Expert profile

John Levitske

Partner

Highlights

Highly experienced and qualified business valuation, forensic accounting, and economic damages professional.
Expert witness in litigation, arbitration and international arbitration.
Testimony experience in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
Recognised by Lexology Index in various guides.
Business valuation expert in multi-billion-dollar disputes.
Forensic accountant for the largest bankruptcy in US history.
Neutral arbitrator in several post-acquisition accounting and valuation disputes.
Adjunct faculty member at Benedictine University and regular contributor to ABA publications.

Services

Industries

With over 40 years of industry experience, John Levitske is a leading expert in financial advisory and business valuation. He offers distinct expertise in the quantification of economic damages and is sought after by clients globally for his in-depth knowledge on a vast array of high-stakes and complex disputes.
Lexology Index - Consulting - Financial Advisory and Valuation - Quantum of Damages

Expertise

John Levitske has over 40 years of professional experience. He has been retained as an expert regarding business valuation, forensic accounting, and commercial damages matters on numerous occasions.

John’s expert witness work includes jury and bench trials, mediations, and arbitrations (including ICC, LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL, AAA, JAMS, FINRA, and ad hoc) in the US and internationally. He has acted as an expert for multi-billion-dollar disputes and has also served as a neutral arbitrator and as an independent advisor to the mediator.

John’s expertise includes business valuation, forensic accounting, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), international financial reporting standards (IFRS), and economic damages issues in complex commercial situations. These include shareholder disputes, bankruptcy disputes, M&A transaction disputes, corporate alter-ego disputes, and other business disputes.

Professional recognition

Lexology Index

Arbitration
Investigations – Forensic Accountants
Consulting – Financial Advisory and Valuation – Quantum of Damages
Consulting – Forensic Accountant

John brings an encyclopaedic knowledge of the business appraisal field and a professorial demeanor to the witness stand. His ability to recall a complex set of facts is impressive.
Lexology Index - Investigations - Forensic Accountants

Background

John spent over 30 years working for Big Four public accounting, global valuation and corporate financial advisory, and international business advisory and expert consulting firms. He has extensive experience in advising when disagreements or uncertainty arise regarding quantifications of value, price or economic damages of a business or a stakeholder interest in a business. He founded a business valuation dispute analysis practice, co-founded an acquisition agreement vetting practice, and was one of the leaders of a post-acquisition dispute practice. He works across all industries for both private and public companies.

John is a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, and Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuation who holds several additional professional certifications in valuation, forensics and insolvency analysis. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in finance at Benedictine University, Goodwin College of Business, an instructor in accounting and financial analysis in HKA’s consultant school training program, co-chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section’s Investigations, Enforcement & White Collar Business & Corporate Litigation Subcommittee, and chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. He is a former member of the Standing Committee on Audit of the ABA enterprise, past national president of the Forensic Expert Witness Association, and past chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Dispute Resolution Committee. He has authored numerous chapters for ABA publications regarding post-acquisition disputes, corporate internal investigations, and shareholder disputes, and delivers lectures regarding his areas of expertise to various professional groups.