Managing Director, Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution

Company Overview

Hilco Global, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA, is a diversified financial services company that delivers integrated professional services and capital solutions that help clients maximize value and drive performance across the retail, commercial and industrial, real estate, manufacturing, brand and intellectual property sectors, and more. Hilco Global provides a range of customized solutions to healthy, stressed, and distressed companies to resolve complex situations and enhance long-term enterprise value. Hilco Global works to deliver the best possible result by aligning interests with clients and providing strategic advice and, in many instances, the capital required to complete the deal. Hilco Global is based in Northbrook, Illinois and has more than 850 professionals operating on four continents. Visit www.hilcoglobal.com.

What differentiates Hilco is the strength and breadth of its platform. The firm is trusted in high-stakes, complex, and often time-sensitive situations where financial, operational, strategic, and legal issues intersect. Hilco brings together deep experience, commercial judgment, and execution capability across the business lifecycle — from healthy companies seeking growth or strategic alternatives to stressed and distressed situations requiring decisive action.

Built on that foundation, Hilco Global is expanding its Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice. This growing practice advises clients on matters involving fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting and financial analysis, post-acquisition and other commercial disputes, bribery and corruption matters, asset tracing, investigative due diligence, litigation support, regulatory response, and other sensitive situations requiring rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and clear communication.

This is not a standalone niche practice being built in isolation. It is being developed within a powerful platform that already has deep client relationships, strong market credibility, and meaningful adjacency to restructuring, valuation, capital solutions, and other advisory capabilities. For the right professionals, that creates a rare opportunity: the chance to build within an established platform that already matters in the market.

Why Hilco Global

There are many firms that offer investigations and disputes work. Very few offer the combination of platform strength, market relevance, entrepreneurial upside, and cross-disciplinary opportunity that Hilco does.

Joining Hilco’s Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice means joining at a time of strong momentum. The practice is being actively built and expanded, with the benefit of Hilco’s broader brand, relationships, and capabilities across capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, advisory, and special situations.

For professionals who are ambitious, commercial, and excited by the idea of helping shape a market-facing practice, Hilco offers a differentiated proposition:

• A powerful platform behind the practice, with meaningful credibility and access across lenders, investors, boards, law firms, and corporate clients
• A true build opportunity — the chance to help shape a leading global investigations and disputes offering, not simply join a mature team with limited room to influence direction
• Complex, high-value matters at the intersection of accounting, finance, disputes, investigations, transactions, restructurings, and distressed situations
• Cross-platform opportunity, with natural adjacency to Hilco’s capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities
• Meaningful responsibility and career upside for professionals who combine technical excellence, sound judgment, and initiative

At Hilco, professionals are not joining a static organization. They are joining a platform with real market strength and the ambition to build a premier practice.

Position Overview

As a Managing Director in Hilco Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, you will serve as a senior business, client, and practice leader responsible for shaping the strategic direction and market profile of the practice. You will originate and expand significant client relationships, lead the firm’s most important and sensitive matters, and help build a premier global investigations and disputes offering within Hilco’s broader platform.

This is a role for proven leaders who combine technical credibility, commercial instinct, executive presence, and entrepreneurial drive. Managing Directors are expected not only to oversee sophisticated client work, but also to build teams, open markets, deepen external relationships, and create durable enterprise value for the practice and the broader Hilco platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Originate, lead, and expand significant client relationships across law firms, corporations, boards, lenders, investors, private equity sponsors, and other key market participants
• Serve as senior advisor on complex investigations, forensic accounting matters, regulatory inquiries, commercial disputes, post-acquisition matters, asset tracing assignments, and other high-stakes situations
• Lead flagship engagements and provide executive oversight on the practice’s most complex, high-risk, and high-value matters
• Shape practice strategy, market positioning, service offerings, hiring priorities, and growth initiatives in partnership with firm leadership
• Drive revenue growth through business development, cross-selling, relationship expansion, and development of new opportunities across Hilco’s platform
• Build and strengthen trusted relationships with external counsel, boards, executives, financial sponsors, lenders, and other senior decision-makers
• Mentor and develop Directors, Associate Directors, Managers, and broader team members, helping to build a strong leadership pipeline and high-performance culture
• Collaborate across Hilco’s capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, advisory, and special situations capabilities to deliver integrated client solutions
• Represent the practice in the market through thought leadership, speaking engagements, recruiting, and other brand-building activities
• Help define the long-term culture, standards, operating model, and commercial trajectory of a growing global practice

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, business, or a related discipline required; candidates with master’s degrees (e.g., MAcc, MBA, MSF, or similar) are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized
• Approximately 15+ years of relevant experience in investigations, forensic accounting, disputes, litigation support, restructuring advisory, valuation, compliance, or related professional services
• Strong track record of originating and expanding client relationships and generating meaningful revenue in a professional services environment
• Significant experience advising senior executives, boards, law firms, investors, lenders, and other high-level stakeholders on complex and sensitive matters
• Deep technical credibility in one or more areas such as fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting, damages, asset tracing, post-acquisition disputes, regulatory response, compliance, or financial analysis
• Demonstrated success leading large teams, complex portfolios of matters, and strategic practice-building initiatives
• Excellent executive communication, writing, presentation, and relationship-management skills
• Strong commercial judgment, leadership presence, and ability to operate effectively in entrepreneurial, high-growth environments
• CPA, CFE, CFA, CAMS, CFF, ABV, JD, or other relevant credentials are valued depending on specialization
• Willingness to travel based on client and business needs

Candidates are expected to be be in office and work primarily in person with their teams. Travel may be required depending on client needs and engagement demands.

For exceptional candidates, other U.S. locations may be considered where there is strategic alignment with the practice and the broader Hilco platform.

Work Arrangement

Hilco Global believes that complex advisory work benefits from collaboration, mentorship, and real-time problem solving. As such, professionals in the Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice are expected to work primarily from the office, collaborating closely with their teams and colleagues across Hilco’s broader platform.

While flexibility may be available when business needs permit, the practice operates as an office-based team environment to support high-quality client service, professional development, and team cohesion.

Annual base salary gross: $30,000-400,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end of Hilco’s salary for this position based on geography. Actual base salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base pay is one component of Hilco’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include cash bonuses, long term incentives, health insurance, accident and life insurance, and retirement benefits.  

Hilco Global is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.

Hilco Global strives to comply with all applicable local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations. In addition, Hilco Global is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes a variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health. https://hilcoglobal.com/careers-about/