Ankura

Helps organizations navigate high-stakes disputes and regulatory challenges while managing conflict, mitigating risks, and protecting value.

Helps organizations stabilize during distress, respond to crises, and create a sustainable path forward while protecting and recovering value.

Improves business outcomes, strengthens profitability, and turns strategy into results through operational improvements, optimized capital structures, and end-to-end execution.

Protects organizational value by helping clients manage risk, strengthen resilience, and navigate regulatory, cybersecurity, privacy, and geopolitical challenges.

Turns strategy into results, strengthens governance, and addresses complex challenges to build competitive advantage and protect freedom to operate.

Turns data and technology investments into faster decisions, stronger performance, and sustained enterprise value.

Helps organizations embed AI, scale adoption, manage risk, and turn AI investments into measurable, sustained business value.

Scales financial crime compliance operations, meets regulatory demands, and improves efficiency and resilience with expert-led, AI-enabled global support.

Helps healthcare organizations navigate regulatory complexity and address compliance and remediation needs with tailored expert support.

Helps healthcare organizations optimize facility portfolios and financial performance while supporting effective, efficient, and convenient care.

Provides independent, multidisciplinary healthcare expertise to address complex litigation, compliance, and operational challenges.

Helps payer and provider organizations build and manage effective operations and systems.

Helps organizations assess cyber risk, strengthen defenses for critical data, and address data privacy requirements.

Provides insightful and reliable valuations across healthcare and life sciences.

Helps global pharmaceutical and biotech companies navigate complex compliance and regulatory challenges.

Improves organizational performance and flexibility, manages labor costs, and drives financial results through engagement, operating practice refinement, and union negotiations.

Helps executives and leadership teams sustain high performance, strengthen alignment, and improve team effectiveness amid change and complexity.

Aligns product management with end-user needs and enterprise strategy to support a coherent product approach.

Improves employee capabilities, optimizes core functions, and enhances service levels with tailored strategies and solutions.

Helps organizations select enterprise solutions and implement them effectively to drive adoption, accelerate delivery, and increase return on investment.

Improves capital project performance, strengthens delivery controls, and reduces execution risks throughout the project lifecycle.

Resolve and manage conflict

Ankura helps clients manage, resolve, and mitigate conflict, from high-stakes legal cases to broad regulatory inquiries. Its multidisciplinary team of former regulators, investigators, lawyers, and industry executives supports disputes, risk and compliance, cybersecurity and data privacy, and forensics and investigations. Ankura works with clients throughout litigation, mediation, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings.

• Manage And Resolve High-Stakes Conflict
  Helps clients pursue resolution and mitigate the effects of conflict across legal cases and regulatory inquiries.
• Navigate Disputes Across Legal Proceedings
  Functional expertise, industry depth, and global experience support clients and counsel through complex disputes.
• Present Clear, Objective Expert Testimony
  Credible experts provide analyses, opinions, and testimony to help clients and counsel address complex matters.
• Address Regulatory And Investigative Challenges
  Helps clients navigate compliance matters, regulatory inquiries, and complex investigations.
• Mitigate Cyber And Data Risks
  Helps prevent breaches, mitigate data risks, and respond to cyber incidents and privacy threats.

Overcome distress and manage crisis

Ankura helps businesses, governments, and institutions protect, create, and recover value during distress and crisis. Its multidisciplinary experts provide advice and execution across turnaround and restructuring, cyber incident response and recovery, and complex debt restructurings. Ankura works with leaders, management teams, boards, and stakeholders to stabilize organizations, address disruption, and create a sustainable path forward.

• Stabilize And Restructure Businesses
  Helps distressed organizations restore stability and work toward a sustainable path forward.
• Restore Stability And Recover Value
  Helps organizations address crisis situations, protect value, and focus on operating their business.
• Respond To And Recover From Breaches
  Helps mitigate disruption and recover following cyber incidents and data privacy threats.
• Restructure Debt And Investments
  Supports clients facing financial distress with approaches intended to stabilize businesses and investments.
• Fill Critical Management Gaps
  Provides management support when vacancies create gaps at stressed or distressed companies.
• Navigate Bankruptcy And Insolvency
  Helps address bankruptcy processes and complex insolvency-related financial issues.
• Build Consensus Among Stakeholders
  Supports stakeholder alignment and collaborative restructuring plans that help move challenging processes toward resolution.

Unlock and accelerate performance

Ankura helps organizations improve business outcomes through strategic and operational expertise. Its experts streamline operations, optimize capital structures, and build internal capabilities to support growth, profitability, and sustainable performance. Services span finance, operations, governance, and transactions, with end-to-end execution designed to turn strategy into results.

Category: Management Consulting

• Turn Strategy Into Results
  Connects strategic goals with execution to achieve business outcomes and performance improvements.
• Streamline Operations And Improve Performance
  Captures efficiencies and performance improvements throughout the organization, supporting growth and sustained results.
• Optimize Capital Structures
  Refines capital structures to support profitability, growth, and long-term value creation.
• Build Internal Capabilities
  Develops organizational capabilities that support internal excellence, growth, and profitability.
• Execute Value-Creating Deals
  Structures and executes transactions to deliver synergies and unlock value.

Navigate compliance, cybersecurity, privacy, and geopolitical risks

Ankura helps organizations identify, analyze, quantify, and manage risks through tailored compliance programs aligned with international regulatory standards. Its experts integrate strategy, compliance, operations, and technology to address regulatory, cybersecurity, data privacy, sanctions, trade, and geopolitical challenges. Services include risk and compliance advisory, cybersecurity and privacy support, incident response, and international trade controls.

• Identify And Manage Risk
  Supports the assessment of threats to critical decisions and management of uncertainty.
• Build Tailored Compliance Programs
  Helps address regulatory obligations with programs customized to organizational needs.
• Coordinate Risk Management
  Brings multiple organizational disciplines together to address complex risks.
• Strengthen Cyber Resilience
  Supports breach defense, incident response, and development of internal cybersecurity capabilities.
• Protect Data And Meet Regulations
  Supports data protection and regulatory compliance through advisory and privacy programs.
• Navigate Sanctions And Trade Controls
  Helps assess and address exposure through compliance reviews, investigations, remediation, and licensing support.
• Address Global And Geopolitical Risks
  Supports navigation of cross-border challenges and changing global conditions.
• Secure AI And Support Compliance
  Helps assess AI risks, test infrastructure, address vulnerabilities, and support alignment with privacy and regulatory frameworks.

Optimize and execute strategy

Ankura helps governments, businesses, and institutions navigate the intersection of government, business, and society. Its multidisciplinary team addresses complex financial, political, and reputational challenges, protects freedom to operate, and builds competitive advantage. Governance and transformation services translate strategy into results through precise execution.

• Execute Complex Global Programs
  Supports strategies across multijurisdictional situations and complex challenges.
• Plan And Execute Strategic Change
  Connects strategy with precise execution to support organizational change and performance improvements.
• Strengthen Governance And Drive Growth
  Helps establish structures that support innovation and growth.
• Align Strategic Plans With Investment Goals
  Helps prioritize a detailed plan with input from company, fund, board, and strategic advisor stakeholders.
• Streamline Operations And Build Capabilities
  Improves processes to help streamline costs and operations while developing core capabilities.
• Deliver Programs And Engage Communities
  Supports societal commitments and effective community engagement.

Accelerate data-driven transformation

Ankura partners with organizations to plan and execute transformation, connecting strategy, technology, data, operating models, governance, and workforce adoption to business outcomes. Its teams help prioritize digital investments, modernize systems and workflows, build governed data foundations, improve decision-making, and implement change. The work is designed to improve performance, strengthen organizational capabilities, and create sustained enterprise value.

• Execute Transformation From Strategy To Results
  Connects strategic plans to coordinated implementation and measurable results.
• Modernize Capabilities For Measurable Performance
  Coordinates technology modernization with business priorities and execution to support performance and adoption.
• Build A Trusted Data Foundation
  Provides a reusable data foundation for analytics, automation, AI, reporting, forecasting, and decision-making.
• Turn Data Into Actionable Insight
  Provides timely, decision-ready information beyond static reporting.
• Automate Work For Faster Execution
  Reduces manual work and supports consistent, controlled execution.
• Build Alignment And Sustain Adoption
  Helps people participate in transformation and sustain change beyond implementation.
• Use Intelligence To Improve Commercial Decisions
  Helps identify opportunities to maximize revenue, minimize costs, and respond to market changes.
• Enable Governed, Continuous Improvement
  Supports responsive execution using real-time data and automation with oversight and risk controls.

Ankura, AI by Design

Ankura, AI by Design is a technology-agnostic, human-centered advisory practice that helps organizations close the gap between AI ambition and realized value. It aligns AI strategy, governance, operating models, skills, and workforce adoption with organizational ambitions, people, customers, and capabilities. Its three pillars—AI strategy, AI governance engineering, and workforce transformation—are supported by an internal AI Factory and specialist partners.

• Turn AI Ambition Into Measurable Growth
  Helps organizations identify AI opportunities, test potential, and create a measurable program.
• Embed AI Adoption Across The Workforce
  Role redesign, reskilling, and change help employees embrace AI across the organization.
• Manage AI Risk And Unlock Value
  Supports innovation, visibility, control, and confidence across an organization’s AI estate.
• Build And Deploy AI In Real Environments
  Supports practical AI implementation through building, testing, and deployment.
• Bring Specialist AI Capabilities Together
  Provides complementary expertise through a coordinated delivery team led by Ankura.

Financial Crime Compliance Managed Services

Ankura’s expert-led managed services help banks, payment providers, and financial services organizations meet regulatory demands and scale financial crime compliance operations. The service combines compliance expertise with global delivery and proprietary AI Analyst technology, which uses large language models, machine learning, and intelligent automation for workflow automation, analytics, and large-scale summarization. Support spans financial crime operations, regulatory filings, risk monitoring and analytics, and crypto and fintech compliance. Services address lookbacks, backlogs, and ongoing reviews, with embedded quality controls and coverage across geographies.

• Manage Reviews And Investigations
  Expert-led support covers alert and case reviews, investigations, screening, and due diligence.
• Accelerate Reviews And Reduce Manual Effort
  AI-enabled automation, analytics, and summarization support faster reviews, lower effort and costs, and more consistent operations while maintaining regulatory rigor.
• Prepare And Submit Regulatory Filings
  Supports accurate and timely preparation and submission of regulatory reports.
• Scale Coverage Across Geographies
  Provides global resources, round-the-clock operational coverage, and rapid response to client needs.
• Monitor Risk And Deliver Insights
  Monitoring, surveillance, reporting, and technology-enabled insights support financial crime risk oversight.
• Scale Crypto And Fintech Compliance
  Addresses regulatory readiness, controls, operational scaling, and virtual asset compliance.

Healthcare Compliance

Ankura helps healthcare clients navigate regulatory change and scrutiny. Its multidisciplinary team includes former health plan and provider compliance officers, auditors, statisticians, data analysts, clinicians, and medical coders. The firm provides tailored support for compliance and remediation needs.

Category: Compliance Consulting Services

• Address Compliance And Remediation Needs
  Helps healthcare clients address compliance and remediation needs amid regulatory change and scrutiny.
• Access Multidisciplinary Healthcare Expertise
  Clients can draw on compliance, audit, analytics, clinical, and medical coding professionals.
• Navigate Healthcare Regulatory Change
  Supports organizations addressing changing public policy and regulatory oversight.

Healthcare Real Estate Strategy & Solutions

Ankura’s strategies and solutions optimize healthcare facility portfolios’ physical footprints and financial performance while supporting effective, efficient, and convenient care.

• Optimize Facility Footprints
  Helps healthcare organizations optimize the physical footprints of their facility portfolios.
• Improve Portfolio Financial Performance
  Supports stronger financial performance across healthcare facility portfolios.
• Support Effective Care Delivery
  Supports effective, efficient, and convenient care delivery.

Healthcare Disputes

Ankura’s independent healthcare experts collaborate with attorneys and executives to address complex litigation, compliance, and operational challenges. The multidisciplinary team includes healthcare operators, auditors, clinical billing and coding experts, finance specialists, data analysts, and economists. Capabilities include expert and consulting expert witness matters, forensic accounting, financial damages, valuation, healthcare reimbursement, and economics.

• Bring Independent Healthcare Expertise
  Collaborates with attorneys and executives to address complex healthcare challenges.
• Support Expert Witness Matters
  Provides healthcare expertise for expert and consulting expert witness matters.
• Analyze Healthcare Financial Issues
  Applies financial analysis and valuation expertise to healthcare matters.
• Address Compliance And Remediation Needs
  Supports complex compliance and remediation needs with healthcare professionals.
• Assess Billing And Reimbursement Issues
  Applies billing, coding, and reimbursement expertise to specialized healthcare issues.
• Address Complex Operational Challenges
  Helps clients address complex healthcare operational challenges.

Healthcare Operations

Ankura’s operations and systems specialists help payer and provider organizations build, test, and manage effective functional operations. A healthcare client example involved unifying a merged IT organization, converting 150 onsite clinics to a single end-user computing platform, and standardizing business processes and technologies.

• Build And Manage Healthcare Operations
  Supports the development and management of functional operations tailored to payer and provider organizations.
• Test Operational Effectiveness
  Assesses how effectively functional operations work.
• Unify Healthcare Technology
  The cited engagement unified a healthcare IT organization and standardized processes and technologies across 150 clinics.

Data Privacy & Cyber Risk Advisory

Ankura provides advisory services to help organizations address cybersecurity risk and data privacy requirements. The team has performed more than 300 cybersecurity assessments, tested more than 200 security programs, implemented more than 100 GDPR and CCPA programs in 40 countries, and conducted more than 5,000 privacy impact assessments.

• Assess Cybersecurity Risks
  Evaluates risks to systems and data through cybersecurity assessments.
• Test Security Program Effectiveness
  Evaluates whether security programs can effectively defend critical data assets.
• Implement Privacy Compliance Programs
  Helps organizations address privacy regulations through GDPR and CCPA programs.
• Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments
  Helps organizations evaluate data privacy impacts.

Healthcare & Life Sciences Transaction and Valuation Advisory

Ankura delivers valuations across the full spectrum of healthcare and life sciences.

• Inform Decisions With Reliable Valuations
  Provides insightful and reliable valuations for healthcare and life sciences organizations.

Life Sciences Compliance

Ankura Life Sciences delivers strategic compliance and regulatory expertise to help global pharmaceutical and biotech companies navigate complex challenges and achieve business success.

Category: Compliance Consulting Services

• Navigate Complex Compliance And Regulatory Challenges
  Helps address compliance and regulatory challenges in the global pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.

Labor Strategy

Ankura’s Labor Strategy service helps organizations heighten performance, improve flexibility, and drive financial results by engaging hourly employees, refining operating practices, and negotiating with labor unions. Work can include analyzing labor information to identify cost waste, such as overstaffing and overtime abuse, and support better-informed management decisions.

• Engage Hourly Employees
  Supports organizational performance through hourly employee engagement.
• Refine Operating Practices
  Helps organizations improve flexibility and drive financial results.
• Execute Union Negotiations
  Supports organizations’ labor strategies through union negotiations.
• Analyze Labor Spend
  Helps management identify labor-cost waste and make faster, better-informed decisions.

Leader & Team Performance

Ankura delivers practical, rapid-start engagement with executives and leadership teams to sustain and improve performance amid change and complexity. Work can strengthen alignment, clarify roles and priorities, and improve communication and accountability through direct engagement beyond conference-room or off-site sessions.

• Sustain High Performance
  Helps leaders navigate constant change and increasing complexity while improving performance.
• Strengthen Team Alignment
  Helps executive and mission-critical teams work together more effectively.
• Clarify Roles And Priorities
  Helps teams focus their work and address patterns that hinder decisions and execution.
• Improve Team Communication And Accountability
  Supports stronger working relationships, clearer ownership, and effective team performance.
• Deliver Immediate Team Results
  Direct engagement is intended to produce immediate and obvious results.

Product Lifecycle Management

Ankura’s customer-centric product management service grounds organizational, technological, and market approaches in end-user needs. It helps align product approaches and strategies with enterprise strategy and value proposition.

• Align Product Management With User Needs
  Connects product management with the needs of the end user.
• Align Product Strategy With Enterprise Goals
  Connects product approaches and strategies to enterprise goals and value proposition.

Shared Services

Ankura develops tailored strategies and solutions to maximize employee skillsets, optimize core functions, and enhance service levels.

• Optimize Core Functions
  Helps organizations optimize their core functions.
• Enhance Service Levels
  Helps organizations enhance their service levels.
• Maximize Employee Skillsets
  Helps organizations make the most of employees’ skillsets.

Solution Implementation

Ankura advises clients on evaluating and selecting enterprise solutions, then supports implementation through integrated program and change management. Its experts help drive adoption and return on investment, with experience leading cross-functional evaluations, advising through contract negotiations, and managing implementation. For a global financial services firm, Ankura streamlined ERP deployment, reducing implementation time by 35% and saving $2 million per deployment.

• Coordinate Implementation And Organizational Change
  Brings program and change management together to support enterprise solution deployment.
• Select Enterprise Solutions With Expert Guidance
  Provides expert input throughout solution evaluation and selection, including contract negotiations.
• Drive Adoption And Increase Return On Investment
  Supports effective adoption of selected solutions and focuses implementation on increasing return on investment.
• Accelerate ERP Deployment And Reduce Costs
  A streamlined approach can improve implementation efficiency and reduce deployment time and costs.
• Align Teams And Improve Performance Transparency
  Supports collaboration, ownership, and transparent performance management throughout implementation.

Capital Project & Construction Advisory

Ankura provides advisory services to contractors, owners, architects, engineers, insurers, investors, lenders, and their counsel to manage execution risks throughout the capital project lifecycle. The service supports capital investment outcomes through organizational advisory, process improvement, performance enhancement, and project delivery strategies and controls. Ankura evaluates practices, recommends improvements, supports implementation, and helps establish governance, policies, and operating, delivery, and reporting models.

• Strengthen Project Delivery Controls
  Helps clients establish governance and controls to support project risk management and delivery.
• Identify And Implement Process Improvements
  Assesses practices, recommends targeted improvements, and supports their implementation.
• Increase Efficiency And Improve Performance
  Identifies opportunities and applies practical process enhancements to improve operating efficiency and business performance.
• Manage Execution Risks Across Project Lifecycles
  Provides advisory support to address execution risks, improve project operations, and implement enhancements.