Lepatner is affiliated with a full-service, licensed private investigative firm, Proactive Integrity Associates, LLC (PIA). Led by Joseph Jaffe, a former state and federal prosecutor with more than 40 years of investigative experience, PIA provides an array services for attorneys, corporations, financial institutions, individuals, federal, state and local governments, private equity groups, venture capital firms, hedge funds and various other individuals and entities. PIA's investigative consulting services include, but are not limited to the following practice areas:

> Background Investigations:

• Pre-Transactional Due Diligence
• Witnesses, Experts and Juries
• Executive and Other Hires

> Fact Finding for Dispute Resolution and Intelligence Gathering

> Witness and Source Interviews

> Asset Identification and Tracing:

• Judgment Recovery
• Money Laundering Investigations
• Bankruptcy Fraud

> Fraud Investigations

> Internal Investigations:

• Employee Dishonesty or Misconduct
• Trade Secret, Intellectual Property and Confidential Information Theft
• Discrimination or Hostile Work Environment
• Non-Compete Agreement Breaches
• Whistleblower Allegations
• SEC-Related Inquiries

> Digital Forensics:

• Forensically Sound Collection of Electronic Data
• Processing, Analysis and Searches of Electronic Data

For more information about PIA's investigative services, please contact either Joseph Jaffe or Jonathan Newcomb at (212) 935-4400.