Paul Ficca

Paul Ficca has over 37 years of experience in forensic accounting and litigation consulting. He has been retained as a quantum and damages expert on more than 40 occasions.

Paul has testified in jury and bench trials in multiple court jurisdictions and at various arbitration and litigation venues domestically and internationally. He has been engaged as an expert witness for disputes with values in excess of a billion dollars regarding real estate and construction, mergers and acquisitions, government enforcement actions, environmental litigation, insurance, complex forensic accounting investigations, and other commercial contract disputes.

Paul has held several executive management positions leading large consulting groups specializing in economic, forensic, and investigative services. His experience ranges from dispute resolution, claims analysis, quantum calculations, project controls consulting, auditing, and in-depth studies of costs for a wide range of projects and clients. Paul has consulted on residential, commercial, hotel and resort, retail, education, healthcare, public, and sports projects, as well as mixed-use and high-rise buildings.

Paul specializes in calculating economic damages and direct cost losses. He analyses matters ranging from differing site conditions, architectural defects and scope change impacts to alleged product defects, delay and damages, and losses related to labor, materials, equipment, and contract termination. Paul has been retained on transportation infrastructure projects such as roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, seaport and marine facilities, and transit systems. His assignments have also included industrial and manufacturing facilities for the production of steel, semiconductors, and ships; mining and metals, offshore oil and gas, pipelines, and petrochemical facilities; fossil fuel, nuclear, and renewable energy projects; natural resource mining; utilities such as wastewater treatment plants and electrical transmission and distribution.

Paul is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is Certified in Financial Forensics. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Institute of Management Accountants.