Litigation and Commercial Disputes

Our forensic accounting services include:

• commercial contract damages, including UCC analysis
• financial fraud, including white collar crime and Ponzi schemes
• analysis of damages mitigation
• lost profits analysis
• operations analysis including segment profitability
• product liability
• business valuation, including securities valuation
• cost analysis
• assessment of antitrust damages

Securities Litigation

We assisted counsel in many of the largest securities matters over the last 20-years:

• identifying false and/or misleading accounting practices
• identifying false and/or misleading disclosures in SEC filings
• evaluating scienter
• valuing potential securities claims
• segment profitability analysis
• interpreting income and expense recognition provisions of GAAP
• assessing the role of outside auditors, and identifying GAAS violations
• valuation of debt and equity securities
• offering expert testimony concerning GAAP and GAAS issues, and other financial matters including accounting malpractice

Bankruptcy and Debt Restructuring

We have assisted trustees, debtors and creditors with:

• assessing and implementing strategies for avoidance actions
• analysis of claims seeking equitable subordination
• director and officer investigations
• development of Plans of Reorganization
• asset valuation
• solvency analysis

Valuation

We have assisted entities with contract issues, asset management, technology transfers and business acquisitions/dissolutions. These matters require us to analyze value related to:

• intellectual property
• contract pricing
• operating facilities
• partnership interests

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

As CPA’s, we assist public companies with SOX compliance, in areas such as:

• SOX 302 – Financial Reports –Certifications
• SOX 401 – Disclosures in Periodic Reports
• SOX 404 – Management’s Assessment of Internal Controls
• SOX 409 – Real Time Disclosures
• SOX 802 – Criminal Penalties for Altering Documents