Anthony Lendez

Anthony Lendez is member of the leadership team of BDO Advisory’s Forensics group, encompassing monitorships, securities litigation, investigations, accountants’ professional liability, white collar crime, compliance, litigation, investigative due diligence, and forensic technology. Before joining BDO Forensics, he was a Principal in BDO’s National Assurance Department, a Technical Manager for the SEC Practice Section of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and an Audit Manager at a big four accounting firm.

Mr. Lendez assists organizations with matters involving compliance violations, financial statement irregularities, and management fraud, and accounting firms with claims arising from professional liability cases. He has led numerous high-profile monitorships, securities litigation cases, investigations, and accountants’ professional liability matters involving the application of compliance requirements, accounting principles, and auditing standards.

He is currently a lead BDO Principal working with the monitor overseeing a global telecom company’s compliance with U.S. export control regulations. He was also the lead BDO Principal assisting the monitor overseeing the historic National Mortgage Settlement involving several of the nation’s largest banks. He also worked with monitors who oversaw the JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank residential mortgage-back securities settlements; the JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo settlements with the U.S. Trustee’s Office related to bankruptcy filings; and the Flagstar Bank CFPB settlement. He was also the lead Principal for the monitorship of Western Union’s antimoney laundering settlement. He has also led several major investigations, including the investigations of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, New Century Financial Corporation, the American Red Cross, and AOL/Time Warner, among others. He has testified before the International Court of Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, U.S. district courts, and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, served as an arbitrator, and presented findings to the SEC, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, state attorneys general, the CFPB, and audit committees.

As a member of BDO’s National Assurance Department, Mr. Lendez developed BDO’s audit and accounting guidance and training materials, and responded to inquiries involving the application of audit, accounting, financial reporting, compliance, and Firm policy matters. As a Technical Manager for the SEC Practice Section, he investigated alleged audit failures, including matters related to the financial institution failures resulting from the 1980s savings and loan crisis. As an audit manager at KPMG, Mr. Lendez conducted audits of retail, manufacturing, banking, healthcare, wholesale, construction, non-profit, and service entities, including SEC registrants.