Iowa Ledger (2021) - Tippie College of Business

Shawn Fox (BBA96) is glad he was an attentive student. Advice from now
Emeritus Associate Professor Richard Tubbs not only saved him from possible
prison time, but set him on track for an exciting career, one in which he often
plays the leading role in courtroom drama and fraud investigations.
Fox is the principal and founder of
Fox Forensic Accounting, a boutique
forensic accounting advisory firm with a
reputation as a leader in cases of litigation
between feuding business partners,
angry shareholders, or divorcing spouses.
Fox is based in Chicago, but his team
extends to Missouri, Texas, and California.
In 2013, Fox helped win a $150 million
settlement for a nonprofit healthcare
foundation in the Midwest. The win,
which involved nearly 3 million documents
and was covered by The New York Times,
cemented Fox’s reputation as a star expert
witness in forensic accounting.
Since then, he’s helped win dozens of
other cases (and millions of dollars more)
for attorneys and their clients; people who
were the victims of patent infringement,
lost profits, or misconduct by a financial
lender. In a recent case in California, Fox
served as the expert witness in a trial of
an employer suing a former management
team who used stolen trade secrets to
launch a competing company and siphon
clients away from their former associates.
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