Kroll History: 93 Years of Expertise

Explore Our Firm's History
From our storied beginnings as "Duff & Phelps" in 1932 - to a new firm and expanded capabilities - and now One Team, One Kroll. Our evolution over nearly 100 years is just the beginning.
Why Our History Matters to You
Experience shapes expertise. From pioneering valuation methodologies during the Great Depression to advising on today's most complex global transactions, from corporate restructurings to cyber threat intelligence, every challenge we've faced has refined our ability to solve yours.
When you choose Kroll, you're not just hiring consultants. You're accessing nearly a century of accumulated expertise in financial advisory and risk management, market proven strategies refined through thousands of engagements, and integrated capabilities that connect financial insight with risk intelligence. Our history isn't just our story, it's your competitive advantage.
Ready to benefit from our 93 years of experience?
Whether you're valuing a landmark transaction, navigating a crisis, seizing an opportunity, or planning for the future, Kroll is ready to apply nearly a century of expertise to your unique challenge.
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Investment Banking
Kroll’s Investment Banking practice specializes in middle-market transactions, offering tailored M&A advisory and capital-raising services to private equity firms, corporations, and business owners.
Transaction Opinions
Our Transaction Opinions solutions span fairness opinions, solvency opinions, ESOP/ERISA advisory, board and special committee advisory, and complex valuations.
Valuation Services
When companies require an objective and independent assessment of value, they look to Kroll.
Cyber and Data Resilience
Kroll merges elite security and data risk expertise with frontline intelligence from thousands of incident responses and regulatory compliance, financial crime and due diligence engagements to make our clients more cyber- resilient.
Compliance and Regulation
End-to-end governance, advisory and monitorship solutions to detect, mitigate and remediate security, legal, compliance and regulatory risk.
Business Services
Expert provider of complex administrative solutions for capital events globally. Our services include claims and noticing administration, debt restructuring and liability management services, agency and trustee services and more.