Expert profile

Cheryl A LeeVan

Partner

Highlights

Certified Public Accountant.
More than 30 years of consulting experience.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination in litigation and arbitration.
Experienced in forensic accounting, investigations, commercial damages, construction, and government contracting.
Certified in Financial Forensics.

Services

Industries

Buildings | Federal & State Government Contracts | Financial Services | Industrial & Manufacturing | Power & Utilities

Cheryl LeeVan comes highly recommended for her extensive experience handling an array of complex government contract projects. Sources say, “She is a great communicator”.
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Expertise

Cheryl A LeeVan is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years of experience. She has been appointed as an expert on over 50 occasions and has assisted other experts on more than 100 matters.

Cheryl has presented analysis and expert opinions in federal court, state court, international arbitration, and American Arbitration Association proceedings as well as in deposition, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution venues.

Cheryl’s expertise in commercial damages includes causation, lost profits, reasonable royalty, purchase price disputes, business interruption and other economic damages. She has extensive experience preparing claims and REAs for changed work, acceleration and delay and disruption on construction and government contract projects. Cheryl has prepared termination claims and assisted contractors in responding to assertions of disallowance of costs and cost accounting challenges on government contract projects, including disputes involving the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). Her expertise in investigations and accounting reviews includes regulated industries investigations (false claim/qui tam lawsuits and self-disclosures) and commercial investigations (Securities and Exchange Commission investigations, accounting reviews, whistle-blower and hotline disclosures, class action and other shareholder lawsuits).

Professional recognition

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Projects and Procurement

Background

Cheryl has a broad consulting background in commercial damages, construction and government contract projects, fraud investigations, and accounting reviews. Her industry experience includes aerospace and aerostructures, avionics, construction, engines and propulsion systems, energy, environmental services, financial services, healthcare, information technology, insurance, manufacturing, mutual funds, professional services, risk advisory and investment services, satellites and rockets, shipbuilding, telecommunications and cable, and waste management and recycling.

Cheryl is also Certified in Financial Forensics, a Chartered Global Management Accountant and holds a BBA in finance and economics. She has presented to universities, companies, outside counsel and industry groups such as the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, The George Washington University School of Business, and the American Bar Association.