Peter Schimmel

Peter Schimmel works at the Rotterdam branch…

…Peter started his career in 1984 as a government auditor with the tax authorities. In the course of time he graduated in Economics (UvA), Chartered accountant (UvA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE). In 1991 he moved into the corporate sector in the employ of Loyens & Volkmaars as senior tax consultant. Here, he honed a great deal of experience within a highly legally-oriented environment. In 1995 Peter signed for KPMG followed by Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, holding the office of managing partner forensic, Central Europe Area at last-named company. Central to Peter’s work are peculiar - frequent fraud-related - audits in both the private and public sectors conducted almost always for or with lawyers. The desire to establish the truth is the point of departure here.

After holding positions like managing director at Protiviti Litigation (2007) and director at IRS Dispute Resolution (2009), Peter joined Grant Thornton on 1 September 2010 as a partner. His areas of practice bear upon fraud risk management, financial investigation, circumstantial related investigation and litigation consulting.

From our Rotterdam branch, Peter directs a core team of forensic accountants and forensic IT/e-discovery experts together with colleague & partner Mark Hoekstra. In addition to his duties at Grant Thornton, Peter is co-ordinator of the Euroforum series Integrity and Compliance Management and regularly writes commentaries and opinions for dailies (newspapers). A number of high-profiled cases wherein his expertise has been called upon in the course of years involved construction fraud, banking in the province of Zuid-Holland, the ABN-AMRO Sarphatistraat fraud case, the management fraud case at Getronics Italy and The Entertainment Group bankruptcy.