This highly qualified expert has provided valuation and corporate finance consulting services since 1987. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and he is a member of several prestigious associations including the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Society of Appraisers. He previously worked as the Senior Managing Director of American Appraisal Associates Inc where he was the Chair of Healthcare Industry Practice. Currently, this expert ...
This accounting consultant is a CPA with an M.B.A. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Accounting from Ohio State University. Early in his career, he was an Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He now works as a consultant to public companies on matters including SEC compliance, U.S. GAAP, international accounting standards, and control of international operations. He produces training content has led 250 ...
This expert has over 25 years of experience in military intelligence, counterintelligence, and security program management. He earned two MS degrees in strategic intelligence and defense strategic studies from the National Defense Intelligence College and Missouri State University, respectively. He has extensive experience with weapon threat and defense, serving the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency and Organization as the deputy inspector general and chief of ...
This highly-qualified securities expert has over 30 years of experience in equity securities and trading. He earned his BA from Saint Lawrence University and holds the Series 7, 9, 10, 24, 55, 63, & 99 licenses. He has held a number of distinguished roles, including the head of global equity sales at ABN AMRO, the CEO and COO of Harborside Securities, and the head of equities at Fidelity Capital Market Services. He has supervised and managed large and diverse sales and ...
This well-credentialed security expert has over 20 years of experience as a security executive, leader, advisor, and strategist. He earned his BS in criminal justice from Western Illinois University before completing his MA in business and security management at Webster University. He is a certified protection professional, risk assessment methodologist, building security professional, security consultant, and crisis prevention instructor. This expert has authored over ...
This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in computer security, digital forensics, and digital currency, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. He earned his BS in computer science and his MS in data communications networks and distributed systems from the University College London. In addition, this expert holds 3 patents and has published 7 books involving digital currency and bitcoin. He has held several roles throughout his career including being an IT ...
This expert has over 30 years of experience in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and operational security management. He is certified as a security guard instructor, a peace officer instructor, and a protection professional. He has published several articles and a book titled “Protection Technology: Vendor Selection & Nightmare Avoidance". Currently, he is the founder and CEO of an independent protection consulting firm specializing in counterterrorism & operational ...
This expert has extensive experience in naval security and the international and domestic defense industry. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the US Naval Academy. During his 37-year career with the Navy, he served as a senior naval officer, as a director of warfare requirements, and as a military commander for the Iceland Defense Force. This expert then went on to serve as the corporate direction of naval aviation programs at Lockheed Martin and as the ...
This well-credentialed expert has 25 years of experience as a technologist with experience in government and finance with specific cybersecurity domain expertise as a CTO, CISO, and systems architect. He is skilled in cybersecurity, compliance, computer and data forensics, data and log analysis, evidence extraction, electronic discovery, network security, hacker breach detection, and evidence gathering. Formerly, he has served as a senior architect for TrueCar, a senior ...
This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in cyber law and security and is a practicing attorney. He earned his BS and MS in information systems from the University of Alabama and Grantham University. This expert then went on to earn his JD from Birmingham Law School and complete two PhD programs: one in management from Walden University and the other in business administration from Northcentral University. He is a member of the privacy and computer ...
This highly-qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in the law enforcement and private security industry. He earned his BS in political science and his MS in criminal justice from the University of Central Florida. He is a licensed security officer and security manager and stays active in his field as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security and the Gated Community Security Managers Association. Formerly, this expert held positions as a ...
This highly-qualified economics and finance expert has over 30 years of experience in his field and specializes in the topics of securities and class-action litigation, corporate finance and governance, and the valuation of public and private companies. He earned his MBA in finance and applied economics from the University of Rochester and his PhD in finance from the University of Washington. He is currently an executive board member of the National Association of ...
A California federal court has dismissed a securities class action related, in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic. Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled that the defendant could not have anticipated the extent of the pandemic at the time of their January…
Following a volatile trading week, Robinhood now faces a class action after it restricted users from trading a handful of stocks—including those for GameStop. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York on January 28, 2021, alleges Robinhood…
Decision Diagnostics Corp., a diagnostic testing company, has been named as the defendant in the first coronavirus-related securities lawsuit of the new year. The case may also be the first coronavirus-related lawsuit filed in the wake of an SEC enforcement…
Deutsche Bank recently agreed to pay over $130 million in a settlement involving two separate claims—that Deutsche Bank paid bribes for overseas business and that it was involved in the manipulation of metal markets. The settlement’s terms also include a…
Video game development company CD Projekt S.A. is facing a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging violations of U.S. securities laws. The lawsuit focuses on claims that investors purchased securities in the company under false and misleading statements about its much…
In what could become a new COVID-19 litigation strategy, a shareholder class action lawsuit was filed recently against a publicly-traded prison and reentry facility management company, Geo Group, claiming violations of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. The shareholder…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: McBeth v. Porges Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 195094 In this financial dispute case, the defendant hedge fund challenged the qualifications of the plaintiff’s…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Remington v. Newbridge Sec. Corp. Citation: 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15867 In this financial dispute case, a FINRA expert’s testimony is challenged for allegedly lacking…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: UBS Fin. Servs. v. Bounty Gain Enters., Inc. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57502 Because FINRA regulations are not law, but rather the rules of…
Court: United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Sec. Investor Prot. Corp. v. N. Am. Clearing, Inc. Citation: 2012 Bankr. LEXIS 2041 Facts The plaintiff, a trustee of the debtor, a…
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Jurisdiction:Â Federal Case Name: SEC v. Life Partners Holdings, Inc. Citation: 854 F.3d 765 Facts The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought this enforcement action against defendant Life Partners Holdings,…
This is a securities class action case on behalf of purchasers of a company’s common stock from the company’s initial public offering over the course of 5 years. It was alleged that the company manipulated its performance by engaging in…
This case involves a dispute regarding the management of employee 401(k) profit sharing retirement plans. An investment advisory firm was tasked with managing investments and overseeing the fund. Allegedly, the investment advisory firm failed to diversify the investments of the…
This case involves the head of trading at a large hedge fund who was wrongfully terminated during an SEC probe. He had been implicated for misconduct by his previous employer and the claim required investigation. After the investigation, the head of…
This case involves a company that was fined $50 million by the Securities Exchange Commission for secretly trading its own program in its dark pool trading system. The Securities Exchange Commission found that the company misused information from its dark…