Experts & Advisors
Regina Lee
Senior Managing Director
Regina Lee is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura based in Houston. Throughout her career, she has served major law firms, C-suite executives, audit committees, and governmental entities, applying her forensic accounting and data analytic skills in high-profile and complex accounting investigations.
Experience
Regina has deep experience with investigations relating to fraud, white collar crime, accounting errors, financial restatements, mass torts, securities, and bankruptcy. Prior to joining Ankura, she led an international team of experts at a global consulting firm.
A selection of Regina’s professional experience includes:
- Regularly worked with top law firms to support government forensic accounting and data analytics for clients facing government allegations of accounting misstatement, executive misconduct, investor fraud, and bribery.
- Investigated whistleblower reports at numerous corporations, determining financial statement impact and working with regulators, criminal authorities, and external auditors to resolve the issues.
- Established claim resolution programs to efficiently and accurately adjudicate claims to compensate mass tort victims.
- Managed 1,200 cases at post-petition Enron, including civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court matters, resulting in $20 billion recovered to the estate.
- Worked with SIPC trustee to construct claims organization for the Madoff fraud recovery.
- Appointed as litigation trustee, liquidating trustee, claims administrator, settlement administrator, or served as financial advisor to court appointed professionals.
- Education
- Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School
- MBA, Finance, Ohio University
- BBA, Accounting, Texas McCombs School of Business
- Honors & Awards
- “Top 25 Global Consultant” by Consulting Magazine
- LawDragon list of top global restructuring finance professionals
- Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant, Texas State Board of Public Accountancy and New York State Education Department
- Certified in Financial Forensics, AICPA
- Certified Fraud Examiner, ACFE
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, ACAMS
- Forensic Certified Public Accountant, Forensic CPA Society
- Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor, AIRA
- Certified Litigation Management Professional, CLM Alliance
- Affiliations
- Association of International CPAs
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
- Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
- Women’s White-Collar Defense Association
- Turnaround Management Association
