He's a bankruptcy and restructuring attorney provides expert witness services with more than 40 years of experience in national and international insolvency matters, including experience in consultation, deposition, and trial testimony. This expert’s work addresses complex financial distress scenarios, offering analysis related to insolvency proceedings, restructuring strategies, and evaluation of distressed transactions across a wide range of industries and financial structures.

Their experience includes distressed mergers and acquisitions, debtor-in-possession and exit financing, and the intersection of intellectual property and bankruptcy, particularly in technology-driven insolvency matters. Additional areas of focus include cross-border insolvency proceedings, failing hedge funds, financial institution and insurance insolvency, municipal and sovereign insolvency, and complex structured finance and derivatives. Work in distressed energy, utility, and real estate matters, as well as failed leveraged buyouts, further supports evaluation of creditor rights, counterparty risk, and restructuring outcomes in disputed matters. Their current activities include select engagements involving restructuring advisory, independent director responsibilities, bankruptcy examiner work, and participation with creditor and other committees, reflecting continued involvement in complex restructuring and insolvency-related matters.

The expert has contributed to the field through authorship and lectures for organizations such as the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Insolvency Institute, the Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association, and the State Bar of California, including work addressing intellectual property considerations in restructuring and workouts.

This expert holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Arts and is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in California.