Brent Carlson

Director, Berkeley Research Group

San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley

Phone: +1 (510) 597-2490
Email: Brent.Carlson@thinkbrg.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brent-carlson-41ba692
Website: thinkbrg.com

Brent has helped companies ranging from emerging growth firms and their private equity sponsors to the Fortune/Global 500, both as an external consultant and in internal management roles. As a certified fraud examiner, Brent has conducted due diligence, post-acquisition assessments, and investigations into corporate fraud, corruption, and trade compliance matters across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the contexts of mergers and acquisitions, regulatory enforcement, litigation, international arbitration, and post-closing M&A disputes.

Brent is fluent in Mandarin Chinese with additional language capabilities in Japanese, French, and Lakota. In today’s rapidly evolving world, with increasing disruptions from new geopolitical realities and evolving regulatory pressures, Brent applies holistic, strategic, and fresh perspectives to mitigate risk and thus build and maintain value.

Brent is a frequent contributing author covering export controls and sanctions topics on the NYU Program on Corporate Compliance & Enforcement (“PCCE”) blog, where he launched the “Fresh Looks” series of articles with “When Loopholes Create Liability Pitfalls: A Fresh Look at Export Controls” which explores the implications of the full definition of “knowledge” under the EAR.