Expert profile
Highlights
- Chartered accountant with over ten years of experience.
- Expertise in quantifying damages in energy disputes, including renewables, gas, and power.
- Specialises in fraud, anti-money laundering, know your customer, and asset tracing investigations.
- Experience in commercial, post-M&A and investor-state arbitrations in Germany, France, Spain, Mexico, and other Latin American countries.
- Multilingual in German, English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Services
Digital Forensics & Investigations | Economic Damages | Financial Crime Compliance | Forensic Accounting | Investigations | International ArbitrationIndustries
Aerospace & Defense | Aviation | Financial Services | Industrial & Manufacturing | Mining & Metals | Oil & Gas | Power & Utilities | Renewables | Transportation Infrastructure | Technology, Media & Telecoms
Expertise
Manuela Gfrörer is a Chartered Accountant with over ten years of experience. She has assisted the named forensic accounting expert on nearly 15 occasions.
Manuela has assisted clients in international arbitration and forensic investigations. She has prepared expert reports and rebuttals, and has supported experts with oral testimony before ICSID, ICC, ICDR, CIMA, and SCAI forums, as well as litigation before the Federal Court of Australia.
Manuela specialises in accounting analysis and damages assessments for accounting adjustments and misstatements. Her expertise in complex investigations includes asset tracing and forensic analysis into fraudulent and corrupt practices, embezzlement, potential balance sheet manipulation, inventory theft, and anti-money laundering issues within financial institutions.
Background
Manuela has experience in commercial, post-M&A, and investor-state disputes with clients across various industries, including energy, construction, oil and gas, transportation, technology, mining, and pharmaceuticals. She has worked across multiple jurisdictions, including Germany, Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, Ecuador, Poland, DRC, Finland, Costa Rica, Australia, Venezuela, and other Latin American countries.
Manuela holds a master’s in international business and an advanced professional award in expert witness evidence. She is a member of the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club, the German initiative of Young Arbitration Practitioners, and the Women’s White Collar Defense Association. Manuela is fluent in English, German, Spanish, and French, and has good Italian fluency.
Qualifications
BA International Cultural and Business Studies
MSc International Business
ACA
Professional Memberships
CEIA-40, DIS40, WWCDA
Contact Manuela
Email: manuelagfrorer@hka.com
Tel: +34 659 26 86 36
Location:
Calle de Velázquez, 34
Madrid, 28001, España