Economic Damages
In today’s fast-moving business landscape, quantifying economic damages demands clarity, credibility, and strategic insight. HKA’s experts deliver all three.
Whether you’re navigating a complex dispute or preparing for litigation, our experts deliver robust, defensible loss quantification and economic damages analysis.
Our Expertise in Economic Damages
Our teams have conducted thousands of forensic accounting, economic, financial, valuation, statistical, and operational studies to assess liability, causation, and damages across litigation, arbitration, regulatory investigations, and mediation.
We apply rigorous methodologies to quantify financial loss and assess economic damages across a wide range of scenarios, including:
Financial & Operational Analysis
- Evaluating financial condition, business operations, and market dynamics
- Analyzing the causes and timing of loss, insolvency or bankruptcy
- Reviewing the application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP or IFRS), including financial statement presentation and disclosure
Contractual & Market Assessments
- Assessing compliance with contractual terms and conditions across licensing, distribution, manufacturing, marketing, and government contracting
- Antitrust analysis to assess market dynamics and competitive harm
- Assessing breach of contract claims, disputes between suppliers and customers, and investor–state claims involving commercial and regulatory obligations.
Valuation & IP
- Valuations of businesses and stakeholder interests
- Valuations of intangible assets and intellectual property, and developing accounts of intellectual property infringer’s profits
- Valuations in post-acquisition disputes, shareholder and joint venture disagreements, and business interruption claims.
Damage Quantification
- Preparing and analyzing damage claims related to increased costs, lost profits, business interruption, professional malpractice or negligence, and diminution in business value.
Why HKA
HKA’s economic damages experts have a proven track record in high-stakes disputes.
We go beyond traditional forensic accounting, valuation, or economic modelling. Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in economics, finance and valuation, accounting, intellectual property, data analytics, deployment of advanced technology and industry-specific disciplines to capture the full financial and operational impact of disputes – from lost profits, wasted costs, and diminution in value, to consequential damages and lost investment opportunities.
Our experts:
- Prepare or rebut economic damages claims with precision and strategic insight
- Clarify the strengths and weaknesses of claims and defences
- Apply advanced analytical techniques, including financial and econometric modelling and forecasting, statistical sampling, and big data analytics
- Work with fragmented and complex datasets to extract meaningful insights
- Identify opportunities to mitigate financial impact
- Produce expert reports that are clear, concise, and persuasive
- Support mediation and settlement negotiations
- Deliver authoritative expert witness testimony
Recognized for our independence and integrity, HKA has successfully supported clients across all industry sectors including financial services, aviation, energy, industrials, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology.
HKA is consistently ranked among the top expert firms in the Lexology Index and Global Arbitration Review’s Power Index.
How we can help you
HKA offers access to a global network of specialists in economic damages and complementary disciplines, delivering tailored support to meet the diverse needs of our clients. We can apply advanced methodologies tailored to each case.
We support clients in a wide range of disputes, including breach of contract, investor–state arbitration, supplier–customer disagreements, post-acquisition valuation disputes, shareholder and joint venture conflicts, business interruption claims, and professional malpractice or negligence matters.
We work closely with legal teams, corporations, and institutions to build a clear understanding of each case’s commercial and operational context – presenting conclusions that are both credible and compelling.
Our teams include certified public and chartered accountants, accredited valuation analysts, chartered financial analysts, economists, data scientists, and technical experts with deep experience across jurisdictions. Whether deploying a single expert or assembling a multi-disciplinary or multi-national team, we scale our support to match the complexity and size of each matter.
We integrate expertise across:
- Commercial damages
- Financial and econometric modelling
- Data analytics and statistical sampling
- Accounting and economics
- Valuation of businesses and assets
- Intellectual property and infringement analysis
- Sector-specific disciplines – including aviation, aerospace and defense, consumer products, construction, cryptocurrency, energy, government contracts, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, financial services, media, telecoms and technology (TMT), real estate and tourism, power & utilities and sports & entertainment.
This cohesive approach ensures our clients benefit from a unified, defensible analysis that supports resolution and informs decision-making.
