Futures Expert Witnesses

Huntsville, Alabama

Securities & Investments, Financial - Hedging - risk management, Quantitative Modeling of Damages, Futures, Annnuities, Trade Cost Analysis - Best Execution, Fiduciary Duties of RIA, Asset Allocation, Alternative Investments, Damages - portfolio liquidation, Portfolio Margin, Hedge Funds, Leveraged ETFs, Volatility Products and Strategies, Options, Commodities

Lester Brol, CFA Expert Witness in Securities, Commodities, and Investment Management Litigation Lester Brol is a seasoned investment professional with over 41 years of hands-on experience in portfolio management, risk assessment, quantitative trading, and institutional consulting. Specializing in securities and commodities disputes, he provides expert testimony on topics including damages modeling, best execution practices, asset allocation strategies, hedging, options and futures, fiduciary duties, and performance evaluation. His insights have supported litigation involving pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and high-net-worth individuals, helping attorneys uncover damages relating to investment strategies, margin and trading. Mr. Brol launched his career at The Northern Trust Company in Chicago, IL., as a Portfolio Manager and Vice President in the Trust Investment Department. There, he advised clients on asset allocation, portfolio restructuring, and risk management, whi...

Lakeland, Florida

Securities & Investments, Financial - Derivatives, Swaps, Futures, ISDA/SIFMA/NAESB Documentation, UCC Article 8, Foreign Currency, Financial Products, Municipal Bonds, Hedge Funds, Securitization, CFTC and SEC Compliance, LIBOR/SOFR transition issues, Secured Transactions, Commodity Finance, Agricultural Hedging, Unauthorized Trading, Churning, Howey Test

James Lovely provides expert witness, litigation support, and consulting services concerning all types of derivatives and other capital markets products. His expertise encompasses both academic training and extensive legal and financial work experience involving the regulation, structuring, hedging, documentation, execution, management and termination of financial products, including futures, options, swaps, derivatives, and bonds, ISDA, NAESB and SIFMA documentation, repurchase agreements, liquidity facilities, structured financial products, commercial paper programs, securitizations, commodity financing, and prime brokerage arrangements. He also advises clients on LIBOR/SOFR transition issues. He is experienced with the U.C.C., including particularly Article 8 of the UCC related to securities and financial asset transfers and Article 9 related to secured transactions.

Thornhill, Ontario

Securities & Investments, Banking - Foreign Exchange, Interest Rate Derivatives, Futures, FX Options, Algorithmic Trading, Electronic Trading, Market Making, Emerging Markets, NDFs, Compliance, Forwards/Swaps, Cross Currency Basis, Market Liquidity, Macro Trading, Treasury Portfolio, FX hedging, Economic insights, Best Execution Practices

Mohammad H. Ali, CFA is a seasoned capital markets professional with 26 years of trading and consulting experience in the banking space. His particular area of product expertise includes foreign exchange and interest rate trading products. Mohammad has implemented compliance controls, managed global teams, spearhead enhancement of documents such as the FX Global Code of Conduct and led major electronic trading transformations within the currency and swaps trading space. Mr. Ali spent the majority of his career within the securities division of Toronto Dominion Bank leaving the firm in 2020 as Managing Director and Global Head of Foreign Exchange trading where he oversaw a team of 25 traders+quant analysts, executed Billion dollar+ Cross Currency FX M&A transactions and executed a major re-haul of TD Bank’s Global EFX trading platform. Mohammad also brings with him extensive proprietary trading experience in the macro-space across developed and emerging markets. More recently, Moh...