  • Litigation Support
  • Ponzi Schemes
  • Real Estate Fraud

Industries

  • Energy
  • Financial Institution
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail

Designations

  • CPA
  • CFE

Education

  • BBA University of Texas at Austin

Experience

  • 1 Year with Firm
  • 39 Years of Relevant Experience

Biography

Larry Kanter is a CPA with more than 25 years of combined Big 4 and international consulting firm experience. He was a Partner at PwC, EY and was a Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal. He has served in leadership and testifying expert roles in numerous large, complex engagements involving GAAP, internal control, damage quantification and fraud/forensic investigative issues. Mr. Kanter was among the first forensic CPAs to integrate data analytic processes into his practice. One of Mr. Kanter's most noteworthy engagements was leading the forensic data analytics component for the international investigation into the role of 26 Swiss banks in their appropriation of funds belonging to the victims of Nazi persecution by developing and implementing the processes to match holocaust victim's names to lists of account holders at each of the 26 banks.

Since 2009, Mr. Kanter has been an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business where he teaches a master's level course in Forensic Accounting and previously, he developed and taught SMU's first course in Data Analytics for masters level accounting students.

Mr. Kanter is a CPA, with a Certificate in Financial Forensic from the American Institute of CPAs and is a Certified Fraud Examiner and is a member of various committees for the Texas Society of CPAs including the Business Valuation, Forensic and Litigation Services committee.

B. Riley Advisory Services works with lenders, law firms, private equity sponsors and companies of all types. Our Advisory Services are a unique mix of Valuation and Appraisal Services including asset-based lending (ABL) Valuations; Restructuring and Turnaround Management; Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support; Operations Management; Compliance, Risk & Resilience Services; and Transaction Support Services including Due Diligence and Quality of Earnings Reviews. B. Riley Advisory Services is the trade name for GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, Great American Group Advisory & Valuation Services, LLC, Great American Group Machinery & Equipment, LLC, and Great American Group Intellectual Property Advisors, LLC.