Christopher DeSá is a seasoned risk management professional and former international securities lawyer with over 15 years of experience investigating, assessing, managing and reporting legal, operational, regulatory and reputational risk. He regularly assists legal counsel with subject matter and geographic expertise on cross-border disputes and investigations, ESG and sustainability reporting, and regulatory compliance.

A former lawyer with a prominent global law firm, Mr. DeSá supports legal counsel on complex matters that require significant subject matter or geographic expertise. He regularly assists external and in-house counsel with risk assessments, sustainability reporting and compliance, privileged consulting, expert witness services, investigative fact finding and forensic accounting.

Mr. DeSá also brings significant expertise in Latin America, having assisted counsel on some of the region’s highest profile disputes and investigations. He has also been supporting counsel and their corporate clients on a wide range of sustainability-related reporting issues.

Mr. DeSá’s experience includes:

• Developing expert reports for counsel with detailed analysis and assessment of corruption and fraud allegations in a multibillion dollar post-acquisition arbitration disputes in the global forest products and data center industries.
• Providing an expert report for counsel on the political and regulatory environment in Brazil’s oil and gas industry in high-profile U.S. securities litigation.
• Overseeing a complex investigation into fraud and corruption involving a leading Brazilian insurance brokerage.
• Assisting counsel with a double materiality assessment (DMA) under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) for a publicly-held company.
• Advising the C-suite of a leading construction and engineering on sustainability reporting obligations.
  Assisting a publicly-held oilfield services company with its emissions disclosures and requirements.

Prior to his return to FTI Consulting, Mr. DeSá led the sustainability practice at a global financial and risk advisory firm. He began his career as a securities lawyer in the São Paulo office of White & Case, LLP.

He holds an M.Phil, with distinction, from the University of Oxford, a J.D., with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas Law Review, and a B.A. (Philosophy) from UCLA.

Mr. DeSá is fluent in English and Portuguese and offers a working knowledge of Spanish.