Damages Expert Witnesses in Illinois

This expert has over 25 years of experience in forensic accounting, focusing on the measurement of economic damages and litigation support. He received a BS in Business Administration and Accounting at Roosevelt University and is an active, certified Public Accountant, Global Management Accountant, Financial Forensic Specialist, and Fraud Examiner. This expert has experience across numerous industries including agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and healthcare. He has participated in numerous seminars involving the measurement of economic damages to the legal profession, insurance industry personnel, and the private sector. He has utilized his expertise in numerous legal proceeding including a matter in which he was hired to quantify damages in a product liability matter involving agricultural growing materials purchased by a cooperative of farmers. Such experience has made him proficient in the commercial agricultural operations, agricultural cooperatives, and other farm services. He is currently a Partner at an international forensic accounting firm.

This expert focuses on accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuation and investigations. He has experience in lost profits/earnings, business interruption claims, analysis of financial transactions and balances, Court-ordered accounting, bankruptcy, fraud examinations, investigations and the reconstruction of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified financial information. This expert provides consulting and litigation support services to trial lawyers, trustees, examiners, receivers, business owners and managers and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine financial analysis, economic damages determination, valuation issues, tracing procedures and/or other applications of financial forensics to assist in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes. He has more than 35 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations in diverse engagements and numerous industries, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. He has participated in public hearings and alternative dispute resolutions, submitted expert reports in several jurisdictions and testified in arbitration, regulatory proceedings and State, Federal and Bankruptcy Courts.

This highly qualified expert has provided valuation and corporate finance consulting services since 1987. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and he is a member of several prestigious associations including the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Society of Appraisers. He previously worked as the Senior Managing Director of American Appraisal Associates Inc where he was the Chair of Healthcare Industry Practice. Currently, this expert works as Managing Director in a global consulting firm in Illinois. He specializes in the valuation of a wide variety of businesses and business interests, fairness and solvency opinions, consulting with corporations with respect to corporate finance issues, and estimating economic damages. He has provided opinions of value, fairness, and solvency for many purposes such as acquisitions, divestitures, business and strategic plan reviews, business unit performance measurement, SEC filings, US GAAP and other financial reporting requirements, US federal, state, and non-US tax reporting requirements, regulatory compliance, various dispute resolution and litigation procedures and general advisory purposes. This expert has worked with clients across a wide variety of industries such as business and consumer services, construction, engineering and real estate development, construction materials, banking, financial institutions and insurance, healthcare services and managed care.