Forensic Accountants · Established 1995
Insurance claims, litigation support & investigative accounting.
We translate or reconstruct financial data into qualitative data — documenting hidden truths, undiscovered assets and loss of income.
Our Services
What we do.
Every assignment — from $10,000 to over $450,000,000 — receives the personal attention of one of our experienced partners.
Insurance Claims
We have extensive experience measuring property damage and business interruption losses, as well as liability, fidelity, personal injury, valuable papers and subrogation cases.
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Litigation Support
Members of our firm are frequently asked to testify in court or at depositions as expert witnesses, and to assist counsel in developing questions for examinations under oath.
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Business Valuation
We perform business valuations for divorce cases, partnership and family disputes, the purchase or buyout of a business, and dissolved or destroyed businesses.
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A forensic accounting firm, since 1995.
Chakonis & Pettit, L.L.C. is a forensic accounting and consulting firm that dedicates its practice entirely to insurance claims, litigation support and investigative accounting — with experience across organizations of all types and sizes.
Forensic accounting requires investigative skill combined with the expertise, education and experience of a veteran accounting firm. We translate financial data into qualitative evidence: hidden truths, undiscovered assets and the true loss of income.
More about the firm →By analyzing a restaurant's linen and laundry invoices, we reconstructed the number of tables used each night — revealing significantly more income than the managing partner had reported.
Case in point · Business Valuation
Our Team
The partners on your matter.
Michael S. Chakonis
Forensic accounting since 1984. Member, The Institute of Business Appraisers.
Edward A. Pettit, Jr.
Damage measurement and business valuation. Former Vice President, PNC Bank.
Our Clients