Avi Kamath is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant, and Certified Fraud Examiner with over twelve years of professional experience in providing forensic accounting, investigation, cryptocurrency advisory, audit/assurance and tax services.
Avi’s forensic experience includes investigating complex, multi-million dollar fraud schemes involving numerous parties across different jurisdictions. He has also assisted clients and counsel involved in shareholder / partnership and family law disputes, and quantified economic losses in alleged contract breaches and class action litigation. Avi is known for his industry-specific knowledge, technical competency in reviewing financial material and ability to analyze large volumes of data. Avi is also a cryptocurrency specialist who has devoted extensive time researching issues relevant to the forensic accounting practice, including tracing and recovery of cryptocurrency assets.
In addition to his client responsibilities, Avi has also lectured, authored articles and developed courses on cryptocurrencies. With his hands-on experience running cryptocurrency ‘nodes’ and testing decentralized finance applications, Avi is able to effectively sift through technical complexities and comment on the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.
- Led forensic accounting fieldwork in five cryptocurrency mining matters. Services included quantifying damages from alleged contract breaches, investigating allegations of ‘hashrate diversion’, data extraction and distillation, and preparing reports with visual demonstratives for arbitration.
- Extensive involvement in an international fraud scheme investigation involving multiple parties and currencies, including: (i) completing a full tracing of transactions relating to a cryptocurrency asset (ii) visualizing and graphing the cryptocurrency asset transactions to illustrate flow of funds (iii) opining on the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency asset used to carry out the alleged fraud, (iv) analyzing the general ledger and accounting records to identify efforts to conceal the alleged fraud, and (v) selectively tracing traditional funds in different currencies to identify alleged kickbacks.
- Conducted a multi-year cryptocurrency funds tracing analysis involving several cryptocurrency exchanges, 200+ unique cryptocurrency assets and 200,000+ transactions (including on-chain ‘DeFi’ activity).
- Developed a customized, comprehensive protocol document to ensure the security and integrity of cryptocurrency assets expected to be held by the court-appointed Escrow Agent, in connection with a Mareva Injunction.
- Secured cryptocurrency assets from multi-signature wallets, law enforcement and other parties on behalf of the court-appointed Escrow Agent, in accordance with the established security protocols.
- Compiled and accounted for seven years of historical cryptocurrency activity involving 150+ unique cryptocurrency assets. Significant gaps in records, due to defunct exchanges and lost records, were reconstructed by independently analyzing blockchain records.
- Analyzed banking records, business records, email and text message correspondence to investigate a large-scale, multi-year municipal fraud involving numerous staff, vendors and third parties.
Education
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Queen’s University
Bachelor’s of Commerce (Honors), 2012 -
Queen’s University
Graduate Diploma in Accounting, 2012
Licenses/Certifications
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA)
- Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Honors
Lexology Index:
- Recommended Expert – Digital & Data – Digital Forensic Experts 2025
- Recommended Expert – Forensic Accountants 2025
Affiliations
- Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario
- Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
Languages
English, Hindi, Marathi