J. Donald Fancher

Don Fancher is a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Principal with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP where he serves as the Global Leader of Deloitte Forensic. Mr. Fancher has over 30 years of experience assisting clients and leading practices in forensic, dispute consulting and legal transformation. He currently leads over 5,000 Deloitte professionals around the world serving clients in areas such as financial crime, disputes and investigations, business insurance, discovery, data governance, legal transformation, contract lifecycle management, and alternative legal services. In addition, Mr. Fancher leads Deloitte’s Chief Legal Officer program and is a leader in the Enterprise Trust practice.

Mr. Fancher has significant experience assisting clients and counsel in performing forensic investigations and special reviews for matters regarding financial crime, misappropriation of assets, breach of fiduciary duty, and FCPA violations. These have included both individual employee and institution-wide schemes for misappropriating funds and/or improperly reporting asset values and financial performance. These investigations have been performed for privately held companies, private institutions, not-for-profit entities and major, publicly held corporations. Mr. Fancher also has extensive experience consulting with counsel and management on accounting, financial, and economic matters as they relate to facts and the determination of damages and values in litigation, dispute resolution, and business insurance matters. He has testified in numerous commercial litigation and class-action matter throughout a number of jurisdictions in Federal, State, and Bankruptcy Court, as well as arbitration matters in the US and globally.

Mr. Fancher has also provided consulting services in a variety of matters regarding the assessment and evaluation of intellectual property portfolios to assist his diverse client base in the management of technology and intangible assets. He has provided assistance in licensing negotiations, technology and intellectual property valuation, market and industry assessments, and intellectual property portfolio management. He has also provided commercialization, monetization and business and intellectual property strategy assistance to clients. Beyond intellectual property, Mr. Fancher has been active in providing innovative solutions and strategies to legal departments in areas of workforce transformation, technology and workflow assessments, and contract lifecycle management implementation.

Mr. Fancher earned his BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University and his MBA from Baylor University. He has authored numerous publications, provided presentations, and been quoted extensively in periodicals and publications on subjects around a variety of regulatory compliance, forensic, dispute and legal technology issues. Mr. Fancher also hosts Deloitte’s Resilient Podcast series focusing on legal and regulatory topics and serves on the Board of Directors for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and Deloitte Transactions & Business Analytics LLP. Mr. Fancher holds a Secret Level Security Clearance from the United States Department of Defense.