Expert No. 166252 – CA(N)
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Expertise Description: Consulting expert in hedge fund strategies, securities selections, and portfolio management. Experience includes being the sole manager of large portfolio (over $800 million) of long / short publicly traded equities. Expertise includes the investigation, detection, and quantification of financial reporting fraud and asset misappropriations. Expertise also in options and hedged investments. Current adjunct professor teaching Portfolio Management, an advanced graduate investments course. Has presented and lectured for various seminars. Member, Global Association of Risk Professionals. Prior expert witness experience. Consultations and depositions.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
Business Valuation
Business Valuation
- Fund of Hedge Funds
- Hedge Fund
- Private businesses
- Publicly traded businesses
- top five international investment bank
- options were not allowed to be exercised according to the contractual agreement of publicly-traded company
- inappropriate expense allocation to fraudulently transfer assets
- accounting fraud or other misrepresentation for short selling
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Prepared valuation analysis for fund of hedge funds
- Prepared valuation analysis of long and/or short equity hedge fund
- Analyst for corporate merger and acquisition - prepared discounted cash flow-based valuation with / without synergies
- Executed transactions in public markets based on valuation analyses for hundreds of publicly-traded businesses
- Calculated damages for options arbitrage hedge fund due to miscalculation of margin calls by prime broker
- Calculated damages for loss of option value of warrants issued by publicly-traded company
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master | Business Administration | Harvard Business School | |
| Bachelor of Science | Engineering Physics | Bemidji State University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Ellis / LeBaron recipient
- Bar Association of San Francisco
- Global Association of Risk Professionals
- Gerson Lehrman Group Councils
- Silicon Valley Venture - Private Equity Capital Roundtable
Other Career Highlights:
| Published "Short Selling - A Primer," a series of articles |
| Published "Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and SunPower Corporation", teaching note |
| Published in Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Journal |
