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What is a bankruptcy expert witness?

Bankruptcy expert witness candidates typically have a background in bankruptcy law, financial services, and/or accounting (CPA). For some cases, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) may be required if bankruptcy fraud is suspected. In addition, In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.

What types of cases require a bankruptcy expert witness?

Bankruptcy is a legal process for individuals/entities who cannot repay debts and is usually initiated by the debtor. Under the US Bankruptcy Code, there are six types of bankruptcy matters that may require expert support:

• Chapter 7: liquidation for individuals and businesses
• Chapter 9: municipal bankruptcy
• Chapter 11: a form of corporate bankruptcy, that typically allows a company to continue to function while they follow debt repayment plans
• Chapter 12: rehabilitation for family farmers and fishermen
• Chapter 13: a payment plan for individuals with a regular source of income (also known as Wage Earner Bankruptcy)
• Chapter 15: provides a mechanism for dealing with bankruptcy debtors and helps foreign debtors clear debts

Bankruptcy expert witness case examples

Example bankruptcy cases that Cahn Litigation Services has placed experts for have encompassed:

• lost profits,
• fraudulent transfer,
• reorganization due diligence,
• adversary proceedings,
• business interruption economic damages assessment,
• New York corporate restructuring feasibility study,
• intellectual property valuation,
• New Jersey real estate firm insolvency,
• business valuation in Delaware, and
• bankruptcy trustee fraud.

What litigation support work might a bankruptcy expert witness be expected to perform?

Bankruptcy litigation support could include document review, authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and/or courtroom testimony. In addition, clients may seek a bankruptcy expert for pre-litigation consulting services. While many candidates have expertise in bankruptcy matters, an expert witness carries the additional responsibility of providing testimony before the court in a manner whereby lay people can understand the litigation matters and evidence.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a bankruptcy expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Bankruptcy 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.

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Bankruptcy experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Bankruptcy landscape.

• Expert Witness #254986

  This expert serves as Managing Director of industrial and inventory valuations for a large, internationally recognized consultancy and has direct experience regarding the appraisal of fasteners. Prior to this role, this expert headed a large commercial appraiser's Inventory Valuation practice, where this expert's team produced reports used primarily for financing and financial reporting. With many years of experience, this expert has directed inventory appraisals across a wide range of industries, including aerospace, apparel, chemicals, food processing, building products, beverage, giftware, furniture, healthcare, home furnishings, industrial machinery, lumber, machine tools, medical devices, metals, paper, pharmaceuticals, plastics, retail, technology, textiles and transportation.

  While most of this expert's direct experience with fasteners has been as part of industrial appraisals, this expert has also worked on multiple liquidations where fasteners were sold; in these liquidations, the fasteners were ancillary assets and not the primary focus of the sales. Most prominently, this expert has appraised the inventory of a fastener company for a secured lender prior to its bankruptcy and its eventually sale through a bankruptcy process. In this case, this expert conducted appraisal work (multiple times) and provided consulting services to the secured lender during the bankruptcy process. This expert has also completed multiple appraisals of other companies that manufactured and distributed fasteners.

  As an expert witness, this expert has experience testifying before federal bankruptcy court as well as supporting litigation through depositions, affidavits of value, and consulting experience. This expert also has experience with machinery and equipment appraisals, marine assets, fishery permits and has managed many inventory auctions and liquidations. This expert is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Turnaround Management Association. This expert frequently speaks on valuation topics and has published several articles related to the appraisal process. This expert is a Candidate of the American Society of Appraisers, and has completed the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) coursework.

  
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• Expert Witness #261207

  This expert is a partner in a national law firm. This expert earned a BA, and worked as a litigator at national firms since receiving a law degree. This expert is a Top Bankruptcy Fee Examiner. As a litigator, this expert has extensive experience in commercial, bankruptcy and fraudulent conveyance matters. This expert has provided services as a mediator in multiple cases a including Chapter 9 matters. This expert is an author and lecturer and a frequent expert witness.

  
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• Expert Witness #248849

  This expert is a Managing Director in an international accounting company's Business Restructuring and Turnaround Services practice. This expert has many years of experience in financial advisory services, including corporate restructuring, capital raising and merger and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. This expert provides financial, strategic and operational guidance to companies in the energy, chemical and renewables sectors.
  
  This expert has significant transaction experience, having worked with clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions, as well as on auctions out of bankruptcy, privatizations, joint ventures, joint development agreements, and private equity and venture capital investments. This expert has also served as interim CEO of a leading solar panel producer, as well as interim CFO of a biodiesel company, where the company was successfully taken through Chapter 11. In addition, this expert has acted as a senior advisor to two exploration and production (E&P) companies.
  
  This expert was President at a biotechnology company, where this expert successfully executed the company's first external capital raising and grew its staff. This expert also served as operating partner to a hedge fund for portfolio companies in the energy sector, leading several successful turnarounds, including an emergence from Chapter 11 and subsequent asset sale.
  

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  - Bankruptcy Experience

  - Energy sector leadership as in-house corporate development professional

  - Private Equity/Hedge Fund Experience

  - Significant renewables experience

  - Investment banking

  - M&A and capital raising focus for the energy sector

  - Litigation support - economic analysis in support of expert testimony

  - Securities litigation, insider trading and antitrust cases
  
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• Expert Witness #248025

  This expert is a Partner in the Advisory Services Department of a public accounting and consulting firm. This expert's project-based practice specializes in forensic accounting and valuation services. This expert has experience managing various litigation support engagements involving matrimonial dissolutions, business owner disputes, fraud investigations, and bankruptcy matters. This expert has testified as an expert witness.

  
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• Expert 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

  
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• Expert Witness #280358

  This undue influence expert holds an MD and is a physician specializing in forensic and geriatric psychiatry. This expert focuses primarily on the assessment of undue influence and mental capacity.

  The assessment methods developed by this expert are taught in many countries and promoted by many professional groups and governmental organizations. The work is referenced in textbooks worldwide on elder financial abuse. This expert has worked on hundreds of matters as an expert witness and litigation consultant, including criminal trials, bankruptcy litigation, and numerous cases involving financial exploitation, elder abuse, and undue influence claims.

  
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• Expert Witness #281183

  This lost earnings/damages expert leads a healthcare consulting firm focused on valuation and financial analysis for hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare enterprises. This expert has served a diverse range of healthcare industry and medical professional clients nationwide, including physician solo and group private practices across medical specialties, subspecialties, and allied health professions; hospitals and health systems, both tax-exempt and for-profit; managed care organizations; ancillary service providers; outpatient services; management services organizations; government agencies; public health and safety agencies; other related healthcare enterprises and agencies; and advisory professionals.

  This expert provides a wide range of technical assistance to legal counsel through litigation support services focused solely on the healthcare industry, including lost or enhanced earnings capacity, antitrust issues, provider relationships, healthcare valuation of enterprises, assets, and services, commercial damages, merger, acquisition, or divestiture transactions, managed care issues, healthcare industry research, shareholder disputes, economic and utilization demand forecasting, bankruptcy, discrimination, certificate of need feasibility analyses, and fraud and abuse issues. This expert has assisted in cases in Federal District Courts, State Courts, Tax Court, Bankruptcy Court, and arbitrations, involving complex economic, legal, financial, valuation, and related issues across a broad spectrum of provider entities in the healthcare industry.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #287723

  This mortgage, bankruptcy, and accounting expert is a CPA, CFF, CGMA, ABV, and CVA, and serves as a senior leader at a forensic accounting and taxation advisory practice. This expert manages a professional forensic and accounting staff providing services that include economic damages analysis, fraud analysis, shareholder disputes, mortgage resolution, real estate and banking-related matters, asset recovery, litigation support, auditing, financial statement preparation, corporate and individual financing assistance, guardianships, business valuation, and troubled individual and company financial workout accounting. The forensic litigation support work has involved the determination of various frauds, including kiting, Ponzi schemes, embezzlement, bank fraud, wire fraud, and related fraud schemes.

  This expert operated a mortgage banking business for roughly a decade and has frequently been involved in mortgage-related cases at multiple levels. This expert has also handled matters involving loan officers leaving and taking clients, including valuation of loan portfolios, adverse bankruptcy actions, repurchase of bad loans, and related issues. This expert previously owned a mortgage company, continues to maintain loan officer credentials in multiple states, formerly served in a real estate regulatory role, teaches accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels at a public college, and has testified in mortgage-related cases.

  With regard to accounting and forensic practices, this expert has testified in civil court proceedings, participated in arbitrations and mediations, and prepared reports concerning assorted frauds. This expert has extensive experience in real estate, mortgage banking lending and securitization, and banking compliance. As a licensed business valuation professional, this expert has prepared valuations in matters involving estate and gift taxation, shareholder oppression, matrimonial disputes, guardianships, contract disputes, audits, forensic audits, construction cost analyses, and IRS tax resolutions. This expert participates in numerous bank- and mortgage-related litigation matters due to extensive underwriting and operational experience in mortgage banking. This expert has prepared economic damage analyses, assisted in the preparation of pension actuary analyses, and addressed workout matters involving failing businesses and nonperforming loans. This expert also reviews and prepares economic analyses concerning municipal budgets when retained for union negotiations and public bargaining units, and is a certified civil mediator.

  
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• Expert 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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• Expert Witness #288400

  This economic damages expert has served in a senior role at an accounting and advisory firm and as a testifying expert in federal district and state court matters, as well as in private arbitrations involving economic, accounting, valuation, and strategic issues.

  This expert has testified in a variety of litigation matters involving business valuation, bankruptcy, fraud, and business interruption, including matters involving food production, handling, and restaurant industries. Testimony has addressed the analysis and determination of economic damages for both plaintiffs and defendants, including lost profits, valuation, and pre- and post-judgment interest.

  This expert has also served as a guest lecturer at several law schools, covering damages under a variety of claims.

  
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• Expert Witness #292878

  This resort operations expert has expertise in hotels, resorts, and related hospitality businesses, with prior experience in operational, finance, and real estate development roles at major hotel companies.

  This expert has served as an expert witness before judicial bodies in many U.S. states and U.S. Federal Courts, and has also been engaged as an expert in international jurisdictions. This expert has served in matters before bodies of arbitration, U.S. federal administrative courts, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, and a Native American Tribal Court.

  
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• Expert Witness #293519

  This bankruptcy expert is a partner in a consulting practice and handles expert witness matters, including bankruptcy-related engagements. This expert's firm supports all types of bankruptcies and has served as financial advisors and bankruptcy consultants to both debtors and creditors in various bankruptcy cases.

  This expert's firm has served as bankruptcy consultants and financial advisors in cases involving nut farming, dairy farming, cattle farming, and other farming-related matters.

  
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• Expert Witness #293623

  This bankruptcy expert has over 40 years of experience in distressed debt management and corporate turnaround, with general working knowledge of the Chapter 12 process and substantial experience with Chapter 11.

  This expert has experience in agriculture-related Chapter 11 cases, expert witness work in agriculture-related litigation, and substantial experience in PACA-related matters, including bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy contexts.

  
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• Expert Witness #293635

  This bankruptcy expert has been appointed as a Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 trustee, including appointment as trustee of individuals. This expert has also served as financial advisor to debtors, including individuals. While this expert has not served as a trustee in a Chapter 12 case, this expert is familiar with Chapter 12 and sits on the trustee panel available for special appointment in the Middle District of Alabama.

  This expert has served as lead advisor to cash flow lending companies and other financial institutions performing solvency analysis in connection with decisions to grant concessions or declare individual and corporate borrowers in default. This expert has testified as an expert witness on the issue of solvency and insolvency many times, including the solvency and insolvency of individuals.

  
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• Expert Witness #293662

  This bankruptcy expert is a fourth-generation farmer with extensive experience as a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Restructuring Officer, Receiver, Chapter 11 Trustee, investment banker, and financial advisor in highly complex agricultural and commodity-related insolvencies.

  
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• Expert Witness #296529

  This IRS audit/tax controversy expert has over 25 years of experience as an IRS Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent and over 40 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant.

  This expert is a former Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent with IRS Criminal Investigation and has broad experience in forensic accounting, investigative services, and dispute services, including operating an independent practice. This expert is experienced in asset forfeiture and asset tracing, including recovery-related work, and has performed international investigations involving Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs), provisional arrest warrants, and overseas depositions.

  This expert's expertise includes fraud, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and investigations. This expert is experienced in asset tracing, due diligence, insolvency opinions, investigation and testimony regarding piercing the corporate veil, bankruptcy-related investigations, state and federal tax controversy, tax opinions, white-collar defense, internal investigations, diversion schemes, damages and loss analysis, complex corporate class action disputes, and partner, shareholder, and family disputes.

  This expert is a Certified Fraud Examiner and licensed private detective in Illinois. This expert is a member of professional accounting, fraud examination, federal criminal investigation, and former IRS special agent associations.

  This expert has testified in federal and state court, arbitration, and deposition. This expert provides expert opinions and fact-based reports in high-value disputed matters. This expert's investigative experience includes corporate fraud; criminal tax; failed banks and savings and loans; bankruptcy, securities, foreign exchange, and mortgage fraud; Ponzi schemes; inflated billing schemes; sophisticated pension fraud schemes; healthcare fraud; identity theft; illegal immigration employment schemes; false claims; public corruption and bribery; investigations involving organized crime; and international and local drug conspiracies.

  
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• Expert Witness #300450

  This predatory lending expert has been designated over 325 times in over 20 different states. The majority of cases in which this expert has served as an expert have involved real estate finance, including hard money lending.

  This expert has been designated in hard money cases and has testified in State, Federal, Bankruptcy, and U.S. District Tax courts.

  
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• Expert Witness #301464

  This real estate expert has held a senior leadership role at a consulting firm and co-led a real estate valuation practice, with experience in complex real estate litigation assignments involving bankruptcy, foreclosure, partnership disputes, eminent domain, environmental contamination, right-of-way, tax appeals, property management, ground rent, and market rent disputes.

  This expert previously worked as a Financial Analyst in a project finance group, leading underwriting efforts for acquisitions and developments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. This expert also served as a Real Estate Analyst for a storage and property company, with responsibility for tens of millions of dollars in acquisition and redevelopment capital across a company portfolio.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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