Arpi Lal is a partner at Ernst & Young LLP. She leads the EY Forensics team in New York City and has almost 20 years of experience assisting clients with investigations and advisory services. Arpi focuses on engagements in the financial services industry serving a diverse set of clients, including regional and global commercial and retail banks, private equity firms and broker-dealers.

She has extensive financial crime experience in the areas of fraud, anti-bribery, AML and sanctions. Her skill set includes program review, investigations, suspicious activity reporting, customer diligence and training. Arpi has developed and led program reviews and remediated gaps, including conducting historical lookbacks and investigations. She has led numerous teams through the process of investigating transactions for potential implications of fraud, money laundering or sanctions evasion, and worked with her clients to report on potentially suspicious activity.

Arpi was recognized as the 2023 EY Working Mother of the Year.