Expert profile

Franco Benza

Associate Director

Highlights

Certified Valuation Analyst and Certified Cost Professional.
Proven as a credible expert witness under cross-examination.
Expert in financial and economic damages analysis.
Skilled in business valuations and lost profits assessments.
Specialist in construction productivity loss assessments.
Extensive experience in arbitration and litigation support.
Bilingual expert witness, fluent in English and Spanish.

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Expertise

Franco Benza is a Certified Valuation Analyst and Certified Cost Professional with more than 15 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert regarding financial and economics matters of numerous occasions.

Franco has provided expert witness testimony in arbitration and has extensive experience supporting cases in ICC, ICSID, and UNCITRAL arbitrations. He has signed expert reports and supported litigation cases in English and Spanish and has acted as the named expert for disputed projects with values of up to $700 million.

Franco specializes in quantifying economic and financial damages, lost profits, and business valuations. He also assesses cost overruns and productivity loss for construction related disputes. He has undertaken analysis for renewable energy, oil and gas, transportation infrastructure, food industry, and other construction projects in Latin America and the United States.

Background

Franco has managed financial, forensic investigations, fraud, internal audit, and process improvement cases. He has supported a variety of international clients regarding the investigation of financial, economic, and accounting data, led retail banking process improvement initiatives, and has also implemented cost reduction projects in Peru and Colombia.

Franco is a member of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) and the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACE). He is bilingual in English and Spanish.