Expert profile
Highlights
- Forensic accountant with more than 40 years of experience.
- Teaches at Stanford University’s School of Civil and Environment Engineering.
- Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.
- International and domestic experience across courts, tribunals and alternative dispute resolution forums.
- Certified Public Accountant.
- Certified in Financial Forensics.
- Chartered Global Management Accountant.
- Recognised in Lexology Index.
Services
Antitrust & Competition | Business Valuation | Economic Damages | Forensic Accounting | Insurance Claims | Investigations | International ArbitrationIndustries
Financial Services | Industrial & Manufacturing | Transportation Infrastructure | Real Estate & Tourism | Sports & Entertainment | Technology, Media & Telecoms
Avram is a powerful expert witness with a high degree of integrity. He possesses extraordinary skill and agility as a witness. His work is detailed and precise.
Lexology Index - Arbitration
Expertise
Avram S Tucker (Ave) is a forensic accountant with more than 40 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert on hundreds of occasions.
Ave has provided expert testimony in deposition, trial, hearings or arbitration on approximately 250 cases. He has appeared in various state and federal civil courts and administrative proceedings, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Bankruptcy Court, as well as before Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) proceedings, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Armed Service Board of Contract Appeals, the Postal Service Board of Contract Appeals, and multiple state Utility/Commerce Commissions. He has also testified in arbitrations in, or involving, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, South Africa, Switzerland, Japan, China, Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom.
Ave has performed more than 500 forensic accounting, economic and operational studies to address liability, causation and damages aspects of disputes in connection with litigation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, regulatory investigations and alternative dispute resolution. These studies include analysis of companies in various industries, including study of financial condition, business operations, market and economic factors, and the effects of competition. He has performed causation and liability analyses to assess specific factual allegations; reasons for changes in a company’s financial condition; causes and timing of insolvency; factors resulting in a company’s bankruptcy; financial statements, disclosures and other representations; and whether damages claimed are caused by the liability allegations in the dispute. Ave has prepared or analyzed damage claims relating to increased costs, lost profits, business value, asset value, royalties and disgorgement.
Professional recognition
Lexology Index
Consulting – Forensic Accountant – Global Elite Thought Leader
Firm Management – Thought Leader
GIR – Investigations Forensic Accountant – Thought Leader
Investigations – Forensic Accountant – Thought Leader
USA – Forensic Accountants – Thought Leader
Client Choice – Investigations Forensic Accountants
Energy
Commercial Litigation
Avram’s presentations and testimonial skills are outstanding. His unmatched level of experience enables him to contribute to the development of winning positions. His reports are very strong.
Lexology Index - Investigations - Forensic Accountants
Background
Ave’s expert consulting experience includes antitrust, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, professional negligence, intellectual property issues, entertainment and sports, environmental and product defect, government contracts, real estate, securities and the SEC, shareholder disputes, construction, commercial damages, breach of contract, fraud investigations and insurance claims and coverage. He supports clients in dispute proceedings regarding commercial damages and valuations, contractual breaches, liability, and fraud investigations. He has consulted on compliance with contractual terms and conditions (from an accounting, economic and operational perspective) relating to license, distribution, merger and acquisition, manufacturing and production, design, royalty, teaming, marketing, partnership, research and development, construction, government contracting, maintenance and other agreements. He has also consulted on the proper application of generally accepted accounting principles (covering the proper accounting and presentation on financial statements and other financial documents of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses and equity, as well as the appropriateness of financial statement disclosures).
Ave is a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Global Management Accountant and is Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He has also been recognized by Lexology Index. He regularly lectures to companies, outside counsel, industry groups and at universities, and is also an officer and member of the executive committee of the George Washington University Board of Trustees.
Qualifications
BBA Accounting
CPA
CFF
CGMA
Professional Memberships
AICPA
Contact Avram
Email: avetucker@hka.com
Tel: +1 415 359 5030
Location:
3595 Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Suite 250
Lafayette, CA 94549