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Skyscrapers and Sky
DAMAGES, FORENSICS, AND FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS
Practice Area

SEDA’s damages, forensics, and investigation practice is comprised of economists, certified accountants (CPAs), certified fraud examiners (CFEs), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Valuation Analyst, Certified in Financial Forensics, Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) among other.

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Our experts provide written expert reports and testimony on matters involving business valuation across various industries and business types, damages models, and theories such as lost profits, disgorgement of profits, full-price restitutions, and replacement costs, among other well-accepted damages methods. We have extensive experience developing rigorous damages models around trade secrets, unjust enrichment, breach of contract, misrepresentation, and manipulation.

Our experts specialize in criminal and civil financial fraud, Ponzi schemes, SEC and FINRA enforcement actions, commercial business damages, business valuations, federal income, estate and gift taxation, GAAP and related accounting issues, as well as bankruptcy matters.



EXPERTISE

  • Damages and Valuation

  • Forensic Accounting and Investigations

  • Complex Financial Fraud

  • Consumer Fraud and Product Liability

  • Tax Fraud and Disputes

  • Securities and financial products

  • Financial disclosures

  • Event studies

  • Competition and market structure

RELATED EXPERTS

Dr. Svetla Tzenova

Dr. Svetla Tzenova

Bio

Managing Director

Dr. Tzenova provides expert testimony and litigation consulting services on a broad spectrum of economic issues in the areas of commercial damages, business valuation, intellectual property, antitrust and competition strategy, and various issues at the intersection of business and government.

Former

NERA Economic Consulting - Senior Consultant in the Firm’s Antitrust and Intellectual Property Practices

Expertise

Commercial and Economic Damages, Business Valuation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Competition Strategy

Bruce G. Dubinsky

Bruce G. Dubinsky

Bio

Senior Advisor

Bruce G. Dubinsky is a world-class forensic accountant with over 40 years of financial investigative and dispute consulting experience and a nationally recognized expert in fraud investigations, forensic accounting, and dispute consulting.

Former

Kroll - Managing Director/Senior Advisor

Expertise

Fraud Investigations, Forensic Accounting, White Collar Criminal Fraud, Complex Tax Controversy, Bankruptcy Investigations, Damages/Suitability, Campaign Finance, Compliance/Investigations, Accounting/GAAP Disputes

Dave Douglass

Dave Douglass

Bio

Managing Director

Mr. Douglass provides advice in both litigation and business consulting matters requiring specialized financial and economic expertise. He has more than fifteen years of experience in business valuation, analysis of damages in securities litigation, valuation of intellectual property in trademark and patent disputes, loss causation analysis, solvency analysis, and regulatory compliance.

Former

Berkeley Research Group, LLC  - Director

Navigant - Associate Director

Expertise

Business Valuation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust & Competition Policy,  Disputes & Investigations,  Forensic Accounting,  Damages Analysis

Adam Werner

Adam Werner

Bio

Managing Director

Dr. Adam Werner has more than twenty-five years’ experience in litigation consulting, concentrating primarily on security class actions, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, shareholder derivatives and valuation cases. He has provided expert opinions and testified over 50 times in federal, state and bankruptcy courts within the United States.

Former

Crowninshield Financial Research - Expert Witness

Gnarus Advisors/Berkeley Economic Consulting - Director and Expert Witness


Expertise

Securities Class Actions, Damages Estimation, Market Efficiency, Loss Causation, Valuation, Cost of Capital

Matt Sekerke, Ph.D.

Matt Sekerke, Ph.D.

Bio

Managing Director

Matt Sekerke's consulting practice focuses on economic litigation, financial economics, mathematical modeling, and regulatory issues in financial services. He specializes in building and calibrating valuation models for financial instruments, designing market and credit risk management systems, conducting econometric analysis of complex data sets, and applying machine learning and AI in finance. His expertise also covers fixed income, derivatives, and structured finance markets.

Former

Hiddenite Capital Partners - Senior Macro Advisor

PwC - Director

Expertise

Securities Litigation, Complex Securities and Derivatives, Antitrust and Merger Analysis, Economic Damages, Commodity Markets

Caitlin Owen

Caitlin Owen

Bio

Director

Caitlin Owen has over 10 years of experience specializing in litigation support and forensic accounting services. Her professional experience includes financial analysis, forensic investigations, business valuations, economic damages, and post-acquisition disputes.

Former

Kroll - Senior Director

Expertise

Financial Analysis, Forensic investigations, Business Valuation, Economic Damages, Post-acquisition Disputes

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