Financial Law Expert Witnesses

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Financial law regulates insurance, derivatives, commercial banking, capital markets and investment banking. A financial law expert witness must not only have the appropriate substantive expertise, but should also possess the ability to explain complex financial issues and expert evidence to a judge and jury.

Litigation support by a financial law expert witness could include document analysis, an expert report, expert opinion, opposing counsel deposition, trial preparation, and testimony in court. In a high-profile case, or a litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert testimony experience. In addition, counsel may request a banking expert or financial law consulting expert for pre-litigation consulting work.

Representing the plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called upon by attorney clients to locate a financial expert witness for a wide range of litigation matters requiring a testifying expert. The firm has performed numerous searches for a financial law expert witness for matters including fraud, business valuation, FINRA arbitration, unjust enrichment, forensic accounting, financial exploitation, derivatives, antitrust disputes, contract disputes, and economic damages. The firm has an earned reputation for providing experts with the right balance of expertise and testimony experience for each unique project and its nuances.

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

• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #250390

  This expert is a Partner in a highly successful Economic Litigation group, is an economics and valuation expert and forensic accountant. This expert holds a CPA with a master’s degree and a law degree, has served as a Special Master and Court-appointed Arbitrator. This expert has conducted royalty audits, negotiated licenses, and valued businesses and intellectual property for several dozen Fortune 500 companies and NLJ 250 law firms. Further, this expert has testified at more than 45 trials and arbitrations involving patent/trademark/copyright/trade secret, joint venture, franchise, acquisition, purchase price, and international transaction disputes.

  This expert has been published in journals and law reviews. This expert has participated as a speaker at ABA, AIPLA, IPO, LES, and university conferences or seminar classes. This expert has also served on the faculties of law and business schools.

  This expert practiced public accounting with Big Five firms, and is a Certified Public Accountant, and is Certified in Financial Forensics, Global Management Accounting and Patent Valuation.

  
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• Expert 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 claims

  This 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #262355

  Having served as Chief Compliance Officer of a full-service broker-dealer for many years with responsibilities for investment banking and merger and acquisitions compliance and oversight, this expert has the expertise with respect to best practices/duties and responsibilities/obligations of a registered broker dealer.

  This expert heads a highly successful and sought-after compliance and regulatory consultancy specializing in matters relating to the broker-dealer and investment adviser community.

  This expert has held the following Securities Licenses:

  -  Series 24 - General Securities Principal

  -  Series 14 - Compliance Official Examination

  -  Series 8 - General Securities Sales Supervisor Examination

  -  Series 7 - General Securities Representative Examination

  -  Series 63 - Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination Series

  -  65 - Uniform Investment Advisor Agent Law Examination

  -  Manager - Financial Services Authority

  This expert has served as:

  -  a speaker and lecturer for numerous conferences and events for the SEC, NYSE, NASD, NASAA, SIA, SIFMA, and other events sponsored by industry and regulatory organizations on multiple topics dealing with Compliance

  -  a member of the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Compliance & Legal Division Executive Committee

  -  a member of a Board Options Exchange Compliance Advisory Panel

  -  a member of a Business Conduct Committee

  -  a member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Compliance Advisory Committee

  This expert has been engaged as an expert witness on more than 120 matters encompassing a full range of issues relating to the customs and practices, duties, responsibilities, and obligations of a registered broker dealer. This expert has testified at hearings or in deposition in more than 40 cases in federal courts, state courts, FINRA Office of Hearing Officer proceedings, American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration proceedings, and FINRA Arbitration proceedings.

  
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• Expert Witness #263886

  This expert leads a highly successful consultancy specializing in Forensic Accounting, Economic Damage Analysis and resolving disputes by providing technical expertise in the relevant accounting and damages issues. This expert brings to the table many years of experience in public and private industry accounting, including forensic accounting and litigation support for both Plaintiffs and Defendants. Additionally, this expert has served in a financial management position with a multinational law firm analyzing economic damages for individuals, small businesses, and multinationals, regarding including the following: loss of business income; inventory, equipment and other contents losses; embezzlements; financial motive and fraud investigations. Some of the types of businesses reviewed include (not a comprehensive list):  manufacturing, retail/wholesale, service, agricultural and others.

  This expert has testified as expert witness in Federal and State Courts, and has testified on numerous occasions in a wide variety of economic damage and fraud related cases.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #269428

  This investor and corporations with personal fiduciaries expert has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, is a licensed FINRA registered representative, and is an experienced expert witness.

  This expert has supported both plaintiffs and defendants in matters relating to trustee breach of fiduciary duty, trustee breach of duty of impartiality, and other duties required of trustees by law. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, this expert served in responsible industry roles at leading financial institutions.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #280362

  This forensic psychiatry expert is a practicing psychiatrist and consultant forensic psychiatrist with expertise in geriatric and elder abuse matters and claims of undue influence. This expert is board-certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, holds clinical and consulting roles in forensic psychiatry, and maintains a private clinical psychiatry practice.

  This expert has been an invited presenter on elder financial abuse and undue influence, and has experience as a legal consultant, expert witness, and professional member of a prominent professional organization focused on psychiatry and law.

  
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• Expert Witness #282744

  This FINRA/broker compliance expert has over 30 years of financial services industry experience, with a brief hiatus while completing a law degree. Within the financial services industry, this expert has acquired broad knowledge and experience from both business operations and legal/compliance perspectives. This expert has held various compliance, operations, and corporate finance roles with member firms. This expert is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") Arbitrator Roster and serves as a Non-Public Arbitrator for securities industry matters. This expert is also qualified as an arbitrator for the National Futures Association (NFA) in matters relating to violations within the commodities and derivatives marketplace.

  This expert has worked on over 25 cases in recent years involving a range of issues, including U-4/U-5 matters, fiduciary duty matters, investment banking matters, and supervision of Registered Representatives/Financial Advisors. This expert has also testified on several occasions before FINRA Arbitration panels.

  
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• Expert Witness #299385

  This credit reporting expert has substantial experience serving as an expert for background screening companies, particularly regarding reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy and dispute handling related to reports containing criminal records in the employment and tenant screening space.

  This expert has held senior law firm leadership roles in credit reporting, privacy, and data security. This expert is an experienced advocate and litigator, representing clients before federal and state agencies and courts, particularly the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in investigations and other proceedings.

  
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• Expert Witness #300696

  This Islamic law and finance expert has considerable expertise in Islamic law and finance, has taught and written extensively in the field, and began an academic career as a Lecturer in Islamic Law at a prominent London university in the late 1980s.

  This expert founded a prominent yearbook focused on Islamic and Middle Eastern law and served as its main editor for several years. Scholarly work includes edited and authored books on Islamic law, finance, and Middle Eastern law, including a reference book in the field.

  This expert is known for knowledge of modern Middle Eastern law, especially in the Arab Gulf, as well as classical Islamic law transactions connected to the rise of Islamic finance in the 1980s. This expertise has supported expert testimony in commercial disputes and engagements involving Islamic finance and banking.

  This expert was called upon by a national central bank in Southeast Asia in the late 2010s to organize a curriculum on Islamic law and banking for leading executives in the finance and banking sectors, and gave intensive courses for shari'a banking experts in a major Southeast Asian financial center.

  This expert has given dozens of expert testimonies in courts across the common law world.

  
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• Expert Witness #300708

  This international sanctions compliance expert practices law and provides strategic counsel on complex cross-border compliance and enforcement issues affected by political, policy, and legal decisions. This expert has advised domestic and international clients, including governments, multilateral organizations, financial institutions, companies facing crises, and people seeking strategic counsel on law and policy, with work spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, North Africa, and East Asia.

  This expert has relevant experience in international sanctions compliance and related expert work. This expert was responsible for policy development and legislation for a U.S. senator in the areas of banking and financial services, foreign relations, and law enforcement. This expert conducted numerous Congressional investigations involving international money laundering, drug trafficking, corruption, and fraud, including matters involving international political controversy, drug trafficking and money laundering in the Caribbean and Central America, and the global activities of a major international financial institution. This expert also had primary authorship responsibility for a Senate final report concerning that financial institution.

  
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• Expert Witness #300731

  This Islamic law and finance expert holds a PhD and is an academic professor with extensive experience in Islamic finance.

  This expert has taught Islamic banking and finance for over 20 years at a well-regarded graduate school of law and diplomacy and is the author of a number of books, articles, and book chapters on Islamic finance, global finance, financial law and practice, and related topics.

  This expert also has extensive experience as a consultant and as an expert witness.

  
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• Expert Witness #305510

  This maritime law expert has extensive experience in maritime and commercial law, advising across the global shipping and commercial sectors.

  Experience includes vessel registration under international flag administrations, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory and technical requirements; vessel financing and mortgaging, advising lenders, financial institutions, and vessel owners on secure and compliant financing structures; maritime claims and litigation involving complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes within the maritime industry; commercial litigation and arbitration, with a focus on high-value disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals; and regulatory advisory services, including concession agreements and sector-specific compliance frameworks within the maritime and port industries.

  
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• Expert Witness #306135

  This international law, investment, and security expert is a senior regulatory and litigation attorney who represents clients in complex cross-border regulatory matters and commercial disputes.

  Drawing on over a decade of experience and prior service at a federal financial agency, this expert provides strategic counsel in high-stakes compliance and transactional matters, particularly those involving international legal risk. This expert has developed deep expertise in international trade law, with a focus on economic sanctions, export controls, inbound investment screening (CFIUS), tariff classification and mitigation, anti-corruption compliance, and lobbying law.

  This expert regularly advises corporations, investors, and sovereign entities on structuring transactions in alignment with U.S. legal and policy frameworks and represents clients through all stages before significant executive branch agencies. This expert is a frequent speaker on trade, tariff, and regulatory issues and earned degrees from a well-regarded law school and a well-regarded university.

  
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