Nardello & Co. Announces New Partners

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nardello & Co. LLC, a leading global investigations firm, today announced that Tara MacMillan, Thomas Feeney, Nicholas Peck and Michael Ramos have become partners of the firm.

Dan Nardello, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nardello & Co., said, “Tara, Tom, Nick and Michael are all outstanding leaders who have demonstrated their integrity, exceptional service to our clients and unwavering commitment to the firm’s culture of excellence. They have made significant contributions to our growth and success over the course of their tenures and were an integral part of our firm’s ability to maintain strong momentum through 2020. We are pleased to welcome them into Nardello & Co.’s growing partnership.”

Biographies

Tara MacMillan

Tara MacMillan is the firm’s Chief Professional Officer and Regional Head of the Americas, where she oversees the quality of the firm’s investigations globally and directs its work in the region. She has more than 25 years of experience managing complex litigation support, due diligence, compliance reviews, and asset tracing investigations both in the US and internationally. Ms. MacMillan manages the firm’s international anti-corruption compliance relationships for several multinational clients and has extensive experience managing due diligence investigations. Prior to joining Nardello & Co., she worked as an investigative analyst with an international corporate investigations firm. She later joined the advisory services practice at an international consulting firm where she worked on investigations involving fraudulent international banking activities, internal investigations of not-for-profit organizations, and pre-transactional due diligence for private equity investments.

Thomas Feeney

Senior Managing Director Thomas Feeney has successfully directed investigations of white collar crime matters, conducted hundreds of witness interviews around the world, and led multistate mobile surveillance operations. Prior to joining Nardello & Co., Mr. Feeney led and participated in numerous investigations at the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf in support of civil litigation matters as well as ones involving bribery, fraud, embezzlement, and alleged violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He served for a decade as a US postal inspector in New York. Mr. Feeney has prepared submissions for congressional review and also contributed to Building a World-Class Compliance Program: Best Practices and Strategies for Success, by Martin T. Biegelman (Wiley, 2008).

Nicholas Peck

Nicholas Peck is a Senior Managing Director in the New York office and has conducted litigation support, international asset searches, fraud investigations, corporate control contests, and domestic and international due diligence for more than 30 years. Among his significant public matters, Mr. Peck led Nardello & Co.’s independent investigation into allegations made by several media outlets and non-governmental organizations about abusive labor practices that may have affected the thousands of migrant workers who built New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi. Other representative matters he has led include: an investigation of a payment processing scheme that led to the documentation of instances of money laundering, evidence that was used in a subsequent criminal prosecution; an investigation of oligarchs that documented false statements to US courts and regulatory agencies; and an investigation of an energy company in arbitration that led to the identification of numerous undisclosed related party transactions. Prior to joining Nardello & Co., Mr. Peck opened the South African office of an international investigations firm, where his cases included, among others, a fraud investigation involving a state-owned bank that led to numerous convictions and security audits of gold mine sites.

Michael Ramos

Based in New York, Michael Ramos is a Senior Managing Director and the firm’s Chief Risk and Compliance Officer. A member of the firm’s Litigation Support Practice, Mr. Ramos’s legal and investigative career has spanned 30 years. At Nardello & Co., Mr. Ramos has managed large litigation support investigations across multiple jurisdictions involving internal fraud, defense against RICO actions, libel cases, and criminal defense matters. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a former Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. Earlier in his career, he worked at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP and clerked for the Honorable Joan M. Azrack in the Eastern District of New York.

About Nardello & Co.

Nardello & Co. is a global investigations firm whose experienced professionals handle a broad range of issues including due diligence, anti-corruption and fraud investigations, civil and white collar criminal litigation and arbitration support, asset tracing, activist defense, political risk and strategic intelligence, digital investigations and cyber defense, monitorships and independent investigations, and compliance.

Their clients include the world’s leading law firms and financial institutions, Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, governments, NGOs, sports organizations, and academic institutions.

With offices in New York, London, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Milan, and Dubai, Nardello & Co. maintains a professional staff that includes former US federal prosecutors, US and international lawyers, former law enforcement personnel and intelligence operatives, licensed investigators, research analysts, former journalists, financial crime specialists, forensic accountants, and computer forensic experts.