Bankruptcy Law Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in the field of forensic accounting. He earned his BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is Certified as a Public Accountant, Management Accountant, and in Financial Forensics. He is active in his field as a member of several professional accounting societies including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and he has lectured and presented extensively on topics relating to forensic accounting. He currently serves as a Principal at a Forensic Accounting Firm in California, and as an Adjunct Professor of Forensic Accounting at a University in California.

This highly experienced forensic accountant is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He has over 20 years of experience with operations and oversight of financial reporting, accounting and audit functions (internal and external), primarily publicly-traded companies reporting in compliance with GAAP, GAAS and SEC regulations. He began his career as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche. Later, he worked at private companies as controller and chief financial officer, and a public company in SEC reporting. From 1997-2008, he was an in-house forensic accountant at three law firms in California. He has extensive experience with well-publicized alleged accounting frauds by public companies, including Enron, UnitedHealth, Dynegy, Dollar General, Honeywell, Oracle, Qwest and Gemstar-TV Guide. He also has led forensic investigations into numerous "audit failures." He has helped counsel recover and return to shareholders $2.4 billion in losses from alleged securities fraud, an average recovery of ~$55 million per case.

This expert is a CPA with over 30 years experience in forensic accounting and economics. He regularly serves as an expert witness to present economic damage calculations or other matters involving accounting, finance or business valuation. He is currently the principle founder of a financial and economics consulting firm.

This expert on Economics Damages has over 19 years of experience as an auditor and forensic accountant. He has extensive experience as an investigator and an expert witness. He obtained his BBA in Accounting from Texas State University. He is a certified CPA and Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor and is certified in Financial Forensics and Business Valuation.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in forensic accounting, focusing on the measurement of economic damages and litigation support. He received a BS in Business Administration and Accounting at Roosevelt University and is an active, certified Public Accountant, Global Management Accountant, Financial Forensic Specialist, and Fraud Examiner. This expert has experience across numerous industries including agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and healthcare. He has participated in numerous seminars involving the measurement of economic damages to the legal profession, insurance industry personnel, and the private sector. He has utilized his expertise in numerous legal proceeding including a matter in which he was hired to quantify damages in a product liability matter involving agricultural growing materials purchased by a cooperative of farmers. Such experience has made him proficient in the commercial agricultural operations, agricultural cooperatives, and other farm services. He is currently a Partner at an international forensic accounting firm.

Education: AB, Economics, Lafayette College; M.S., Accountancy, NYU Stern; A.P.C., Investment Management, NYU Stern Professional certifications: CPA; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA); AICPA-Accredited, Business Valuation (ABV); AICPA-Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF); Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE): Certified Management Accountant (CMA); Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA); Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP); Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV); Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Member: AICPA; CFA Institute; CFA Society New York; Turnaround Management Association (former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee); American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts; + others Delivered lectures and seminars to financial and business professionals in more than 60 cities throughout the U.S. and more than 20 countries on five continents outside the U.S.

This Certified Public Accountant has a wealth of experience in accounting matters, business valuation, and audits. He earned his MBA from Columbia University and served for many years as a Managing Partner at Arthur Young & Company. He has served as a forensic accountant since 1980.

This highly qualified expert has years of experience in financial forensics and fraud examination. He received his BA in political science from the University of California Riverside and his MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. He is certified as a valuation analyst and a fraud examiner. This expert has held several leadership positions in his field, including serving as a director for a top-25 national accounting and consulting firm and a principal in the litigation consulting and forensic accounting services practice group for one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the United States. He has served as an adjunct professor in economics, authored several published articles, and presented at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner's Global Fraud Conference. Currently, this expert is a partner at a litigation consulting and financial forensics firm in California.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of business valuation. He received his BA in economics from UC Berkeley and earned his MBA in finance at California State University. He is an accredited senior appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers. This expert has completed thousands of business valuations for medical practices throughout his career. His former positions include senior financial analyst for Allstate Insurance, senior valuation analyst for Henry & Horne, chief financial officer for Ideal Transitions, and manager of practice planning and valuation for Mercer Transitions. Currently, this expert serves as the president for a medical merger and acquisition consulting company in Arizona.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 20 years of experience in the field of forensic accounting. He earned his MFAcc in forensic accounting from the University of Toronto and holds several certifications, including public accountant, financial forensics, and forensic investigator. He is active in his field as a member of various associations, including the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Association of Certified Fraud Investigators, and the Alliance for Excellence in Investigative and Forensic Accounting. He formerly served as a forensic accountant for Ernst and Young and currently serves as a partner and forensic accountant for an accounting and advisory firm in Ontario.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 20 years of experience as a forensic accountant and auditor, with extensive experience in information technology, information systems, fraud, and damages. He received his BS in computer science from New York University before earning his MS in accounting from Pace University. This expert is certified as a public accountant, an information technology professional, an information systems manager, and a fraud examiner. He is active in his field as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Information System Audit & Control Association. He has previously been a partner at several accounting firms, such as Nasberg PLLC and Grassi & Co. CPAs. Currently, this expert is a partner at a valuation firm in New York, a consultant for an accounting and business consulting firm, and an adjunct professor at a New York university.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in global operations and supply chain management. His areas of expertise include profit and loss, business valuation, product reliability, customer service, sales and marketing, and safety and environmental regulations. He earned his BS in industrial engineering technology from the University of Poona in India before earning a certificate of process engineering management from Vincennes University in Paris and completing MBA courses at the University of Texas Dallas. He is an active member of the Locomotive Maintenance Officers Association. He began his career with PC Dynamics, Mwave Inc, serving as their engineering director for 7 years before transitioning to being the manufacturing consolidation project manager for Chromium Corporation. He went on to work with Chromium Corporation for nearly 20 years, serving as the director of business process development, the vice president of operations and business logistics, and the executive vice president of ELKCORP. This expert served as the president of Chromium Corporation for 10 years, leading the organization in the manufacturing of heavy engine's components for locomotive, marine, and stationary power supply units.

This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in his field. He earned his BA from Lehigh University. He then went on to earn an MS in financial economics from the University of London and his MBA from Northwestern University. He is an accredited senior appraiser and a certified patent valuation analyst. He is currently a business valuation consultant for a forensic and valuation services group in NY.

This highly-qualified forensic accounting expert is a CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with 20 years of experience performing fraud investigations, economic damages and lost profits calculations, and business valuation. She earned her BS in commerce from the University of Virginia and is active in her field as a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She was previously honored by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts as among the “40 Under Forty” who have made extraordinary advances in their field. This expert is currently a CPA and certified fraud examiner at a financial analysis firm where she specializes in damages calculations, including lost profit analysis, valuation, forensic accounting, and royalty and distribution audits.

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.

This expert has been in the accounting industry for nearly 30 years. A doctor of accounting, he regularly conducts continuing education seminars for organizations such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association, law enforcement agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. Widely published in the field, he was a member of the Editorial Board for the Certified Public Accountants Journal for 10 years and served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting for 4 years. A former Associate Professor of Accounting at Brigham Young University and Senior Forensic Accountant at Eide Bailly, LLP, this expert is now an Associate Professor of Accounting at another major university and is also a Partner at a forensic accounting firm that specializes in fraud detection, investigation, and litigation support services.

This expert has been providing forensic accounting, economic damages and business valuation services to attorneys and their clients for over 20 years. He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed an M.B.A. in Accounting and Finance. Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified in Financial Forensics and Fraud Examination, he is an active member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the former of which he serves on the Economic Damages Task Force. He has provided accounting and consulting services to businesses ranging from start-up entities to Fortune 100 companies, specializing in forensic accounting. Currently, this expert is a Partner at a major accounting firm and practices in the firm's forensic, litigation, and valuation services group. He is a frequent speaker on topics related to economic damages and fraud, and his written work on topics relevant to economic damage analysis, fraud investigations, and business valuation has appeared in publications such as "FVS Consulting Digest" and "CPA Insider".

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field of forensic accounting and fraud forensics, with an extensive background in fraud engagements, shareholder and partnership disputes, and other areas of investigative accounting. He earned his BS in accounting from Rutgers University and certified as a public accountant, valuation analyst, global management accountant, and fraud examiner. This expert is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the USA 500 Club. He has formerly served the managing director for multiple firms and as a professor of accounting at the graduate level. Currently, this expert serves as the partner-in-charge of the New York region at a public accounting and advisory services firm in New York.

For over 20 years, this expert has provided accounting and consulting services to businesses ranging from start-up entities to Fortune 100 companies. He specializes in complex litigation services, forensic accounting, and valuation services, and has testified more than 50 times at deposition, trial and alternative dispute venues. He is a CPA, is accredited in business valuation, and is certified in fraud examination and financial forensics. He serves on the economic damages task force of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. This expert is currently the partner of a public accounting firm in the firm's forensic, litigation and valuation services practice..

This expert has been working in the field of economics for over 40 years. A member of the National Association of Forensic Economists as well as the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, he has authored over 40 technical reports and book chapters and is extensively published in journals such as the "Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis". His background spans academic, corporate, and government positions. He taught Economics at Pennsylvania State University and Hartford University prior to holding several management positions with Aetna Life & Casualty, Inc. He then served as the Managing Director of Management & Strategy Analysis, Inc., directing professional staff on economic consulting projects and providing expert witness services to law clients and strategy consulting services to corporate clients. He also worked as the Regional Commissioner of the San Francisco Region of the Bureau of Labor Statics, wherein he led a large staff of professional economists in collecting, analyzing, and distributing economic information in an eight state area. Currently, this expert is the Managing Principal of an economic and litigation support consultancy.