Antonio Pereira

Antonio Pereira is a seasoned leader with over 35 years of diversified global experience, recognized for guiding organizations through complex, high‑profile local and cross‑border engagements. His career spans multiple sectors, where he has earned a reputation for delivering strategic insight, operational clarity, and measurable value. Antonio’s work blends deep analytical expertise with a practical, solutions‑driven approach, making him a trusted advisor to executives, investors, and stakeholders navigating transformative challenges

He specializes in forensic accounting, litigation support, restructuring, and turnaround management, having served as Chief Restructuring Officer, Chief Wind Down Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions due diligence and post‑acquisition integration, accounting irregularities, damage calculations, breach‑of‑contract matters, international arbitration, financial crime investigations, and AML/ATF and FCPA compliance and investigations. He also conducts corporate compliance assessments and deterrence programs, fraud risk management, internal audit projects, and evaluations of operational performance for domestic and international corporations and their legal counsel across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.

He has extensive hands-on experience in assisting corporations in government matters involving Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Cease and desist orders and Memorandum of understanding. He has led numerous investigations and due diligence and/ or provided reports to various governmental agencies such as the DOJ, SEC, DCC, FDIC, FINRA, FRB, Inter-American Development Bank, The World Bank and Government agencies in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay.

Antonio has worked on numerous financial and compliance investigations assisting clients with AML Compliance taking into account the rules and requirements of the USA Patriot Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control, and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, as well as other local and international regulatory requirements and/or standards. He has provided expert testimony in litigation, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings on more than 50 occasions.

Representative engagements on which Antonio has worked include:

• He acted as the quantum expert in connection with an investment in a 300 MW solar project, assessing the project’s percentage of completion, the estimated cost to complete, and the projected timeline for completion. The engagement includes valuation work, litigation support, and construction advisory services
  Conducted investigations into earnings management schemes involving complex accounting issues related to revenue recognition, expense capitalization, restructuring and purchase accounting reserves, and other accounting devices used to manipulate earnings
• Conducted post-acquisition dispute investigations involving US GAAP, IAS, management representations, consistency, and reasonableness of the financial statements
• Conducted complex fraud investigations related to improper conversion of corporate assets, improper bank loans to related parties, kickback schemes, inappropriate expense capitalization, and other employee malfeasance
• Provided expert testimony before an arbitration panel in Bogota on behalf of a large North American-based telecommunications company. The dispute arose from a complex series of contracts with a Colombian telecommunications company.
• Investigated allegations on behalf of three premier international financial institutions that certain shareholders of a bank in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay had convertedS250 million in securities to cover losses arising from non­performing loans.
• Performed a review, on behalf of the International Monetary Fund and the Ecuadorian Government, of the quality of the assets of seven financial institutions in Ecuador (accounting for approximately 70% of the local banking system), particularly, related party loans and transactions.
• Assisted debtors’ counsel, debtors, and creditors’ committees in their vulnerability assessment of loan portfolio recovery.
• Managed an enterprise-wide AML compliance review and program assessment for a bank under government order. The order mandated the engagement of an Independent Consultant to perform extensive testing, developing enhancements, and the implementation/validation of new industry leading risk based program.
• Retained to assist a premier global financial institution in defending itself against allegations that it had issued certain funds transfers totaling $600 million from its operations in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Colombia to offshore havens in Panama, Grand Cayman, Zurich, and Jersey, allegedly to legitimize the proceeds of narcotics and weapons trafficking.
• Advised PE firms, financial investors, and private investors on art and coin M&A, including provenance review, financial modeling, monetization and tokenization strategies, and transaction structuring, delivering strategic insights that enhance long‑term portfolio performance and value.

Prior to joining GlassRatner, Antonio was the Partner-in-charge of the Forensic practice for the Florida, Puerto Rico and Latin America markets of KPMG LLP. More recently, Antonio held senior positions with ISM, Inc., a boutique financial advisory and forensic accounting firm.

Antonio is a Chartered Accountant, graduated from the Andres Bello Catholic University with a Bachelor In Business Administration. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.