Mergers And Acquisitions Expert Witnesses
What is a mergers and acquisitions expert witness?
Mergers and acquisitions expert witness candidates typically have a background and expertise in accounting, corporate governance, business law, investment banking, and/or finance. A mergers and acquisitions expert witness needs to possess the ability to provide expert testimony in a manner such that a judge and jury can understand the evidence. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, law firms may request a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a mergers and acquisitions expert witness?
Mergers and acquisitions can require complex business contracts, and outside experts are often called upon to assist with consulting, risk management, business valuation, due diligence, and/or negotiation. Businesses involved in major transactions may face a shareholder dispute or other litigation trying to either obstruct or enforce a transaction.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a corporate finance term describing the consolidation of companies or assets. Assets can be intangible, such as intellectual property, or tangible as in real estate. An acquisition involves the purchase of an entire firm (or business unit), where the entity maintains its structure, but now has a parent company; this parent company would have ownership of stock, equity interests or assets. A merger is the combining of two firms, which form a new legal entity. Mergers or acquisitions can allow businesses to grow, downsize, or change the nature of their business or competitive position. Brand recognition, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets are all important aspects of a mergers and acquisitions business transaction.
Mergers and acquisitions expert witness case examples
Representing a plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for litigation matters requiring corporate transactions litigation consulting. Examples include:
- succession planning,
- investment banker fraud investigation,
- joint ventures,
- financial reporting issues, or
- asset or business valuation.
What litigation support work might a mergers and acquisitions expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support services by a mergers and acquisitions expert could include corporate valuations, financial consulting, economic damages, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and/or expert witness testimony. In addition, law firms may request a forensic accounting expert or valuation analyst for pre-litigation consultant work.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a mergers and acquisitions expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Mergers And Acquisitions Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Mergers And Acquisitions experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Mergers And Acquisitions landscape.
Expert Witness #247274
This expert is a rare combination of an expert who has substantial experience as a top executive on both sides of the commercial lending transaction. This expert has been a commercial banking consultant concentrating on issues involving lending, mergers & acquisitions and other complex transactions for banks and private equity companies. This expert's commercial realty experience provided the lending/financing experience in large multi-family development projects in 15 states. This expert's expertise in the lending field gave the express knowledge of when to renegotiate loans, and when to forgo the process. This expert's business acumen has opened the door to a number of business opportunities in the commercial sector, but banking, lending and loan syndication experience comprise the bulk of this expert's professional experience. This expert presents well, is well written, and speaks eloquently.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #253430
This expert is an accredited business valuation consultant in the Litigation, Forensic, and Valuation Services Group of a nationally recognized leading consultancy. This expert is an executive with many years of experience in valuation, M&A, corporate finance, forensic accounting, litigation support and expert testimony.
This expert's practice includes dozens of engagements over the years related to partnership and other business disputes requiring forensic accounting, damages analysis and business valuation. These disputed matters have often involved companies in the wholesale and retail food industry, shareholder disputes, mergers and acquisitions, buy/sell agreements, and estate planning. This expert has also valued partial equity interests and stock options. This expert provides fair value financial analysis including ASC 805 purchase price allocations and valuations of intangible assets such as trade names/brands, customer relationships, royalties, patents and technology. This expert has also performed lost profits and financial damages analyses.
This expert worked as an independent consultant specializing in business valuation and litigation support, and has spent time working among the ranks of the Big Four. This expert also has experience in investment banking, corporate development, and venture capital investments.
This expert has the distinction of being an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in business valuation with the American Society of Appraisers. This expert is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #253802
This expert is Managing Director of the Valuation Advisory group of a well-known independent business advisory consultancy. This expert has extensive experience in the field of valuation, litigation and related expert testimony, and mergers & acquisitions. Specializing in shareholder disputes, fraudulent conveyance matters, transaction disputes, and bankruptcy related valuation litigation, this expert has valued well over 1,000 private companies including hundreds of real estate holding companies requiring detailed review of the terms of the operating agreements and the factors that impact value, purchase consideration, and the terms of the buyout. These valuations have been done both in and out of the context of litigation. This expert has also been involved in dozens of valuations where shareholder oppression was being alleged and impacted the process. This expert has testified in two of the largest shareholder disputes among real estate family holding companies. Though the structures of the companies were quite different, both were valuations done in the context of a buyout of minority owners and involved oppression claims. One of the matters had one company that owned many properties, and the other had over 50 legal entities that owned over 50 properties. This expert valued each legal entity, including the application of valuation discounts.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #260208
This expert is an expert in applied finance and energy matters with many years of experience in complex commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory proceedings. This expert has been retained as an expert to testify in international and domestic arbitration, and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, US Tax Court, US Federal Court, and US Bankruptcy Court, the National Energy Board in Canada, as well as state and provincial public utilities boards in the US and Canada. In the oil and gas sectors, this expert has consulted on rate matters, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, contract disputes, valuation and product pricing. This expert has served as an expert in regulatory hearings and has also carried out studies of the reasonableness of gas supply agreements in various jurisdictions and quantified damages in connection with the early termination of such agreements
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #260593
This expert brings to the table many years of transactional, public and private commercial and real estate finance, legal and bank consulting experience. This expert currently provides a range of financial services to financial institutions, borrowers and domestic and foreign private and institutional investors in connection with risk management, structuring, placing and conducting due diligence in commercial and real estate financing transactions. This expert serves as an expert witness and provides litigation support in cases involving contract disputes and complex public and commercial finance matters involving legal malpractice, credit facilities and debtor and creditor rights.
Based upon experience representing banks, finance companies, borrowers, purchasers and sellers and public entities in conventional and innovative financings, this expert provides select litigation support and expert services in contract disputes, commercial and residential real estate, lender liability, legal malpractice, public finance, complex lending and credit facilities, and financial fraud cases. This expert's experience spans many years of due diligence, structuring, closing and restructuring public and commercial financial transactions on behalf of lenders; county, state and federal authorities and issuers; underwriters; finance companies; private equity and hedge fund investors; and borrowers.
This expert has provided legal, advisory and consulting services to companies, financial institutions, state banking regulators and the federal government in emerging credit risk management techniques, developing "best practice" underwriting and due diligence guidelines and oversight procedures, bank mergers and acquisitions, special assets and work-outs, and developing regulatory compliant commercial lending policies, processes and procedures to meet financial crisis concerns and emerging laws and regulations.
This expert has served as an expert in cases involving lender liability, legal malpractice, mergers and acquisitions, complex public and commercial lending and leasing transactions, Whole Bank Acquisitions and Shared-Loss matters, fraud and gross negligence, creditor's rights, bankruptcy, and other matters requiring niche lending and contract expertise. Three of these cases were nationally recognized and several were cases of first impression.
This expert has also acted as an interim executive of several companies involved in turn-arounds including a real estate development company. This expert has assisted a number of companies financing efforts offshore and domestically including the capital raising efforts of approved EB5 Regional centers.
This expert has practiced law for many years for a number of law firms.
This expert has been a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, Turn Around Management Association, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association, Commercial Finance Association, Association of Corporate Growth, Risk Management Association, a State Bankers Association, and a Development Counsel.
This expert has lectured and taught on a variety of topics, including lender liability; cross-border transactions; Sarbanes Oxley/FASB; Equipment Leasing; Factoring; Asset Based Lending; Ship Mortgages and finance; real estate development, special assets and creditors' rights; commercial loan documentation; and credit risk management in commercial loan portfolios and shared-loss compliance.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #253891
This expert serves as a director of an independent business advisory and transaction services consultancy. This expert is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Accredited in Business Valuations (ABV), and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) and has expertise in tax, accounting, litigation support, business valuation, complex data analysis, financial modeling and has developed various financial modeling tools. This expert has been involved in a wide range of litigation consulting services, providing expertise in the quantification of economic damages in matters ranging from patent and trademark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, shareholder disputes, business interruption claims, professional malpractice, and contract claims. In connection with these services, this expert regularly performs fact finding and discovery assistance, lost profit calculations, reasonable royalty rate calculations, business valuations, lost earnings and wages computations, and other financial analyses. This expert's business valuation experience includes valuations for business disputes, shareholder agreements, mergers and acquisitions, divorce, and prenuptial agreement purposes. The valuations have encompassed non-marketable, controlling and minority interests in corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. This expert brings to the table many years of accounting experience including supervising, reviewing and preparing financial reports, budgets, forecasts, projections, and business plans. This expert has been a speaker at professional conferences on topics including intellectual property damages and business valuations. This expert has been on the MACPA's planning committee for the Litigation and Business Valuation Annual Conference, and the Litigation Mock Trial, and the Fraud Issues Conference. This expert has also volunteered as an expert witness in the Institute for Continuing Legal Education's Deposition Skills Workshop.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #257482
After many years as a brokerage and compliance executive, this expert has been an independent consultant and expert witness with a focus on matters involving: FINRA Compliance Support, Conversion, Strategic Project Management, Correspondent Clearing Platform Selection, Broker/Dealer Firm Restructuring-Efficiency Evaluations and Implementations, Contract Negotiations, Securities Processing Platforms, and Mergers & Acquisitions. This expert worked for many years in a senior management role for a large, multi-national clearing firm. This expert also served as the President and CEO of an Independent Broker Dealer and RIA firm, where this expert was responsible for ensuring compliance and regulatory requirements were properly implemented to support a retail-based business. As such, this expert is very familiar with the issues related to suitability, supervisory structures, written supervisory procedures (WSPs), due diligence, and complex products.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #248543
This investment banking corporate and transactions expert has over 25 years of experience in senior investment banking transactional leadership, execution, and profit-and-loss responsibility, including extensive work at a number of global investment banks. Executive responsibilities have included recruiting senior professionals, being recruited for senior capital markets positions, serving on compensation committees, and serving as an outside director of a privately held investment bank and broker-dealer for over 10 years. This expert also conducted a securities industry Mergers & Acquisitions practice that led to over 40 advisory assignments.
This expert has taught investment banking and capitalism courses for decades, is well-published, and authored a securities industry primer on the conduct of underwritten public offerings. This expert has been active in securities industry association and self-regulatory organization affairs, including service on many committees. This expert is an experienced expert witness, having testified over 15 times in over 60 matters in various courts and at FINRA hearings.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #262339
This FINRA arbitration expert holds a Juris Doctor and is a former federal enforcement attorney with extensive experience in regulatory compliance and white-collar defense. This expert consults on internal investigations, enforcement matters, regulatory issues, and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions involving complex regulatory structures.
This expert can explain standard practices within the legal industry for evaluating arbitrators, expectations placed on law firms regarding arbitrator due diligence, and how deviations from those standards may constitute negligence or complicity in a breach of duty. This expert can also explain regulatory and legal fiduciary duties, including the duties of care and loyalty, and assess whether conduct breached those duties, including circumstances involving heightened duties for attorneys specializing in regulatory matters.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and consultant.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #265411
This trademark damages expert is a founding principal at an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in IP valuation, IP strategy, and expert testimony related to IP damages and licensing customs and practices, with over 20 years of experience in the field.
This expert calculates damages for copyright, trademark, and publicity rights infringement. Experience includes social media and Internet disputes, defamation, marketing strategy analysis, and royalty rate determinations. This expert has served as a named expert in over 100 cases, been deposed over 30 times, and provided trial testimony over 10 times.
This expert is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and has served on committees for prominent trademark, domain-name, copyright, and social-media legal and professional associations.
Trademarks and brands are often key assets in mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, and licensing transactions. This expert understands that trademark valuation can be a significant factor in determining reasonable royalty rates for licensing agreements. Trademark valuation can also provide the value of a trademark at different dates, which can be a critical component for trademark damages in cases involving infringement, disparagement, and defamation.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #272527
This M&A expert has over 45 years of distinguished credentials in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.
This expert has demonstrated investment banking and capital-raising expertise through a variety of turnaround management assignments in the healthcare, medical device, manufacturing, insurance, gaming, student housing, and real estate industries. This expert has managed acquisitions of similar companies through the roll-up process and has worked to consolidate those companies to help maximize profitability.
This expert's consulting work focuses on M&A lead advisory services, complex corporate turnaround services, litigation support services, comprehensive real estate advisory services, and debt and equity financing, and includes litigation support in over 30 cases.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #275279
This mortgage fraud expert has expertise in real estate and mortgage broker standard of care, customs and practices in real estate and mortgage banking, and legal malpractice involving business and real estate matters.
This expert has taught law in the areas of real estate secured transactions and administrative law, held a senior legal affairs role with a statewide real estate professional association, serves as legal counsel to a regional real estate professional association, and is a member of a state bar committee focused on real estate sales and brokerage.
This expert has testified numerous times in matters involving the interpretation of real estate documents, real estate and mortgage brokers' standard of care, and legal malpractice involving real estate, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and legal ethics.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #277356
This digital/audio/video forensics expert is a Certified Video Forensic Examiner (CFVE) and Certified Computer Forensic Examiner (EnCE), and helped found and lead a digital forensics company. This expert has analyzed hundreds of digital forensic cases involving computers, mobile devices, audio, video, DVR forensics, and other types of digital multimedia evidence for both the public and private sectors. This expert began as a private investigator working on complex civil and criminal matters, which led to expertise in the Digital & Multimedia Evidence (DME) field.
This expert worked for a major corporation developing and implementing formal internal e-discovery and digital forensic capabilities, including conducting extensive research and training to implement company-wide tools, policies, and procedures that adhered to legal requirements, industry guidelines, and best practices. This training and experience allowed this expert to join a leading e-discovery company in a senior digital forensic investigation role. Primary duties included investigations supporting projects involving mergers, acquisitions, and regulatory requirements for Federal government agencies. This expert was also involved in the investigation of critical criminal and civil matters involving extensive national and international travel and the ability to work independently in complex environments while maintaining the quality of results.
This expert currently serves in executive and forensic examiner roles for an ISO 17025 based forensic laboratory, is a member of a prominent professional forensic science association, and is an Associate Member in a digital media sciences section.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #277620
This executive compensation expert has held senior leadership and co-founder roles at an executive compensation consultancy and has over 25 years of experience in executive compensation and management effectiveness, helping boards develop and implement solutions that produce optimal business results. Prior to advising boards of large public companies, this expert served as a senior HR executive and held roles leading compensation, HR planning and strategy, and management development for several other major companies. This expert also formed a firm helping companies address executive talent strategies, including executive pay and succession, typically in the context of mergers and acquisitions.
This expert assists boards in translating key strategic initiatives into actionable executive employment arrangements and believes that executive pay and succession decisions should be an extension of the underlying business strategy, not a discrete administrative practice. Areas of expertise include executive compensation practices, governance and compensation vehicles such as equity and profits interests, terms of executive employment and termination protections and features, incentives, and executive total compensation levels, including equity and non-cash benefits.
This expert has served as an expert witness on executive pay issues, contributed to the national debate on executive compensation as it pertains to disclosure and valuation of executive equity awards, and served as an advisor to a senior federal financial official. This expert has spoken at numerous industry events and forums hosted by professional organizations in banking, quality and productivity, and compensation. This expert holds a BA in Business and a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #279761
This mining and natural resources litigation and investigations expert has over 30 years of global, top-tier experience in the mining and natural resources sector. A former senior executive at a leading global investment bank and company board director, this expert leverages a combination of transactional and industry experience to provide resources-industry valuation and damages expert services. This expert has experience advising on disputes, including acting as the lead expert on a multibillion-dollar damages claim in the mining sector in the Asia-Pacific region.
During an investment banking career spanning over 20 years, this expert advised governments, private companies, and joint ventures on strategy, fundraisings, debt financings, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and restructurings with a combined deal value in the tens of billions of dollars. This expert developed a deep understanding of the mining value chain, from extraction to delivery to market, and familiarity with many types of resources, including iron ore, gold, nickel, silver, zinc, copper, lithium, titanium, and potash.
This expert has acted as a trusted advisor to leading mining companies in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #283848
This business valuation expert has specialized in the healthcare industry for over 30 years, performing valuations for over 2,000 hospitals, surgery centers, and specialty practices. The work has included engagements for major hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States involving mergers, acquisitions, and complex litigation.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #284513
This M&A expert holds an MBA and an AB, serves as a senior leader at a financial advisory and business valuation firm, and has experience testifying in federal and state courts throughout the country.
This expert has over 40 years of experience valuing businesses, rendering fairness opinions, providing expert litigation support, and negotiating, structuring, and closing mergers and acquisitions, financings, strategic alliances, and joint ventures.
This expert has closed over 100 M&A transactions and over 100 financings with companies in the technology, healthcare, consumer products, and financial services industries.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #287181
This forensic accounting expert holds a B.Sc. in Management and a J.D., is a licensed CPA in multiple states, and is a Certified Fraud Analyst (CVA) and Certified Forensic Examiner (CFE) with over 30 years of professional experience. This expert performs valuations for estate, gift, and other tax filings, succession planning, buy-sell agreements, management buy-outs, ESOPs, mergers and acquisitions, financing, reorganizations, shareholder disputes, marital dissolutions, and litigation. This expert has experience with bankruptcy cases and non-litigation bankruptcy work involving major U.S. personal bankruptcy matters, loan servicing and related accounting issues, damages, and testimony.
Start Mergers And Acquisitions Expert SearchExpert Witness #288020
This finance expert holds a J.D. and has a broad background in finance as a corporate lawyer, investment banker, and asset manager focused on high-yield and distressed investing.
This expert has expertise in valuation of corporate assets, securities and debt instruments, corporate restructurings, distressed, high-yield and special situation investing, bankruptcy analysis, mergers and acquisitions, bond indenture and bank agreement analysis, and damages in commercial litigation. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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