Mortgage Backed Securities Expert Witnesses

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Mortgage backed securities expert witness candidates typically have backgrounds in securities law, investment banking, and/or capital markets. Cahn Litigation Services is the expert witness placement service provider of choice by law firm clients to locate expert witnesses that can support securities and other financial services matters. Representative matters that call for an expert in mortgage backed security (MBS) litigation involve issues pertaining to:

• commercial mortgage loans risk management,
• lender due diligence,
• real estate pricing,
• underwriting,
• borrowers in financial crisis,
• appraisal disputes,
• residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS),
• commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) fixed-income investments,
• fiduciary duty and misrepresentations,
• hedge fund structuring,
• valuation, and
• mortgage backed securities class action.

Litigation support by securities expert witnesses could include case reviews, an expert report, expert testimony, and/or courtroom testimony. While many experts have expertise in MBS 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 many years of experience locating finance experts to provide litigation support, including those specializing in mortgage backed securities.

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Mortgage Backed Securities Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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

• Expert Witness #262128

  This expert specializes in derivatives, structured finance/securitization, finance and securities matters. This expert's experience includes asset-backed securities (ABS) of various types, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), credit default swaps (CDS), interest rate swaps, credit-linked notes (CLNs), repurchase ("repo") agreements and securities fraud.

  As a transactional attorney this expert has been an Associate, Special Counsel or Partner at several of the leading transactional law firms in the United States. As an expert witness and/or consultant, this expert has worked with many of the leading litigation firms, and leading litigation departments of full-service firms, in the country.

  This expert has drafted, reviewed and negotiated 100s of interest rate swap agreements. At one time this expert was the main swaps attorney for a firm, which at the time was the leading swaps dealer in the world. As legal representative to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) this expert was heavily involved in the drafting and negotiation of the Master Agreement forms that are still used throughout the swaps industry. This expert has served as an expert witness and consultant in a number of cases involving interest rate swaps.

  This expert is often called upon to participate in or moderate various seminars.

  This expert served as Chairman of the Structured Finance Committee of a State Bar Association. This expert is listed on American Arbitration Association's roster of arbitrators.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #286769

  This mortgage expert is a finance executive with over 25 years of experience in the banking industry, including leadership roles in regional lending, city and area bank leadership, banking marketing and sales, county-level banking leadership, and group-level banking management.

  This expert has testified in recent years in many residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) cases involving the bundling of mortgages into packages for sale.

  
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• Expert Witness #288108

  This securities/SEC expert is an attorney who, prior to consulting work, served as a senior legal executive and assistant general counsel to a major retail brokerage firm, overseeing litigation and regulatory matters affecting the firm. This expert managed securities litigation and arbitration matters before moving into a senior regulatory counsel role. In that capacity, this expert handled high-profile regulatory matters involving mutual fund breakpoints, mutual fund market timing, inactive fee-based accounts, and closed-end funds, and also served as senior regulatory counsel to an investment advisory line of business.

  This expert began a legal career as a Staff Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance, and later worked as a corporate and securities associate in the office of a well-regarded law firm. This expert became involved in mortgage-backed securities, commodity-based hedge funds, and corporate governance issues. This expert returned to the SEC in the Division of Enforcement, working on matters involving complex financial fraud, insider trading, broker-dealer issues, and revenue recognition. This expert also served as a senior legal officer, corporate secretary, and member of the senior management team of a bank-affiliated brokerage firm.

  
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