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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Business Transactions experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Business Transactions landscape.
Expert Witness #253452
This expert is the founder and team leader of a highly successful consultancy. This expert is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and has multiple accreditations in business valuation and forensic accounting, including Accredited in Business Valuation, Certified Financial Forensics, Certified Valuation Analyst and Certified Business Appraiser. This expert also has a Master's degree in Taxation. In addition to being a prolific writer in multiple areas involving litigation support, this expert frequently lectures before the legal community on varied financial topics. This expert also has extensive experience as an expert witness.
As an expert in business valuation, forensic accounting, and financial investigations, this expert assists attorneys step by step through the various intricacies of each case and is recognized for an unparalleled ability to present and address financial issues in a clear, organized and strategic manner.
As a valuation and forensic accounting expert, this expert deciphers and uncovers transactions that may have intentionally or unintentionally adversely affected an individual, business or organization. This expert's efforts provide clients with the evidence needed to support their case. This expert investigates business transactions, economic crimes, civil litigation matters and perform specialized audits including:
- Missing assets
- Fund transfers
- Underreporting of income
- Overstating of expenses, and
- Dissipation of assets
This expert at the various methods of Business Valuation, including the asset-based, market approach and income approach methodologies.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #253283
This expert is Managing Director of a nationally recognized business valuation/investigative services and tax consulting and compliance firm. This expert has provided business valuation, dispute advisory, forensic accounting, and tax consulting services to clients for many years. This expert has also implemented and administered back and middle office operations for private equity and venture capital funds.
With respect to litigation support activities, this expert is a recognized business valuation and economic damages expert, and has presented expert witness testimony in these areas on numerous occasions. Among other engagements, this expert has provided business valuation services for M&A transactions, corporate divestitures, marital dissolutions, shareholder/partner disputes, joint ventures, estate and gift tax matters, and has analyzed economic damages for both plaintiffs and defendants. On each engagement, this expert uses training as a forensic accountant to formulate comprehensive and understandable analyses.
With respect to forensic accounting expertise, this expert has assisted attorneys throughout all phases of investigations from pre-case assessment through expert witness testimony. Among other engagements, this expert has provided forensic accounting services related to procurement reviews, tenant/landlord lease verifications, and income/cash flow assessments.
This expert holds the following certifications and qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)- Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV)- Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)- Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)This expert has authored articles, and has presented at numerous business conferences.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert 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 Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #257962
This expert holds an LL.M. in Taxation. This expert focuses on tax issues related to individuals and business transactions and has litigated matters in federal and state trial courts, tax court, and state appeals court. This expert has significant experience in the preparation of federal and state tax returns.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert 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.
Relevent Experience:
- 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
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #247318
This banking expert has a lengthy career in banking and mortgage banking, including founding a mortgage banking and brokering company, and has created and managed profitable production, underwriting, loan servicing, quality control, and secondary marketing divisions.
This expert has significant experience structuring and supervising large-scale re-underwriting and valuation projects, along with experience in fraud mitigation across banking and lending contexts. Real estate and loan transactions are heavily documented, and commercial loans and business lines of credit are commonly cross-collateralized with borrower real estate.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #261485
This entertainment attorney and record executive has over 35 years of experience handling major entertainment law transactions, including work involving prominent recording artists, Grammy Award-winning performers, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members, and influential music movements.
This expert's work has included litigation, record production and promotion, complex licensing negotiations and agreements, purchases and sales of record companies and publishing companies, and business transactions across the entertainment industry. This expert has also worked with entertainment-related beverage licensing, music performers, recording acts, and television talent.
This expert's practice has expanded to include digital rights acquisition and distribution, corporate representation, karaoke music production, music supply for public venues, streaming services, and negotiations with major record labels.
This expert has been qualified as an expert witness in music industry matters in both federal and state courts. This expert has provided testimony in high-profile music industry disputes and numerous state court matters.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #262121
This business sale and legal representation expert is an attorney whose career, at prominent law firms and as an independent consultant and expert witness, has centered on financial transactions and their underlying documents. This expert has structured, negotiated, and drafted sales and loans secured by receivables and other assets, including assets ranging from real estate to aircraft.
This expert has over 50 expert witness and consultancy projects related to finance transactions. This expert has practiced law for many years and has drafted, negotiated, and reviewed numerous asset purchase agreements containing seller representations, and has experience with matters involving legal malpractice and failures to follow industry standards.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #275274
This mortgage broker expert has expertise in real estate and mortgage broker standard of care, custom and practice in real estate and mortgage banking, and legal malpractice involving business and real estate. This expert has taught law in real estate secured transactions and administrative law, held a senior legal affairs role with a real estate professional association, served as legal counsel to a real estate professional association, and participated in a real estate sales and brokerage steering committee within a state bar association.
This expert has testified numerous times as an expert witness in cases involving the interpretation of real estate documents, real estate and mortgage brokers' standard of care, and legal malpractice involving real estate, corporate finance, merger and acquisition, and legal ethics.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #283845
This business valuation expert has served for over 20 years as a testifying expert in several major areas, including damages analyses based on business and securities valuation approaches, transaction forensics involving disputed post-deal activity in light of original transaction negotiations and documentation, and alter ego or piercing-the-corporate-veil analyses.
This expert has also provided valuations and structuring advice for non-disputed transactions, typically involving new investors entering a business or an owner seeking to reduce holdings in a business.
This expert began a career at a valuation firm, working directly under the author of a leading authoritative text on business valuations. This expert was also a co-founder of a private company M&A group with a global investment bank. By the time that role ended, preliminary valuations for transaction purposes had been performed for hundreds of companies.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #284480
This M&A process expert is a Professor at a prestigious law school, teaching and researching business law, including M&A. This expert has published over 20 articles on M&A, corporate governance, and related topics and is the author of a casebook on business law.
This expert previously worked as an M&A lawyer on private and public transactions and completed a rotation in a capital markets group, working on issuances of debt and equity.
Start Business Transactions 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 Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #286487
This estate damages expert offers comprehensive business valuation, forensic accounting, fraud investigation, and litigation support services for business transactions, shareholder disputes, damages, lost profits, marital dissolution, financial record reconstruction, financial reporting, and tax compliance. This expert has been qualified as an expert witness in both federal and state district courts and has expert witness testimony experience in cases involving business valuation, damages, lost profits, insolvency, and loss of business value due to shareholder derivative actions, class actions, environmental remediation, non-performance on distributorship agreements, wrongful conveyance of lease assignments, fraudulent inducement, marital dissolution, and related matters.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #294450
This damages expert has provided business and financial advice to attorneys and clients in all phases of the litigation process for over 25 years.
This expert's experience includes disputes involving complex financial transactions, intellectual property, lost profits, lost business value, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, warranty claims, franchise and distribution disputes, automobile dealer disputes, insurance claims, employment disputes, and intellectual property infringement issues.
This expert has experience with ecommerce damages, including damages involving tortious interference with prospective and existing contractual and business relationships, lost profits from product sales through online retail channels, and evaluation of opinions associated with patent infringement claims.
Start Business Transactions Expert SearchExpert Witness #306022
This international law, investment, and security expert holds a J.D. and Ph.D. and is an academic specializing in international business transactions, Chinese law, foreign investment, and national security issues. This expert is a law professor at a well-regarded U.S. law school and is affiliated with a prestigious university law faculty. Before holding the current academic role, this expert taught at a prestigious university for over 10 years and held a tenured associate professor role.
This expert previously practiced law in major U.S. and international legal markets, focusing on corporate real estate transactions and white-collar investigations, including matters involving the FCPA. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology, a J.D., an LL.M., and a B.A. from well-regarded universities, including a prominent law school in China.
This expert is a former New York-qualified practitioner and academic with experience involving foreign investment in the United States, especially investment from China, including issues relating to national security. This expert has particular knowledge of SB 264 and was trained in both U.S. and Chinese law. Subsequent legal practice included corporate and real estate law, as well as regulatory issues such as the FCPA.
This expert served as Principal Investigator for an over 5-year research project funded by a major European research grant and based at a prestigious university, addressing issues involving Chinese outbound investment. As part of that project, this expert contributed to a casebook on Chinese outbound investment, law, policy, and business, which examines questions concerning state-business links.
This expert teaches International Business Transactions and Chinese Law, among other topics, and engages frequently with current and former federal employees with experience involving CFIUS. For several years, this expert has conducted research on state legislation that discriminates against Chinese nationals purchasing real estate in the United States, with particular attention to SB 264. That research has resulted in a number of publications, including scholarship addressing property and national security that received an academic award. More recent scholarship analyzing updated data on adversarial comparativism was published in a leading comparative law journal.
This expert's public-facing work on state legislation affecting Chinese nationals in the real estate sector has included engagement with a prominent U.S.-China relations organization, podcast commentary, and writing for a national security and legal affairs publication. More broadly, this expert has been retained by private industry, law firms, and public regulators to assess risks relating to international business. Examples of this work include reviewing legal issues and dispute resolution mechanisms for a major international development project, assessing investment risk in China for a luxury goods company, training government-affiliated audiences on Chinese law and regulation, state-business relations, and the nature of the CCP, and authoring a report on China and global legal norms for a legal audience.
This expert has also worked with a national immigration and refugee adjudication body on China's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities.
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