Accounting Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This highly qualified expert has nearly 25 years of experience in economics, finance, and accounting. He received his BA in economics from the University of Chicago, where he also earned his MBA in finance and accounting and his PhD in business economics. This expert is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Economics Association. He has formerly served as the principal for Chicago Partners, managing principal for the Analysis Group, and chief economist for the New York State Attorney General's Office. He has also taught graduate-level economics courses as a lecturer of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, a lecturer in the economics department and graduate school of business at the University of Chicago, and a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Duke University. Currently, this expert serves as a senior consultant for an economic consulting firm based in Illinois.

This expert focuses on accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuation and investigations. He has experience in lost profits/earnings, business interruption claims, analysis of financial transactions and balances, Court-ordered accounting, bankruptcy, fraud examinations, investigations and the reconstruction of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified financial information. This expert provides consulting and litigation support services to trial lawyers, trustees, examiners, receivers, business owners and managers and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine financial analysis, economic damages determination, valuation issues, tracing procedures and/or other applications of financial forensics to assist in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes. He has more than 35 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations in diverse engagements and numerous industries, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. He has participated in public hearings and alternative dispute resolutions, submitted expert reports in several jurisdictions and testified in arbitration, regulatory proceedings and State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts.