Finance Expert Witnesses

Atlanta, Georgia

Business Damages, Technology - Economics, Econometrics, Data, Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software, Cloud Computing, Data Science, Survey Research, Digital Advertising, Finance, Banking, Healthcare, Antitrust, Class Action, Class Certification, Contractual Disputes, Cybersecurity

Dr. Joe Sutherland is the founding director of Emory's Center for AI Learning, a professor in Emory’s Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods, associate faculty at the Empathetic AI for Health Institute at Emory Healthcare, principal investigator of the Emory branch of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, and fellow of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Public Policy, and Government at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been featured on FOX 5 Good Day Atlanta, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Forbes, Georgia Trend, Government Technology, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other venues. His professional background includes leadership service at The White House, Cisco, Amazon, and as CEO of an AI startup. His research exploring the utilization of machine learning and AI in congressional lawmaking, state policy leadership, and development economics is published in top peer-reviewed journals. He holds patents for systems that manage and analyze petabyte-level da...

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

Business Operations, Business Valuation - Bankruptcy, Restructuring, Valuation, Distress, Turnaround Management, Crisis Management, Corporate Governance & Boards, Banking/Lending, Finance, Investment Banking, Business Practices, Fraud, Risk Management, M&A

Howard Brownstein is a nationally-known turnaround and crisis management professional, and is the President of The Brownstein Corporation, which provides turnaround management and advisory services to companies and their stakeholders, as well as investment banking services, fiduciary services, and litigation consulting, investigations and valuation services. He has extensive experience in valuing businesses, obtaining financing, and selling businesses. He serves as Financial Advisor to Debtors, lenders and Creditor Committees in bankruptcy proceedings, and as a litigation expert in several cases including the landmark Merry-Go-Round bankruptcy. Mr. Brownstein served as Chief Restructuring Officer in U.S. Mortgage, a $138 million mortgage fraud, and as Plan Administrator in Montgomery Ward LLC, the largest retail liquidation in history. Mr. Brownstein has been involved in the above activities for over 30 years. Mr. Brownstein regularly serves as an independent corporate board ...

Dallas, Texas

Bankruptcy, Real Estate - Bankruptcy Plan Feasibility, Appropriate Interest Rate, Damages, Commercial Real Estate Loan Underwriting, Real Estate Acquisitions, CMBS, Loans, Representations and warranties, Due diligence, Finance, Real Estate

I am an expert in commercial real estate finance with over 35 years of experience in the industry. I have worked in commercial real estate consulting, loan underwriting and acquisitions. I have underwritten in excess of $3 billion in commercial real estate loans and potential acquisitions. I have been retained as an expert on commercial real estate finance cases involving bankruptcy plan feasibility and appropriate interest rate, damages, loan underwriting, acquisitions and CMBS. In the past 4 years I have testified: - as a damages rebuttal expert at deposition and at a confidential Arbitration Hearing. Case involved alleged breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract with respect to an office building; - as a bankruptcy plan feasibility and appropriate interest rate expert at deposition. Case settled at the Confirmation Hearing. Collateral was an apartment property; - as a real estate finance expert at deposition. Case involved an allegedly fraudulent investment fund, ...