SEC Expert Witnesses in New Jersey

Since graduating from Northwestern Law School, this expert has worked as a corporate attorney for over 12 years. He has extensive experience advising as to SEC-registered and exempt transactions, including initial public offerings, common and preferred equity offerings and debt offerings. Additionally, he has worked in large, prestigious law firms such as Sidley Austin and also worked at the U.S. Treasury Department on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He currently is the founder of a law firm in New York City that specializes in offering corporate and securities law assistance to middle-market businesses and venture capital/private equity funds, frequently advising as to registration, disclosure, compliance and operational issues. The firm also prepares and negotiates a variety of contracts for its clients, from asset purchase agreements to non-disclosure agreements to real estate contracts of sale. He is an adjunct professor at a NJ Law School, where he teaches various corporate law-related courses, has had articles published in the ABA Business Law Today journal, and regularly teaches continuing legal education classes (CLE).

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 highly-skilled expert has nearly 15 years of experience in corporate bond trading, operations, and compliance. He holds a bachelor's in business administration from Temple University, is a certified scrum master, and is licensed in FINRA series 7, series, 63, and series 57. He started his career as an associate for emerging market fixed income sales at HSBC Global Banking and Markets, where he later became the vice president of emerging markets debt trading. He then went on to serve as a director at Investment Placement Group and as the vice president of emerging market debt trading at both Bank Leumi and Ramirez & Co. He is currently the co-founder of a finance technology company focused on equity purchasing.

This highly-qualified expert has 25 years of experience in the field of finance and securities. He received his BA in economics and philosophy from Elon College before earning his MA in economics from the New School for Social Research, where he also completed PhD-level coursework. This expert is a FINRA/Wharton certified regulatory and compliance professional and FINRA arbitrator, and holds a Series 65 securities license. He is active in his field as a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. He has formerly as an administrative assistant, financial consultant, and vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co., as well as the managing member of both Duval Asset Management and Heterodox Capital Partners. Currently, this expert is the CEO and CIO of an investment advisory firm in New York, as well as the managing partner of a securities litigation consultancy.

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 expert has over 20 years of experience in advising asset managers of all sizes and complexities across fund and investment adviser formation, securities, corporate, regulatory, fund marketing, fund operations, investor due diligence, compliance and best practices front to back office infrastructure including legal negotiations and operational set up with various trading counter-parties and service providers such as fund administrators, prime brokers. He received his B.S. and Master's Degrees at Pace University in addition to a J.D. from Quinnipiac University. His extensive experience in fund management includes working at both Nikko Alternative Asset Management and CooperNeff Advisors where he was part of the executive business management team and Chief Legal Officer with roles and responsibilities across multi-strategy platforms and the due diligence of managers and related service providers. He also co-founded Anchor Risk Advisors, a hedge fund trading in catastrophic weather linked fixed income instruments, where he managed enterprise matters including funds and managed accounts. He currently serves as Managing Partner for a legal and business development consulting firm for asset management firms.

This highly qualified expert has 25+ years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry developing and implementing tactics and strategies to optimize utilization of assets and maximize ROI. He has four years of consulting experience in E&P, with an emphasis on Natural Gas drilling costs and Enhanced Oil recovery and insights in Upstream oil trends. His has also experience on Wall Street with a boutique brokerage firm with exposure to securities, fixed income and alternative investment markets such as Master Limited Partnerships, REITs and Derivatives. He has extensive experience in Crude Oil, Refined products and Natural Gas value chains, pricing, risk mitigation, trading and economics. His technical skills lie in feed-stock selection, refinery production optimization, oil trading, pipeline scheduling and downstream asset management. His core business skills are honed in client relationships, business development, proposal writing and contract negotiations.