Allison Everhardt is a Managing Director based in Washington, DC. With regional expertise in the Americas, she has extensive experience managing complex cross-jurisdictional investigations on behalf of large multinational corporations, law firms, and financial institutions. She routinely manages and leads reputational due diligence, white-collar criminal and litigation support, anti-corruption, asset tracing, and internal investigations, during which she draws on her extensive experience living and working in Latin America and Europe. Notable Latin American investigations in which Allison has played a key role include investigations into alleged violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, significant pre-acquisition due diligence matters, and internal investigations.

• EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO NARDELLO & CO.

  Previously, Allison worked for a global risk advisory consultancy in London and Washington DC, where her focus was on anti-corruption and reputational due diligence investigations in the Americas. She also completed investigations in Europe, Africa, and Australasia, and authored articles analyzing regional corruption trends and developments. Before entering the investigations sector, Allison lived in Argentina, where she managed the local office of a regional nonprofit organization and taught English to senior executives at international oil and gas, consumer products, and engineering companies.

  Allison was a 2016–17 Penn Kemble Democracy Forum fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. As a fellow, she participated in monthly conversations with leading democracy practitioners, foreign policy experts, and government officials to discuss and explore the role of democracy and human rights within the context of a broad range of policy questions.

• Played a critical role when Nardello & Co. was retained by Grupo Televisa S.A.B. to conduct an investigation into claims made against executives in an anonymous letter sent to the board of directors. As a publicly traded company, Grupo Televisa publicly disclosed in its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission the results of the investigation as well as Nardello & Co.’s role in it.
• Supervised and led complex pre-acquisition due diligence investigations, with a focus on anti-corruption issues, in the oil and gas industries in Argentina and Brazil that involved in-depth research into dozens of entities and individuals.

Education

• MSc, Global Politics, London School of Economics & Political Science
• BA, Political Science, Vanderbilt University
• BA (Honors), Spanish, Vanderbilt University

Languages

• Spanish (fluent)
• Portuguese (advanced)

Professional Affiliations

• DC Volunteer Lawyers Project, junior board member