Investments Expert Witnesses
Start Investments Expert Search
Investments expert witness candidates typically have backgrounds in venture capital, private equity, valuation, financial planning, investment banking, securities law, corporate finance, and financial markets. Cahn Litigation Services is the expert witness placement service provider of choice by law firm clients to locate an expert witness that can support financial services matters, including those involving investments.
In the world of finance, the goal is always a return on investment. The return may be a real estate gain, unrealized capital appreciation, or investment income such as dividends, interest, or rental income. Representative litigation matters that call for an expert in finance and investments involve issues pertaining to:
- Real estate investments
- Hedge fund
- Mutual fund
- Investment management
- Securities litigation
- Fiduciary duty
- FINRA arbitration
- Portfolio management
Litigation support by a financial investments expert witness could represent either the plaintiff or defendant, and work could include case review, arbitration, an expert report, deposition testimony, and/or courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert testimony experience. In addition, clients may seek an investment consultant or financial advisor for pre-litigation consulting services. While an investment consulting expert will have expertise as an investment advisor, an expert witness carries the additional responsibility of providing testimony before the court in a manner whereby lay people can understand the litigation issues and evidence.
Related Disciplines
Investments 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 Investments experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Investments landscape.
Expert Witness #211494
This expert earned a Ph.D. and has additional graduate coursework in Economics, Statistics and Econometrics. This expert was the founder of a financial software company providing software solutions to many banks. This expert is an Executive Professor, teaching multidisciplinary courses that include topic coverage of software architectures, software project implementations, Information Technology investments, Mobile E-Commerce and IT assessments. This expert is currently an Independent Consultant to financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies, and provides litigation support in intellectual property and other matters. As a consultant, this expert implemented software solutions for credit analysis, retail and commercial banking functions. This expert has been selected as the lead consultant and testifying expert in approximately fifteen litigation matters; this expert has a dozen depositions and two trials.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #251964
This expert has many years of experience in asset and property management. Over the years this expert has proven to be an authority in the turnaround of distressed properties, properties with deferred maintenance and mismanagement. This expert has rent-controlled multi-family, high-rise office, industrial/warehouse properties, retail and large hotels. This expert has established hands-on management programs that have maximized the values of the various investments.
This expert is the Founder and President of a successful Management Firm and provides hands-on management services as well as litigation support and expert witness services. This expert is a well-established leader in the field, having held numerous leadership and instructor positions in the national realty management association. This expert has deep experience as a testifying expert supporting both Plaintiffs and Defendants.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #252221
This expert has extensive experience representing privately-held companies that have sought capital and a wide variety of venture funds and private equity organizations that invest in them. This experience has included all manner of preferred stock, convertible debt and hybrid instruments, using National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) documents and otherwise. This work has included all manner of negotiating, structuring, monitoring and operating under these kinds of investment agreements, both before and after the investments, at every stage of development, from friends and family, to seed stage, to growth rounds, to ultimate IPO's. This expert has been listed as one of the top M&A and private equity/venture capital lawyers. This expert has also represented franchisees and franchisors. Although this expert has not previously served as an expert in a litigation matter, this expert's experience in litigation, along with national and state awards received related to extemporaneous speaking and debate may speak to the ability to perform as an effective witness.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #253430
This expert is an accredited business valuation consultant in the Litigation, Forensic, and Valuation Services Group of a nationally recognized leading consultancy. This expert is an executive with many years of experience in valuation, M&A, corporate finance, forensic accounting, litigation support and expert testimony.
This expert's practice includes dozens of engagements over the years related to partnership and other business disputes requiring forensic accounting, damages analysis and business valuation. These disputed matters have often involved companies in the wholesale and retail food industry, shareholder disputes, mergers and acquisitions, buy/sell agreements, and estate planning. This expert has also valued partial equity interests and stock options. This expert provides fair value financial analysis including ASC 805 purchase price allocations and valuations of intangible assets such as trade names/brands, customer relationships, royalties, patents and technology. This expert has also performed lost profits and financial damages analyses.
This expert worked as an independent consultant specializing in business valuation and litigation support, and has spent time working among the ranks of the Big Four. This expert also has experience in investment banking, corporate development, and venture capital investments.
This expert has the distinction of being an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in business valuation with the American Society of Appraisers. This expert is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #258816
This expert is currently a visiting professor of finance at a University. This expert began as an academic and left for an investment company where this expert spent years in various research and financial engineering roles. This expert then joined a Fund Management firm and rose to become the Co-Chief Investment Officer, Alternative Solutions where this expert was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the investment process in the hedge fund of funds business, including discretionary hedge fund portfolios, separately managed accounts, and advisory relationships. This expert managed the Operational Due Diligence teams responsible for reviewing all current and pending investments, and actively conducting on-site due diligence on hedge funds. This expert has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics and a B.A. This expert has undergone deposition and court testimony dating from academic experience and has submitted testimony at arbitration.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #258855
This expert is President and Founder of a highly successful consultancy specializing in due diligence investigation and has analyzed many illiquid, Level 3 hedge fund strategies. This expert has also reviewed dozens of smaller, level 3 strategies including real estate lending, PIPES, trade finance, and trade credits. This expert is an expert at determining what reasonable due diligence standards are for assessing illiquid hedge fund strategies.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #262333
A former federal enforcement attorney and veteran in regulatory compliance and white-collar defense, this expert has expertise and consults with clients throughout the United States in areas of internal investigations, enforcement matters, regulatory issues, and corporate transactions, including advising on mergers and acquisitions in highly complex regulatory structures. This expert has held the Series 7, 24, and 66 licenses with FINRA. This expert also serves as a National Futures Association and FINRA arbitrator.
Prior to forming a firm, this expert was a senior vice president and chief compliance officer of a global financial services and FINRA member firm. This expert was responsible for all aspects of compliance and regulatory responsibilities for multiple registered investment advisors, mutual funds, alternative investments, and a broker-dealer. This expert focused on identifying and assessing the compliance risks of the firms, creating and implementing policies and procedures that address and allows compliance risks to be managed, and reviewing the policies and procedures to determine their continued adequacy and effectiveness.
Previously, this expert served as a senior trial attorney for a Commodity Futures Trading firm managing a team of trial attorneys, investigators and support staff in the investigation and prosecution of market manipulation, market abuse and fraud in the futures and derivatives markets, advising staff in areas of investigations, leading investigations of high profile matters, and facilitating effective engagement and collaborative work with other U.S. regulatory and prosecutorial bodies, international regulators, and exchange staff. This expert served as a liaison to the Office of General Counsel in the revision of policies and procedures pursuant to regulatory reform, including Dodd-Frank, and named to an interagency task force on the collection and retention of sensitive data.
This expert began a career in the Government Compliance, Investigations, and Litigation, White-Collar Criminal Defense, Commercial and Business Litigation, and Digital Discovery and Records Management practice groups. This expert represented clients in the prosecution and defense of complex business disputes in domestic and international jurisdictions, served as counsel to publicly and privately held companies undergoing both internal and external investigations, assisted clients in recognizing and avoiding the expanding risk of corporate criminal liability, and designing and implementing targeted corporate compliance programs. This expert was a founding member of the electronic discovery practice group and has an E-Discovery Best Practices Certification.
This expert has first-chaired trials representing both plaintiffs and defendants in various commercial, criminal, and collection matters.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #248481
This expert is a registered Investment Advisor and worked in brokerage agencies before becoming an independent advisor, and ultimately a consultant. This expert has qualified as an expert in Federal and State Courts as well as in FINRA and NASD arbitration panels in matters of standard of care, due diligence, capitalization, compliance and other market and industry compliance matters.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #235555
This lighting technologies expert holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and is an internationally recognized expert in light sources and lighting technologies. This expert's expertise includes technology development, business strategy, product design, testing, standards, regulatory compliance, civil and intellectual property litigation, and technology investments, with particular focus on LEDs, lasers, other light sources, and lighting applications including automotive, general illumination, therapeutic lighting, horticultural lighting, and displays.
Before beginning consulting work, this expert served in a regulations and emerging technologies leadership role at a lighting and semiconductor company and held technical positions at automotive lighting and automotive manufacturing companies. This expert has served as an expert witness in intellectual property, product safety, and quality disputes, including expert declarations, depositions, and court testimony in inter partes review (IPR) matters, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) matters, and federal court matters involving LEDs, lasers, and lighting applications.
This expert holds an M.S. degree in Applied Physics and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. This expert is a named inventor on over 5 U.S. patents, has given numerous invited presentations, and has contributed to over 50 technical papers, over 15 books, and magazine articles. This expert is a Fellow of a prominent automotive engineering association, a Senior Member of a prominent optics and photonics organization, and has received multiple industry awards.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #260036
This mortgage lending expert has over 40 years of experience in real estate mortgage and financing, private and hard money lending, mortgage investigations, wrongful closure, foreclosures, title, escrow, real estate investments, and real estate management.
This expert has been retained as an expert witness on many occasions.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #261325
This damages expert has over 30 years' experience in consulting, valuation, and litigation support, as well as researching, publishing, and teaching at the university level. Experience includes implementing a broad range of damages analyses and valuations for businesses of various sizes and in numerous industries. This expert has held senior leadership roles in research, valuation, and litigation support, and has served as a professor at a leading university.
This expert is a well-credentialed economist with extensive experience identifying and calculating damages from lost wages, lost pension matching, investments, and growth of pension funds. This expert has worked with physicians to calculate damages and expenses for past, current, and future medical treatment, ongoing care, medication costs, and necessary durable medical equipment.
This expert has prepared expert reports and testified in federal and state courts, as well as in AAA, JAMS, and FINRA arbitration hearings, and has communicated effectively as an expert witness and consultant in high-value cases. This expert has been published in distinguished academic and practitioner journals and serves on an editorial board.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #282687
This RIA mergers and acquisition/recruitment expert has a B.A. in Business Administration and a J.D. and is an experienced senior investment professional with over thirty-five years of investment management and consulting experience. This expert has broad experience in many aspects of the securities industry, with first-hand experience in RIA mergers and acquisition, trading, clearing, custody, and recruiting and supervising Financial Advisors.
This expert is a member of a securities expert roundtable and has spent recent years working as a chief operating and compliance officer for mid-sized independent RIAs. Responsibilities have included recruiting and onboarding Registered Investment Advisors. This expert has experience supporting arbitration, litigation, and enforcement matters, conducting internal investigations, and responding to and resolving regulatory investigations and examinations.
Examples of previous litigation work include interpretation of securities and commodity statements and analysis of transactions; determination of client suitability and improper solicitation; in-depth analysis of options trading and how market volatility affects client holdings; suitability analysis of client investments; discovery of excessive trading ratios, including cost-to-equity, commission-to-equity, and turnover; clarification of client versus broker control of accounts and determination of broker self-interest; assessment of the validity of client complaints; statutory violations of the 33 and 34 Acts; and determination of client/RIA Fiduciary Duty, among other issues.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #282740
This financial services expert has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a brief hiatus while completing a law degree at well-regarded universities. Over the course of this expert's career, including over 25 years in 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 roles with member firms in compliance, operations, and corporate finance.
This expert is particularly experienced in matters involving the review of complex trading strategies to ensure suitability requirements and customer protection. This expert has also supported small and mid-sized companies, including assisting with capital-raising efforts and other business consulting services. This expert's advice has centered, in part, on regulatory guidance, business plan development, and financial modeling.
This expert has experience with private placement memoranda, Series A investments, investor decks, and marketing materials, including hands-on experience with these investments as a CCO and experience addressing these topics as an expert witness.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #287697
This gaming economics, management, operations and regulation expert has worked with colleagues at a gaming and leisure advisory firm for over 35 years on studies of the economics, management, operations, taxation, and regulation of leisure and entertainment businesses in many states, provinces, and foreign countries, with particular focus on gaming and wagering.
The subjects of these studies have included sports, entertainment, communications, casinos, sports wagering, lotteries, and all segments of the racing and pari-mutuel wagering industries. These projects have included advising clients on alternative gaming and leisure strategies in legal proceedings, legislative efforts, and proceedings before regulatory agencies; optimizing gambling privilege tax rates and assessing the impacts of changing tax rates on government and industry revenues; assessing the overall economic contribution of commercial gambling industries to countries, states, and localities; assessing the degree of gaming saturation and potential for growth in various markets; estimating the revenue potential and economic feasibility of new projects; assessing the value of existing gambling facilities; evaluating the economic impact of commercial gambling located on U.S. Indian lands on non-tribal state-regulated wagering industries; and advising state governments and lotteries on issues associated with lottery operational efficiency, product analysis, privatization, and valuation.
With over 45 years of combined principal and associate experience in gambling, this expert's firm has substantial experience in this sector of the economy. Unlike general consulting firms, the firm includes specialists in gambling and related forms of leisure. The firm is regularly cited as an authority on gambling in the news media and has a strong reputation for integrity, detail, knowledge, and skill in assessing existing and new gambling markets and investments.
The firm has advised numerous racing and gaming commissions, state lotteries, gaming or wagering licensees and license applicants, vendors, law firms, and investment banks.
This expert has significant expert witness experience on many gambling industry topics, as well as subject-matter experience with sports betting and sports betting regulation. This expert has followed and is familiar with the increasing instances of palpable-error issues in many states as sports betting has rapidly expanded across the United States.
Start Investments 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.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #303435
This venture capital and technology expert is an over 25-year veteran of private equity, credit, and technology markets and has served as a founding partner at a prominent global alternative asset management firm. This expert is a proven global business builder, strategic thinker, and technology investor with deep experience driving value creation across venture, mature, public, and private companies.
This expert currently leads a technology product and services firm focused on helping enterprises solve high-ROI problems through AI, data, automation, machine learning, and computer vision. This expert previously served as CEO of an AI and computer vision company, where this expert executed a complex turnaround, eliminated significant losses, repositioned the business toward practical AI solutions sold to the C-suite, and led the company to a successful sale. Earlier career experience includes senior leadership roles at investment and asset management firms, with responsibility for transformative investments in technology and digital infrastructure companies. This expert holds an MBA from a prestigious business school and a B.A. in History from a well-regarded university. This expert focuses on leveraging AI and automation to create sustainable competitive advantage and profitable scale.
This expert has worked in the technology, private equity, private credit, and venture sectors as a partner and operating executive for over 20 years. Most recently, this expert served as a turnaround CEO for an AI and computer vision company that was in bankruptcy. This expert is closely familiar with software, technology, nondisclosure agreements, duty of care, and related business issues. Over more than 20 years, this expert has reviewed and written thousands of investor decks.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Investments Expert SearchExpert Witness #305799
This mortgage lending expert possesses extensive experience in real property, real property secured transactions, and securities in which the investments include interests in real property.
This expert has provided expert testimony in over 750 cases and testified before state legislative committees, planning commissions, city councils, and boards of supervisors, and has participated in drafting proposed legislation and regulations. This expert chaired a finance advisory commission of a state real estate regulatory agency that primarily considered mortgage lending, banking, brokerage, and the issuance and sale of securities, and also chaired a number of regulatory and industry committees and task forces. This expert has consulted with a state real estate regulatory agency for over 40 years, among other roles involving California real estate regulation.
Start Investments Expert Search