Experience
Kevin Tanaka is a partner in the firm’s Forensics, Litigation and Valuation Services Practice. Kevin specializes in assisting financial institutions and their legal counsel with privileged internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, legal proceedings, and associated remediation activity.
Kevin delivers accounting expertise, industry knowledge, and forensic data analysis skills to investigate a wide range of matters, including alleged customer harm, violations of various securities regulations, unauthorized sales and trading in complex financial instruments, market manipulation, insider trading, customer disclosure and suitability matters, financial reporting concerns, and bribery and corruption, among others. Kevin’s clients include registered broker-dealers and investment advisers, wealth and asset management firms, banking institutions, exchanges, and other participants across the financial sector. Kevin has extensive experience advising clients and their counsel respond to regulatory inquiries including from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, various state securities regulators, among others.
Prior to joining Citrin Cooperman, Kevin was a partner at a Big Four firm. Before that, Kevin held senior in-house investigation roles at a globally integrated payments company and one of the world's leading financial services providers.
CREDENTIALS
Education
Bachelor of Science in Finance, New York University
Master of Science in Accounting, University of Notre Dame
Licenses
Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York
Certified in Financial Forensics from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
Affiliations
Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
Faculty, Practicing Law Institute (PLI)
Presentations & Publications
“Basics of Accounting for Lawyers,” Practicing Law Institute, May 17, 2023
WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Community Involvement
Kevin is a volunteer coach of youth sports, including baseball and softball.
Outside the Office
Kevin is an avid fisherman and enjoys spending quality family time and traveling with his wife and four children.
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