Financial Expert Witnesses

What is a financial expert witness?
Financial expert witness candidates typically have many years of experience in the field, with areas of expertise encompassing accounting, economics, banking, securities, and/or corporate finance. Financial management expert witnesses and financial planning expert witnesses may provide expertise in matters that involve financial tools and retirement planning. Financial market expert witnesses may be required for NASD and public offerings. Depending on the project at hand, the right expert may be an accredited Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), or have a specific background as a forensic accountant.
What types of cases require a financial expert witness?
Financial expert witnesses can provide litigation support for matters involving corporate finance, financial trades, and financial planning. Cases may be civil, criminal, or class-action and require not only expertise but the ability to communicate findings for ease of understanding.
Financial expert witness case examples
Representing a plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for litigation matters requiring financial expert witnesses. Representative cases have included:
- forensic accounting (for financial reporting misconduct),
- an investment banking dispute resolution in New York,
- FINRA regulations (with a securities expert),
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) duties,
- economic damages (for a variety of issues, including personal injury),
- real estate lender liability (utilizing a banking expert),
- real estate appraiser arbitration,
- intellectual property valuation,
- hedge funds due diligence,
- derivatives,
- cash flow from financing activities (CFF) methodology,
- financial institutions fraud investigation in Federal Court,
- FINRA arbitration,
- LLP business valuation, and
- financial forensics to support malpractice litigation.
What litigation support work might a financial expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a financial expert witness could include financial analyses, economic damages calculations, financial statements review, deposition testimony, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, arbitration, and/or courtroom testimony. In addition, a law firm may seek an accounting expert for pre-litigation consultant work. A financial expert witness needs to possess the ability to provide expert testimony in a manner such that a judge and jury can understand the evidence, as well as be prepared to endure the scrutiny of a cross-examination. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, lead counsel may request a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a financial expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Financial 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 Financial experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Financial landscape.
Expert Witness #248578
This expert is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Professional and brings many years of securities industry expertise to the table. This expert's career includes serving as Chief Compliance Officer of public and private financial services institutions, managing and directing the AML, compliance, controls and risks of various businesses in the financial services industry and years of sales and management in other retail businesses. This expert held Municipal Principal responsibilities at financial services and supervised options business at financial services institutions as either Senior Registered Option Principal or Compliance Registered Option Principal. This expert served on the FINRA Committee that created the Operations Professional Series 99 and is a frequent panelist and facilitator at industry conferences and regional and national meetings. This expert is well-prepared to serve as an expert witness for financial services institutions from testifying as the company representative for three financial services institutions in 15 arbitrations. To remain prepared for paid board service this expert is trained in SOX requirements.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #251896
This expert began a career as an internal auditor with a National Bank. This expert helped community financial institutions as internal auditor, controller and chief financial officer. As a consultant this expert has assisted community financial institutions with investment management, asset liability management, investment banking, compliance issues, internal audit, deposit and loan operations, company policies and general accepted accounting principles. This expert has assisted in a capital raise for de-novo financial institutions. This expert has spent many years in the financial institution, and mortgage industries. This expert understands, first hand, the impact of changes that have occurred in these industries and most importantly, how these changes impact customers; especially business owners' ability to obtain capital and loans that they need to operate and grow their companies. That's why a large part of this expert's practice is devoted to helping consult with community financial institutions, including non-bank, as these changes affect them.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #253356
This expert is a Director in a Dispute Consulting group. This expert has provided litigation consulting services for purposes including professional malpractice, financial reporting fraud, automotive industry OEM and supplier claims, business interruption claims, post-acquisition disputes, internal corporate investigations, forensic accounting issues, and franchise related disputes. In connection with these services, this expert regularly performs fact finding and discovery assistance, lost profit calculations, business valuations, lost earnings and wages computations, and other financial analyses. This expert has presented before boards of directors and the Department of Justice with findings related to financial reporting fraud, accounting issues and forensic audits as well as compliance related issues involving design and implementation of financial and operational controls.
This expert's experience encompasses a wide range of industries and engagements including manufacturing, automotive, financial institutions, life sciences, professional practices, retail, software, real estate, food manufacturing, agriculture, physician & professional practices, private equity funds and energy. This expert has presented continuing education seminars on forensic accounting and fraud related topics.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #253873
This expert is a founding member of an independent business advisory and transaction services consultancy. This expert brings to the table many years of valuation, financial analysis and litigation support experience, specializing as a consultant and expert in the fields of forensic accounting, economic damages analysis in commercial disputes, business valuation and automotive industry issues. This expert also has served as financial advisor to bank groups and creditor committees in connection with financial restructuring. Prior to founding the firm, this expert was the partner in charge of the Financial & Economic Consulting practices of a large accounting firm. This expert also served as an associate, manager and partner in the firm's assurance and corporate finance practices. This expert has served as a financial expert in well over two hundred engagements involving testimony in deposition, trial and alternative dispute resolution settings as an expert in auditing and accounting, commercial economics, financial and operational analysis, fraud investigation, determination of economic damages and business valuation. This expert has also participated in hundreds of additional commercial dispute engagements in a consulting role, a mediation role or where resolution of the matter was achieved without expert testimony. Matters addressed in these engagements include:
- Contract and business tort claims for lost profits and other damages- Stockholder disputes and post-acquisition disputes- Financial reporting fraud and asset misappropriation- Securities law enforcement actions- Construction and government contracting claims- Intellectual property disputes- Class action damage claims- Professional malpractice claims- Business interruption claimsThis expert has served as a sole arbitrator, court-appointed expert and arbitration panelist in matters involving commercial disputes, post-acquisition disputes and stockholder valuation disputes. This expert has been a course instructor, seminar leader and speaker at numerous professional conferences and continuing education programs on topics including auditing and accounting, litigation consulting, accounting theory and practice and forensic accounting and has been involved in the MICPA Litigation Consulting and Business Valuation Committee and the MICPA Fraud Issues Task Force.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #248638
This expert is one of the few professional, independent financial expert witnesses in banking, corporate securities, trading, derivatives, client/bank disputes and market misconduct. This expert has been appointed to provide research reports and Court evidence for a wide range of complex financial litigation and arbitration cases from Hong Kong to the US. This expert has reviewed the cases of both Plaintiffs and Defendants, in civil and criminal disputes, including those involving synthetic derivatives, insider trading, mis-selling, misuse of information, employment contracts, shareholder agreements, loan documents, disputes between banks and clients, setting of pricing, and determination of quantum. This expert has a great deal of experience sifting evidence in the field of market misconduct, frequently being appointed by the Regulators - or indeed appointed by the defendants. This expert is a Practicing Member of the Academy of Experts.
This expert is very familiar with the financial markets, having been a stockbroker, fund manager and private banker involved with sales, trading, investment management and banking. This expert has very strong and current technical skills, including managing directly invested long and hedge funds and funds in many asset classes, including bonds. This expert is a sought-after financial commentator, is frequently published in national and international newspapers, and has appeared on television broadcasts throughout the world.
This expert has established several compliance departments and implemented such processes. This expert is an SFC Type 1, 4 and 9 Responsible Officer and is qualified to run Authorized Funds through types 4 and 9. This expert operates as an investment management consultant through the firm, whose clients include investing institutions, Fund Boards, expert witness panels, and securities organizations.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #253889
This expert is a founding member of an independent business advisory and transaction services consultancy. This expert specializes in serving as a consultant or expert in the fields of forensic accounting, economic damages analysis in commercial disputes, business valuation and fraud investigation and detection. This expert also serves as a financial advisor to debtors, bank groups and creditor committees in corporate bankruptcy and restructuring matters. This expert has provided litigation consulting services in hundreds of large and complex commercial disputes and corporate reorganization matters. This expert regularly performs fact finding and discovery assistance, lost profit calculations, business valuations, lost earnings and wages computations, market studies, and other financial analyses. This expert has served as an expert and consultant in the quantification of economic damages in matters ranging from contract claims to business interruption claims, construction and government contracting claims, intellectual property matters, accounting malpractice, stockholder and post-acquisition disputes, antitrust matters, and personal injury claims. As a Certified Fraud Examiner, this expert leads engagements in the investigation, detection and quantification of financial reporting fraud and asset misappropriations. This expert is the co-developer and author of a case study on fraudulent financial reporting published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for distribution to academic institutions. This expert also has expertise in complex data analysis and financial modeling.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #257455
This expert has many years' experience in bank operations, consulting, and expert witness testimony. This expert specializes in the areas of bank payment operations, check/image clearing and settlement, teller and ATM deposit processing, float, ACH and electronic payment processing, and correspondent banking. This expert is experienced as an expert at trial, in depositions, and in reports prepared for the court. This expert brings a unique combination of hands-on management and consulting experience with the ability to condense complex financial procedures into clear, understandable terms for the court and the jury. In addition, this expert's contacts and access to management at key financial institutions keep this expert up-to-date on procedures, products, technology, and regulation. This expert began an expert witness career years ago, representing a major financial institution in a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving posting procedure, kiting, check processing, and float management. Since the successful outcome of that suit this expert has continued to accept cases, along with occupations as a consultant and as a financial services company employee.
This expert began a banking career in trainee positions with a Federal Reserve Bank and as a financial analyst with a depository trust company. This expert's banking operations management positions included coordinating check clearing services, designing float reports, and reducing non-earning assets. As a Senior Principal, a bank payment, consulting and technology provider, this expert provided project management expertise and consulting to a client base composed primarily of the top 25 banking institutions in the US. This expert's specific areas of expertise addressed market segmentation, deposit product design and analysis, electronic payments, revenue enhancement, and check/ACH/image processing.
This expert was editor and author of a bi-monthly, national newsletter for bank operations, check processing, and ACH professionals. This expert conducted research on trends in bank operations, cash management, and fraud detection and control.
This expert has been active in industry forums, conducting presentations for the Bank Administration Institute (BAI), Association of Financial Professionals, and The Association for Work Process Improvement. This expert has designed and facilitated national seminars on payment issues and has fostered thought leadership through white paper publications on Regulation CC, ACH Processing, and Correspondent Banking.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #250138
Founder and President of an independent financial technologies consultancy, this expert has designed and managed major management consulting and technology projects for 58 major domestic and foreign banks and Wall Street firms, including the design, purchase, and installation of more than $2.4 billion worth of telecommunications, computer technology, software and specialized hardware. This expert works with the entire spectrum of modern financial services technology, including trading telecommunications and computers, LAN/WAN design, communications cabling, wireless communications, front and back office financial processing systems, security software and devices, and special hardware and software projects of all types. This expert serves as an Expert Witness in telecom and computer matters in state and federal courts, and also does General Management Consulting Engagements, Market Research and Strategic Planning. This expert has both courtroom and deposition experience. A respected designer of original computer hardware and software for the financial services industry, this expert is the inventor of a Wireless Integrated Trading System, a 20Mb/s bandwidth infrared system used for trading room disaster recovery; an electronic office access system, installed in major office buildings nationwide; and a microprocessor system for measuring productivity in 'moving line' situations, installed at shuttle operations at a major airport and various bank branches. This expert completed the systems design and programming of an online foreign exchange trading system for a hedge fund. This expert studied Computer Science, Business Administration, and Electronics Engineering. This expert writes for technical media, and is the author of several books on banking, computers and telecommunications, as well as many articles in the financial press. This expert is a Member of IEEE, AIIE, ASM, and EFTA.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #248534
This expert divides time between being an adjunct professorship at a Business School at a major University, and as a consultant. Prior to the consultancy, this expert was a Senior financial Economist and then financial Team Leader at a Federal Reserve Bank. This expert holds a PhD and a Masters in Operations Research. This expert is extremely well published, with over 10 professional publications and has deep experience as an expert witness in financial and trading litigations.
Start Financial 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 Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #266541
This expert has many years of banking and lending experience, specializing in credit risk. This expert completed a 4.5MM residential real estate case that required forensic evaluation of underwriting, appraisal process, collections, loan modification applications/decisions and compliance with government programs. The discovery in this case exceeded 60,000 pages and thousands of documents. This expert has completed a report and deposition of a $50MM fraud case requiring the evaluation of a multi-year relationship of underwriting, closing procedures, ongoing administration, collateral administration, financial information and analysis.
During and after the real estate crash in 2006-10, this expert was part of a specialized residential real estate team that evaluated thousands of defaulted mortgages coast to coast. This involved forensic evaluation of fraudulent activity in mortgage lending, compliance with government modification programs, foreclosure processes, appraisal processes, collections, underwriting and documentation. This expert led a forensic evaluation of a portfolio of fraudulently underwritten home mortgages perpetrated by a rogue staff of a bank branch and documented a package for the FBI/DOJ for prosecution. This expert has written expert witness reports and has been deposed.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #211495
This financial industry software expert holds a PhD and has extensive experience managing data used in the financial services industry, including a deep understanding of how financial services companies use data. This expertise includes developing and teaching graduate-level finance courses, founding an enterprise software company that provided software to professional services firms and financial organizations, and working as an expert in numerous software-related matters, including trade secret, contract dispute, and patent cases involving the financial services industry.
This expert understands data sources, the use of APIs and earlier tools, and the use of data in fixed income, futures, swaps, and options. This expert has worked with data licensing, including licensing financial market data from third parties, and has also been involved in building or managing security master databases.
Prior work has included developing and teaching courses related to the financial services industry in a graduate finance program at a well-regarded university and in professional financial certification programs. This expert also co-developed and taught a financial technology course through a prominent technology forum.
This expert has served as a consultant and expert witness in several matters involving the use of financial data by financial services companies. This work has included trade secret matters involving mortgage-backed securities trading, related systems, data flows, market activities, and software used in fixed-income trading, including databases sourced for use with the software.
This expert has also analyzed matters involving the use of financial data and related analytical tools by large financial services firms.
This expert has conducted research and published a peer-reviewed article regarding how a leading financial services company reengineered data flows and software systems to provide faster and better services to traders and other personnel.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #217251
This international banking and finance expert is a senior leader at a multinational economic consulting firm, with deep expertise in financial economics, strong quantitative skills, and extensive marketplace experience as a trader in fixed-income, foreign exchange, derivative instruments, and structured finance products.
This expert has provided economic consulting services in areas including credit and fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, derivative instruments, complex financial and tax structures, hedge funds, real estate, financial crises, and market liquidity.
This expert has led internal investigations on behalf of major financial institutions in the areas of fixed income, commodities, foreign exchange, and structured finance.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #272978
This compensation/damages expert holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in economics and a B.A. in statistics from well-regarded universities, and is a nationally renowned economist and financial consultant who provides analysis in simple terms that any trier of fact can understand.
This expert is well-published, frequently presents at academic and industry conferences, and is nationally recognized for credibility as an expert witness. This expert has been featured in prominent legal and financial publications.
This expert has academic background in economics, finance, and econometrics, along with adjunct professorship experience at well-regarded law and university programs that demonstrates teaching experience and mentoring capacity, including career advising.
This expert has longstanding involvement with academic and professional associations in economics and forensic economics. This expert also has experience with financial consulting work serving institutional money managers and pension funds.
This expert has expertise in compensation and financial damages, including analysis of compensation-related damages, wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, and financial losses in numerous lawsuits. This expert has experience analyzing real-world compensation structures across financial roles, including work relevant to trading, asset management, and financial industry compensation and incentive structures.
This expert has provided expert witness support, litigation consultation, and detailed economic and financial analysis required to quantify damages of many types.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #277768
This investment banking expert holds a Ph.D. and has worked in the investment banking industry for over 40 years, including leadership positions at several investment banks.
This expert has experience with matters involving investor presentations, the use of NDAs in investment banking transactions, and financial damages in patent infringement cases. The background includes serving as an investment banker and engaging directly in making and using investor presentations.
This expert has over 40 years of experience as a senior financial executive in financial institutions, including serving in senior investment banking and financial operations roles, and has closed over 250 transactions. As a senior investment banker, this expert has often been involved with writing and presenting disclosure materials, issuing NDAs, and protecting confidentiality and trade secrets, all of which are standard procedures and requirements for a senior investment banker.
This expert has served as an expert witness in over 50 cases involving financial matters, including investment banking, marketing, NDAs, presentations, and financial damages. The work has included preparing expert reports and testifying in depositions, jury trials, bench trials, and administrative hearings.
This expert has also taught in doctoral and master's programs at a university, including classes in finance, management, research methods, and financial institutions, and has chaired dissertation committees. Additional academic experience includes serving as a Senior Lecturer in an MBA program at a well-regarded school of management, teaching classes in investment banking, corporate finance, M&A transactions, and financial analysis.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #280274
This financial investigation, royalty audit, and legal expert is a Certified Public Accountant and attorney with over 40 years of collective financial investigation, audit, and legal experience. For almost 30 years, this expert has specialized in complex forensic accounting investigations, damages analysis, and expert testimony in federal and state courts, following earlier work managing independent financial audits of municipalities and electric utilities.
In addition to independent financial audit experience, this expert has performed several royalty audit engagements. More recently, this expert has served as an expert witness in significant IP licensing litigation matters involving royalty audits, film and TV profit participation audits, copyright matters, and IP licensing matters.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #282760
This FINRA/broker compliance expert has over 30 years of experience in securities and financial services at the financial advisor, supervisory, and managing principal levels. This expert has also passed FINRA registration examinations for Series 6, 63, 65, 7, 26, and 24, as well as state licensing examinations for Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Long Term Care Insurance, Variable Life Insurance, and Variable Annuities. This expert has significant management experience with recruiting and hiring financial advisors and handling financial advisor resignations.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant, having been engaged as an expert in over 100 cases.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #286991
This international finance and letters of credit expert holds a Ph.D. from a prestigious university and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at a well-regarded university for decades, with academic teaching and research specializing in financial institutions and international banking.
This expert has served as a visiting professor at prominent universities around the world. This expert is a published author and sought-after speaker and has acted as a visiting scholar at a government financial regulatory office and an international monetary institution.
This expert has served in editorial roles for prominent banking, finance, financial markets, financial management, money, credit, and banking journals, including as an editor and associate editor for multiple scholarly publications.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #298283
This financial industry software expert has decades of experience managing data in financial services organizations and has handled instrument types ranging from exchange-traded equities to OTC derivatives. This expert has been involved in building security master databases at major financial institutions and during a major financial institution merger.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #299008
This financial industry expert has experience consulting for a federal banking regulator, leading teams that obtained financial data from banking software companies to help manage bank post-closing operations during the 2008 financial crisis.
This expert has a solid background in building and managing security master databases and has worked as a database administrator for several years. Throughout this expert's career, this expert has managed forensic data analytics teams, particularly in litigation support contexts.
This expert formulated business rules and designed an application to identify risk factors in bank data in conjunction with federal banking examiners and investigators. This expert also participated in post-closing activities for a major financial institution, identifying and transferring relevant data from software applications to systems managed by a large consulting firm.
Throughout this expert's career, this expert has performed numerous investigations and provided litigation support for various financial institutions.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #299483
This financial fraud expert has over 30 years of experience in complex business financial and accounting roles, including over 25 years as a consultant providing forensic accounting, financial recovery, and compliance services.
This expert has worked on numerous litigation and investigation matters, serving as a forensic accounting investigator, testifying expert, and support resource for investigative and expert teams.
This expert has served as a testifying expert in an accounts receivable factoring dispute and has participated in investigations involving financial misrepresentations and embezzlement.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #301397
This international sanctions compliance expert is an executive-level financial crime compliance subject matter expert with significant investigatory and financial crime prevention system and control experience, including governance, transaction monitoring, sanctions, criminal and financial crime investigations, and policies and procedures.
With over 25 years of experience, this expert has led financial crime compliance remediation projects and a Section 166 Skilled Person review for a number of firms, and has supported a national central bank in optimizing financial crime compliance systems and controls for multiple financial institutions.
This expert has served as an anti-financial crime subject matter expert project lead for SYSC and KYC remediation projects at several financial institutions, served as lead subject matter expert on optimization of the FIRCOSOFT transaction screening tool, and implemented sanctions compliance frameworks at several financial institutions.
Start Financial Expert SearchExpert Witness #301883
This economist expert holds a Ph.D. and is a court-certified expert specializing in business valuation, valuation methodologies, antitrust, class-action damages, trademark infringement, lost profits, and disgorgement. This expert has authored over 15 expert reports, given a number of depositions, and provided testimony in trial and hearing settings.
This expert holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Quantitative Economics from a university and a B.A. in Economics and Finance from a liberal arts college. Academic experience includes teaching corporate finance, investments, financial statement analysis, and econometrics at several universities. Prior roles include investment banking at a financial-services firm, where this expert conducted valuations, due diligence, and financial analysis for acquisitions and offerings in the financial-services sector. This expert has presented at national conferences, served on policy panels, and remains active in professional and public-facing economic work.
This expert's expert-witness work spans antitrust damages, trademark and false-advertising disputes, DCF valuations, and complex economic modeling. Analyses have been admitted in multiple federal and state cases, including significant antitrust matters and major valuation and breach-of-contract disputes. This expert has also provided influential public-policy research, including financial and rate-impact modeling for a public utility.
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