Lending Expert Witnesses in Vermont

This asset lending, commercial contracts, and finance attorney currently works for a leading global law firm in New York. He earned his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1982 and has been a financial attorney in New York for the past 30+ years. The expert spent over 22 years with Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, where he served as a Partner. He was also the Managing Partner of the New York office at SNR Denton for 2+ years. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was a member of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Housing and Urban Development. He currently represents financial institutions, funds, and similar entities in purchases and loan portfolio structuring and structured and conventional financing and warehousing, and in a wide variety of mortgage market transactions, and he has (entirely successfully) acted as an expert witness in a malpractice action against a major national law firm.

This banking and regulatory expert is currently a Partner in the New York Office of a global law firm. He has over 45 years of industry experience, including 30 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York serving as General Counsel, Chief Operating Officer and First Vice President. In that capacity, he served as an alternate member of the Federal Open Market Committee and as a staff member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets. The expert left the Fed in 1998 to become General Counsel at AIG, a position he held from 1998 until 2006. He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. from Cornell University Law School.

This expert has more than 25 years of real estate experience in domestic and international markets. She advises public and private companies, lenders, hedge funds and secured and unsecured creditors on complex real estate issues. Specific areas of professional expertise include dispute resolution, the valuation of loan and REIT portfolios, strategic planning for the acquisition and disposition of major real estate assets, the marketability and feasibility of large scale development and the allocation of purchase price resulting from corporate acquisitions and mergers. She also performs fair value analyses for loan portfolios in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards. She has advised clients on a variety of matters for the following property types: investment grade office complexes; regional shopping malls and power centers; corporate headquarters, distribution and manufacturing facilities for Fortune 500 companies; sports and entertainment complexes; hospitals, nursing homes and related health care facilities; medical and bio-technical research and laboratory complexes; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities; full service hotel and resort properties; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities. She serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and FINRA, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). She is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a global real estate professional organization. She also maintains the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). She has served on on the National Executive Committee of the Counselors of Real Estate and is on various professional boards including Adavanced Board of Real Estate Development (ABRED).

This expert specializes in structured finance, derivatives, securities and finance matters. His experience includes cash, synthetic and hybrid collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), asset-backed securities (ABS) of various types, structured investment vehicles (SIVs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), credit default swaps (CDS), interest rate swaps, credit-linked notes (CLNs), repurchase ("repo") agreements and securities fraud. As a transactional attorney he has been an Associate, Special Counsel or Partner at several of the leading transactional law firms in the United States, including Shearman & Sterling; Mayer, Brown & Platt; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. As an expert witness and/or consultant, he has worked with many of the leading litigation firms, and leading litigation departments of full-service firms, in the country, including Berger Montague; Chapman and Cutler; Kirby McInerney; Labaton Sucharow; Patterson Belknap; Robbins Geller; Scott + Scott; and Williams & Connolly.

This qualified expert of Electronic Signatures obtained her BA from Smith College. She is certified in Mortgage Standards and has 8+ Publications related to the field of Technology and Software. She is a member of the Property Records Industry Association, the Structured Document Technical Committee, and the ASTM Committee. She is currently the President of a Technology Company on the East Coast and a Consultant & Adviser at a Mortgage Technology Services.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in financial services, specializing in structured credit products, collateral and fund administration, complex derivatives, trustee and custodian roles and responsibilities, and securitization including CLO's, CDO's, and RMBSs. He received his BS in naval sciences at the Military Naval School in Lisbon before earning his bachelor's degree in management and business administration at the Universidade Lusíada. He subsequently completed a financial risk management certificate at New York University and earned his MS in finance and investments at City University London. This expert has formerly served as a junior consultant for PVA International, CDO risk analyst and CDO head of risk and compliance for Wilmington Trust Conduit Services, as well as the vice president of Wilmington Trust Conduit Services. Currently, this expert is an independent consultant for three financial consultancies.

This highly qualified financial services technology expert has over 35 years of professional experience. His expertise includes systems development, integration, infrastructure, information security and operations in the trading, investment, banking, and asset management businesses. He earned his BS in computer science from the City University of New York and is a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Georgetown University. He holds certifications as an information systems security professional and is a member of prestigious organizations such as the Hedge Fund Technology Group and the Project Management Institute. He has spoken at various financial IT conferences on key and emerging technologies, services, and issues with those in attendance. For the past 10 years, he has served as a board member of Wall Street Technology Association and currently is a special advisor. Formerly, he has served as the chief information officer at Caxton Associates LLC, and the chief technology officer at Harvard Management Co. and Annaly Capital Management. Currently, this expert is the chief information officer at a NY-based IT advisory and consulting firm.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience with parking access and revenue control systems. His work has focused on areas such as garage management, parking technology, lane devices, payment kiosks, management software, credit card payment devices, and the sales, installation, maintenance and repair of revenue control systems. This expert earned his BA in psychology from the University of Hartford before entering into the parking management industry. He has formerly served as the manager, city manager, and general manager of Metropolitan Parking System, the senior manager of Standard Parking/SP Plus, the vice president of business development at TCS International, the general manager and vice president of the northeast region for Amano McGann, and the vice president of operations for Park Assist. Most recently, this expert served as the chief executive officer of DESIGNA Access Corporation.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the finance industry, with his work focusing on ERISA, fiduciary duty, FINRA and suitability, retirement plans, financial technology, and wealth management. He earned his BS in economics with concentrations in international business and money, banking, and finance from the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is a chartered retirement planning coordinator and has previously held Series 7, 31, 63, and 65 licenses. He is active in his field as a frequently published author of finance articles. He has formerly served as a private banker at Bank Leumi USA, the director of the institutional brokerage group at Fidelity Investments/NFS, the vice president of personal financial services at Chase Bank, a financial advisor for global private clients for Merrill Lynch, vice president for JP Morgan Securities, and the vice president of Clark Dodge Asset Management. Currently, this expert serves as the managing member and project manager for a fiduciary consulting firm in New York.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of risk management and insurance and asset management. He earned his BA in the history of science and his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the Professional Risk Managers International Association, the Buy Side Risk Managers Group, the Investment Company Institute, and the Boston Security Analysts Society. In addition, this expert is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with over 10 publications. He formerly held many roles including portfolio manager of derivates & mortgage-backed securities at Allstate Life Insurance, head of derivative strategy and head of alternative investments at Putnam Investments, and board member of TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Company. This expert is currently a risk manager at a federal reserve bank in Massachusetts.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, and corporate valuation, with additional specialization in energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors. After earning his BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he went on to become an analyst in corporate finance at Wheat First Butcher Singer and then an associate in mergers and acquisitions at Rothschild Inc. Subsequently, this expert took on many leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions, including as vice president at Prudential Securities Inc., director at UBS Investment Bank, and managing director at RBC Capital Markets. He has also served as managing director of energy and natural resources at BNP Paribas and chief financial officer at ZaZa Energy Corporation. Currently, this expert is the founder and group head of an energy and infrastructure-focused banking firm based in New York and Texas.

This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in the ATM industry and the case payments industry. He earned a degree from Emory University. He is an active member and consultant of the ATM Industry Association, which is a global trade association with more than 10,000 members in 70 countries. He currently serves on the ATMIA’s United States Board Steering Committee and is also an active member of the Independent ATM Deployer (IAD) committee. He has been invited to speak on numerous occasions and has briefed the US Secret Service and FBI on financial crimes. He is also well published by the American Bankers Association, American Banker, Payment Systems Worldwide, and the ATM Industry Association. This expert is the founder and CEO of his own cash payment and ATM industry consulting firm that has been in business since 2002 based in Massachusetts.

This expert currently serves as Associate Professor of Economics at a university in New York and has been teaching economics for over 30 years. She received her B.A. in Sociology, her M.A., in Economics, and her Ph.D. in Economics. Her publications and presentations have focused on the topics of home mortgages and the foreclosure crisis. She previously worked at the New York State Banking Department (now the NYS Division of Financial Services) as Assistant Director of Banking Research and Acting Director of Financial Services Research. This included analyzing the performance of New York State banks as well as analyzing banking and mortgage trends.

This highly qualified financial expert has 30+ years of professional experience at leading firms. Currently he is a Prinicipal at R. G. Quintero & Co. and a Managing Director at Chartered Capital Advisers. Previously he, was an investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., an insolvency and restructuring advisor at Zolfo, Cooper & Co, and also started and ran the first valuation practice of KPMG. This expert has performed 1000+ valuations of business, financial instruments, intangible assets, and other assets and liabilities and he has testified as an expert witness on more than 60 occasions in courts throughout the U.S. He is a member several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Turnaround Management Association, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. This expert has numerous certifications. He has ten professional licenses including CPA and CFA. He earned his MS in Accountancy and an APC in Investment Management at New York University.