Financial Markets

With the growing docket of litigation matters involving purchasers and underwriters of troubled real estate assets and securities, and investment losses across a variety of market sectors, we are uniquely positioned to advise lawyers, investors, trustees and financial institutions on related litigation matters. With our powerful combination of seasoned litigation consulting experts, industry experts and renowned academics, leading law firms have continually turned to our professionals to advise on some of the most complex, high-dollar financial market disputes and regulatory investigations of the past decades. Our professionals include former large accounting firm partners, Chairmen of finance departments and former officials holding senior positions with the SEC, OCC and FRB.

Within the market, our expertise includes commercial and investment banking, savings and loans, hedge funds, mutual funds and exchanges. We have consulted or testified on a variety of financial market issues involving underwriting, trading, asset pricing, securitization, financing, credit, pricing risk, operating strategies and risk management. Leading lawyers have retained our consultants to advise both plaintiffs and defendants’ liability and damages theories including fraud on the market, market efficiency, impact of trades, impact of financial disclosures and deepening insolvency. We have expertise analyzing and mining large datasets and large volumes of documents involving complex transactions in futures, options, government securities, repurchase agreements, CMOs, CDOS and other structured products