Forensic Accounting Archives – Page 7 of 10

Jonathan Ellis

Jonathan Ellis is a forensic accountant with nearly two decades of experience. He has been appointed as an expert on more than 25 occasions.

Jonathan is an expert I would strongly recommend and turn to. He is very good at expressing himself, both verbally and in writing. He is charming, calm and collected.

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Jonathan has acted as expert on matters before the UK and Singapore High Courts as well as in ad hoc, SIAC, LCIA, ICC, HKIAC, UNCITRAL and ICSID arbitration forums. He has provided oral testimony on numerous occasions, in both court and arbitration, and has been engaged as a tribunal appointed expert.

Jonathan has advised and supported clients in mergers and acquisitions transactions, corporate restructuring, financial reporting, and expert determination. He is experienced across multiple sectors including energy, power, pharmaceutical, mining, and manufacturing. His consulting experience also includes advising two utility suppliers in the Middle East, in respect of both water and power.

Jonathan specialises in the assessment of complex damages and contentious valuations, in particular in the context of disputes, for litigation, arbitration, and expert determination purposes. He is also experienced in conducting independent accounting investigations and reviews.

Jonathan holds a master’s in accounting and management science and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Asia Pacific Institute of Experts. He is a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators and the thought leadership group of the Singapore ICC Arbitration Group.

Jonathan Ellis is an “effective expert witness”, thanks to his market-leading advisory and valuation work on financial matters arising from complex transactions, investigations and related disputes.

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Clare Lavin

Clare Lavin is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience. She has been appointed as an accounting expert on numerous occasions.

Clare Lavin is a highly esteemed litigation expert witness known to peers and clients for being “extremely precise and unflappable during cross-examination” in complex disputes.

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Clare has testified and been involved in litigation matters predominantly in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Court and also supported clients and experts in matters before the Abu Dhabi Federal court, the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court, Dubai Courts, the High Court of England and Wales, the High Court of New Zealand, the Commercial Court in Riyadh, the Belgium Courts and the Antwerp Enterprise Court. Her international arbitration experience includes matters before many arbitral institutions.

Clare has a background in transaction services including financial due diligence and acquisition advisory services. She has worked across Europe and the Middle East and has experience across a number of sectors, but most notably hospitality and leisure, real estate, oil and gas, construction, shipping, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and distribution.

Clare specialises in commercial disputes and corporate investigations. She has been engaged across a wide variety of disputed matters ranging from shareholder disputes, contract breaches, SPA disputes and earn-out arrangements to professional negligence, post-acquisition disputes, joint venture disputes and contract termination. Clare has also been involved in complex financial fraud investigations and other forensic accounting engagements.

Clare is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an advanced professional award in expert witness evidence (APAEWE) from Legal Experience Training. She is a highly recognised and well-regarded accounting expert witness in Dubai and beyond.

Clare Lavin is a highly regarded accounting expert with over 23 years of experience, specialising in commercial disputes. She has testified and been involved in litigation matters across the Middle East, Europe and the UK, and has a reputation for being “diligent, highly responsive and a pleasure to work with”.

Lexology Index – Commercial Litigation

William Gladden

William Gladden (Bill) is a Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years of experience. He has been an expert and assisted other experts on hundreds of matters.

William Gladden is widely regarded as one of the leading accountants for all public procurement matters due to his extensive experience consulting on damages across various sectors,
including aerospace, construction and services.

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Bill has testified as an expert on damages related issues in both trial and at deposition. He has also presented accounting and damages analysis for mediations and settlement negotiations.

Bill has consulted on a wide range of issues related to commercial damages, claim preparation, and investigations. He has advised clients across numerous industries including aerospace, construction, financial services, manufacturing, professional services, and shipbuilding.

Bill’s expertise in commercial damages includes causation, lost profits, purchase price disputes, settlement calculations and distributions, and other economic damages. His expertise in contract claims includes claim preparation and review within the government contracting and construction industries, including disputes involving the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). Bill’s expertise in investigations includes government contracting investigations (false claim/qui tam lawsuits and self-disclosures) and commercial investigations (Securities and Exchange Commission investigations, accounting reviews, class action and other shareholder lawsuits).

Bill is also Certified in Financial Forensics, a Charted Global Management Accountant, and a Certified Management Accountant. He holds an MBA in accounting and finance and has lectured to public agencies and universities.

Whitney Alary

Whitney Alary has more than 15 years of business and litigation consulting experience. She has been retained as an economic and damages expert and has assisted the named expert on numerous occasions.

Whitney has determined economic damages in a variety of matters related to commercial litigation, government contracts, class actions, bankruptcy, and intellectual property. She has prepared and analyzed claims for lost profits, increased costs, loss of business value, and other financial and economic impacts. She has also investigated and analyzed fraud allegations, including under the False Claims Act.

Whitney has assisted clients across a variety of industries such as aerospace, government contracts, energy, mortgage banking, software, construction, investment management, financial services, professional services, entertainment and sports, and telecommunications.

Whitney specializes in complex data analysis, including building intricate and dynamic financial models and constructing, managing, and analyzing large databases.

Whitney holds a degree in business economics with minors in accounting and Spanish from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Robert G Dwyer

Robert G Dwyer is a forensic accountant with more than 40 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert on more than 25 occasions.

Robert has provided expert testimony on economic, accounting, finance, and damages topics in California Superior Court, Federal District Court, the United States Bankruptcy Court, and in arbitration. He has also assisted with expert witness preparation for testimony on hundreds of disputes.

Robert has over 25 years of experience consulting to companies, government agencies and outside counsel on forensic accounting, economic damages, and business valuation issues. He has advised across a variety of sectors including entertainment and sports, construction, real estate, industrial and manufacturing, power, and transport infrastructure.

Robert’s expert analysis incorporates causes of business failure, claims for increased costs, lost profits, loss of business value, and other economic damages. He has assisted clients in bankruptcy matters by studying the debtor’s solvency at different points in time and determining whether reasonably equivalent value was received in transactions with the debtor. He also performs funds tracing analysis and other forensic accounting studies.

Robert is a certified public accountant (California), certified in financial forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and accredited in business valuation (CPA-ABV).

Nicole Drescher

Nicole Drescher is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 10 years of business and litigation consulting experience. She has assisted the named expert in forensic accounting and economic damages issues on numerous occasions.

Nicole has assisted counsel representing both plaintiffs and defendants in legal disputes in US state and federal courts, as well as in arbitrations in the United States and internationally. She is experienced in managing large project teams and has consulted on several matters with claimed damages in excess of US$500 million.

Nicole has provided consulting services on a variety of financial, economic, and accounting issues arising out of investigations, business disputes, and civil litigation. She has consulted on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and others across many different industries, including financial services, construction, aerospace, entertainment, insurance, manufacturing, financial institutions, and professional services.

Nicole has extensive experience involving lost revenue, lost profits, increased costs, delay and disruption, business valuation, financial condition analysis, and other economic damages issues. She has conducted funds tracing and other forensic accounting analyses, including the investigation and analysis of fraud allegations and reconstruction of accounting records.

Nicole is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. She graduated magna cum laude from Pomona College with a degree in mathematics and a minor in economics.

Michael J Wallace

Michael J Wallace has more than 35 years of financial, economic, accounting and damages experience. He has been appointed as an expert on more than a hundred cases.

Michael has testified as an expert in more than 25 trials and arbitrations and over 65 depositions on finance, accounting, and economic damages matters in US federal and state courts as well as international and domestic arbitrations. He has prepared and analysed hundreds of economic damages claims across a wide variety of industries and practice areas.

Michael has extensive consulting experience including analyzing the financial condition and performance of businesses through review of financial statements, public disclosures, accounting information, operational reports, and other business records. He has worked across a broad variety of practice areas including commercial litigation, construction, energy and regulated industries, entertainment and sports, financial institutions, government contracts, health care, asset management, intellectual property, and real estate.

Michael’s expertise includes lost profits, disgorgement, business valuation, false claims, breach of contract, intellectual property, contingent compensation, cost allocation, and statistical analyses. This includes providing formal and informal presentations to Department of Justice, Defense Contract Audit Agency, and Defense Criminal Investigative Service regarding defective pricing and false claims issues. He has extensive experience in the interpretation and application of financial and accounting principles and standards in regulatory and contractual settings.

Michael holds an MBA in finance and accounting and a degree in mechanical engineering and has delivered seminars regarding program and contract changes, and valuation, licensing and economic damages relating to trademarks. He is a non-lawyer member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California.

Julie Knox

Julie Knox is a forensic accountant and commercial damages consultant with more than 25 years of experience. She has been appointed as an expert on numerous occasions.

Julie has testified in cases before the United States Federal Court, California Superior Court and in domestic and international arbitrations. She has acted as an expert for disputes regarding commercial damages and valuation, intellectual property, and forensic accounting and investigations across financial, technology, sports and entertainment, and industrial sectors.

Julie has consulted on financial reporting matters and business operations and has conducted financial statement audits of companies and government agencies. She has performed forensic accounting analysis, funds tracing, and financial reporting analysis on behalf of companies, boards of directors, and special committees.

Julie provides analysis and expert opinion regarding lost profits, unjust enrichment, reasonable royalties, and restitution resulting from breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, anti-trust, unfair competition, intellectual property infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and other allegations.

Julie is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Certified Public Accountant (California and Virginia) and is Certified in Financial Forensics. She has presented to the AICPA, CalCPA, various university groups and law firms addressing accounting and economic damages issues, intellectual property valuation and damages, and ITC section 337 investigations.

Cheryl A LeeVan

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

Lexology Index – Projects and Procurement

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 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’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).

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.

Avram S Tucker

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 possesses a great depth of experience that is truly unparalleled. His unmatched level of experience enables him to contribute to the development of winning positions. He can answer questions from a judge or an arbitrator with elegance.

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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’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 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.

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.

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.

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