Capital Market Expert Witnesses in Vermont

This expert currently serves as Owner and Founder of a hedge fund advisory firm that provides various services including due diligence evaluation, accounting, and compliance consulting. He previously worked in various positions as an accountant, a capital markets consultant, CFO, and Managing Director for a hedge fund consulting group. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst with a degree in Accounting from Hofstra University.

This highly qualified financial expert has 30+ years of professional experience at leading firms. Currently he is a Prinicipal at R. G. Quintero & Co. and a Managing Director at Chartered Capital Advisers. Previously he, was an investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., an insolvency and restructuring advisor at Zolfo, Cooper & Co, and also started and ran the first valuation practice of KPMG. This expert has performed 1000+ valuations of business, financial instruments, intangible assets, and other assets and liabilities and he has testified as an expert witness on more than 60 occasions in courts throughout the U.S. He is a member several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Turnaround Management Association, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. This expert has numerous certifications. He has ten professional licenses including CPA and CFA. He earned his MS in Accountancy and an APC in Investment Management at New York University.

This expert has over 20 years of experience in advising asset managers of all sizes and complexities across fund and investment adviser formation, securities, corporate, regulatory, fund marketing, fund operations, investor due diligence, compliance and best practices front to back office infrastructure including legal negotiations and operational set up with various trading counter-parties and service providers such as fund administrators, prime brokers. He received his B.S. and Master's Degrees at Pace University in addition to a J.D. from Quinnipiac University. His extensive experience in fund management includes working at both Nikko Alternative Asset Management and CooperNeff Advisors where he was part of the executive business management team and Chief Legal Officer with roles and responsibilities across multi-strategy platforms and the due diligence of managers and related service providers. He also co-founded Anchor Risk Advisors, a hedge fund trading in catastrophic weather linked fixed income instruments, where he managed enterprise matters including funds and managed accounts. He currently serves as Managing Partner for a legal and business development consulting firm for asset management firms.

This expert has over 30 years of experiences with securities, investments, and insurance at the financial advisor, supervisory, and managing principal level. He has his producer's license in life, accident, and health insurance, is a certified financial planner, a chartered financial consultant, and a chartered life underwriter. He is also a member of numerous prestigious organizations in the insurance and financial services fields. This expert is is a former agency manager at John Hancock Financial Services, former managing principal at Waddell and Reed and a former Adjunct Professor in the department of finance at the University of Connecticut. He is currently an adjunct professor in financial management at a top university and the founder/consultant at a securities, insurance, and financial services expert witness and litigation consulting firm.

This expert is an investment professional with over 25 years of experience in the securities industry, including investment management responsibility, broker-dealer management, due diligence oversight for sophisticated products, financial analysis, and high net worth sales expertise. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he has worked in the financial services and investment advisory business for over twenty years. Beginning his professional career in 1984 as an Analyst with First Chicago, he was also associated with Wellington Management in Boston, where he served as a Vice President and worked in pension fund asset management. He has also worked as a private banker at Fleet Private Clients Group, where he assisted high net worth clients establish customized investment portfolios. In addition, this expert worked for over ten years as an executive at Chubb Securities and Chubb Life Insurance Company, where he managed institutional accounts and oversaw the direct investment in venture capital, real estate, and bonds and equities. Currently, this expert is the owner of a registered investment advisory firm, specializing in customized portfolio management for individuals and companies.

Since graduating from Northwestern Law School, this expert has worked as a corporate attorney for over 12 years. He has extensive experience advising as to SEC-registered and exempt transactions, including initial public offerings, common and preferred equity offerings and debt offerings. Additionally, he has worked in large, prestigious law firms such as Sidley Austin and also worked at the U.S. Treasury Department on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He currently is the founder of a law firm in New York City that specializes in offering corporate and securities law assistance to middle-market businesses and venture capital/private equity funds, frequently advising as to registration, disclosure, compliance and operational issues. The firm also prepares and negotiates a variety of contracts for its clients, from asset purchase agreements to non-disclosure agreements to real estate contracts of sale. He is an adjunct professor at a NJ Law School, where he teaches various corporate law-related courses, has had articles published in the ABA Business Law Today journal, and regularly teaches continuing legal education classes (CLE).

This expert specializes in structured finance, derivatives, securities and finance matters. His experience includes cash, synthetic and hybrid collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), asset-backed securities (ABS) of various types, structured investment vehicles (SIVs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), credit default swaps (CDS), interest rate swaps, credit-linked notes (CLNs), repurchase ("repo") agreements and securities fraud. As a transactional attorney he has been an Associate, Special Counsel or Partner at several of the leading transactional law firms in the United States, including Shearman & Sterling; Mayer, Brown & Platt; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. As an expert witness and/or consultant, he has worked with many of the leading litigation firms, and leading litigation departments of full-service firms, in the country, including Berger Montague; Chapman and Cutler; Kirby McInerney; Labaton Sucharow; Patterson Belknap; Robbins Geller; Scott + Scott; and Williams & Connolly.

This highly qualified financial services technology expert has over 35 years of professional experience. His expertise includes systems development, integration, infrastructure, information security and operations in the trading, investment, banking, and asset management businesses. He earned his BS in computer science from the City University of New York and is a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University. He holds certifications as an information systems security professional and is a member of prestigious organizations such as the Hedge Fund Technology Group and the Project Management Institute. He has spoken at various financial IT conferences on key and emerging technologies, services, and issues with those in attendance. For the past 10 years, he has served as a board member of Wall Street Technology Association and currently is a special advisor. Formerly, he has served as the chief information officer at Caxton Associates LLC, and the chief technology officer at Harvard Management Co. and Annaly Capital Management. Currently, this expert is the chief information officer at a NY-based IT advisory and consulting firm.

This highly-qualified expert has 25 years of experience in the field of finance and securities. He received his BA in economics and philosophy from Elon College before earning his MA in economics from the New School for Social Research, where he also completed PhD-level coursework. This expert is a FINRA/Wharton certified regulatory and compliance professional and FINRA arbitrator, and holds a Series 65 securities license. He is active in his field as a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. He has formerly as an administrative assistant, financial consultant, and vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co., as well as the managing member of both Duval Asset Management and Heterodox Capital Partners. Currently, this expert is the CEO and CIO of an investment advisory firm in New York, as well as the managing partner of a securities litigation consultancy.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of risk management and insurance and asset management. He earned his BA in the history of science and his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the Professional Risk Managers International Association, the Buy Side Risk Managers Group, the Investment Company Institute, and the Boston Security Analysts Society. In addition, this expert is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with over 10 publications. He formerly held many roles including portfolio manager of derivates & mortgage-backed securities at Allstate Life Insurance, head of derivative strategy and head of alternative investments at Putnam Investments, and board member of TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Company. This expert is currently a risk manager at a federal reserve bank in Massachusetts.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and corporate valuation, with additional specialization in energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors. After earning his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he went on to become an analyst in corporate finance at Wheat First Butcher Singer and then an associate in mergers and acquisitions at Rothschild Inc. Subsequently, this expert took on many leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions, including as vice president at Prudential Securities Inc., director at UBS Investment Bank, and managing director at RBC Capital Markets. He has also served as managing director of energy and natural resources at BNP Paribas and chief financial officer at ZaZa Energy Corporation. Currently, this expert is the founder and group head of an energy and infrastructure-focused banking firm based in New York and Texas.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field, primarily focusing on the regulation of reinsurance, as well as traditional, financial, capital market and administrative reinsurance. He is a licensed reinsurance intermediary and an ARIAS-US certified arbitrator, and is active in his field as a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and as a member of several organizations including the American Academy of Actuaries and the Actuarial Standards Board. Prior to his position as president of a consulting firm, he served as the vice president of reinsurance at Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the managing director of Lehman Brothers Holdings, and the vice president of client solutions at General Re Life Corporation.

This expert has over 15 years of experience in financial services, consulting with Financial Advisors, Registered Investment Advisors, and Broker-Dealers.