Litigation & ADR Special Report 2014 | Page 9

Litigation & ADR Annual Report Emerging ADR trends Forensic accountants are seeing an increased focusing on implementing preventative mechanisms to manage and avoid conflicts from the very beginning As concerns about disclosure of information in domestic and international court litigation or arbitration increase, Alfonso Bravo and Marisa Yepes, both Directors at KPMG Forensic, are seeing an emerging trend for preventative Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms to avoid such disputes arising. Yepes is also seeing a trend for preventative mechanisms being deployed at the contract stage, as companies realise it is not only the first step of any single transaction or relationship between two parties – there are many pieces to a contract that come into play at around the same time. “What we are )͕