Kimberli Cornell

Kimberli works with business professionals and liaises with clients on a variety of client acceptance and new engagement issues, including resolution and mitigation of actual and perceived conflicts of interest, to ensure that new client and business issues are fully evaluated and managed, and to address relationship concerns with new and existing clients. She has extensive experience with conflicts of interest and ethical wall policies, procedures development and implementation, and compliance through oversight and training.

Before joining Ankura, Kimberli created a centralized conflict department that grew from a two-person team supporting a 120-person organization in two offices to a nine-person team supporting over 4,400 professionals in 50 offices internationally. The team’s responsibilities included real-time coverage overseas, after-hours support, and client-intake orientation for senior-level hires.

She has served on numerous corporate merger and acquisition teams, providing client and engagement due diligence and system-integration assistance, which included preparing proprietary systems when needed for seamless integration and onboarding assistance. One of the teams oversaw 35 global acquisitions during its tenure.

Kimberli regularly collaborates with lead finance and marketing professionals to ensure the smooth transition of information, from the pursuit of an opportunity to retention, billing, and project closure. This experience gives her a well-rounded understanding of conflict/client management and finance software and processes.

With a rich history of large-growth firm development, Kimberli has been involved in numerous corporate initiatives, including merger and acquisition integration, IT governance, enterprise corporate systems evaluations, business administration, procurement, and talent management. She works closely with other firm leaders to create and improve processes and policies and to coordinate long-term organizational planning.