Investment Management Expert Witnesses

Corona del Mar, California

Financial, Securities & Investments - Investment Management, Bond Trading, Private Credit, Emerging Market Debt, High Yield Bonds, CLOs, Hedge Funds, Closed-End Funds, Fund NAV, Credit Derivatives/CDS, Benchmarks, Prospectus Disclosure, Bond Defaults / Restructurings, GIPS, Bank Loans, Structured Products, 144a/Reg S, Bond Pricing, Investment Composites, Investment Strategy

David Hinman, CFA has 27 years of finance experience and 23 years of fixed income asset management experience, including 10 years at PIMCO. In his career, he has managed CLOs, hedge funds, and closed- and open-ended mutual funds. His expertise includes analyzing, trading, and managing portfolios of credit derivatives, investment grade and high yield corporate bonds, bank loans, emerging market debt (EMD), and structured credit. As an investor, he has also participated in numerous corporate bankruptcies and debt restructurings and served on creditor workout committees. He co-founded and sold a SEC registered investment advisor, which focused on investing in EMD, where he served as Chief Investment Officer. He has expertise regarding hedge and mutual fund disclosures, documentation, and regulations. He has detailed familiarity with bond offering documents, typical disclosures, as well as bond investor expectations regarding information provided by both issuers and underwriters. ...

Riverside, Connecticut

Securities & Investments, Technology - Private Equity, Private Credit, Investment Management, Fund NAV, CLOs, Bank Debt , High Yield Bonds, Hedge Funds, Restructurings, Bankruptcies, Business Valuations, Securities Valuations, Fraud, Securities Disclosure, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Data Centers, Data & Analytics, M&A, Capital Markets

Mr. Scott is a former partner at Apollo one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms and is a recognized expert in private equity, private credit, bankruptcies, valuations and corporate turnarounds. He has invested in scores of private equity and private credit situations. Having served as a partner and senior executive at some of the world's leading alternative investment firms, Mr. Scott is intimately familiar with all aspects of securities and corporate valuations as well as conflicts including NAV. Today, he frequently serves as a board member, consultant and expert witness. Mr. Scott has over 25 years of experience as both an investor and C-suite turnaround executive with deep expertise in Ai, computer vision, data centers and software. Mr. Scott was a founder of InterXion N.V. (Europe's largest data center business with over 50 facilities the globe) and a founding investor/board member of publicly traded Akamai - the US' largest edge compute platform serving ...

Greenwich, Connecticut

Business Valuation, Securities & Investments - Antitrust, Arbitration, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business Damages, Business Valuation, Contract Disputes, Cryptocurrency, Due Diligence, Fiduciary Duty, Financial, Fraud, Hedge Funds, Insurance, Investment Banking, Investment Management, Lending, Leveraged Buyouts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

Max Holmes has over 40 years of experience as a portfolio manager, research analyst, board member, lawyer, NYU Professor and expert witness. Since 1993, Max Holmes has been an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University, teaching "Bankruptcy and Reorganization." Max Holmes has been the Chief Investment Officer / Lead Portfolio Manager for two large hedge funds ($2.7 billion and $5.4 billion of peak AUM) as well as an insurance company portfolio and a mutual fund portfolio. The funds invested in credit, capital structure arbitrage, distressed debt, rescue finance, direct lending, specialty finance, event stocks and special situations securities, including long and short positions. The funds invested across the capital structure: bank debt, DIP loans, second lien debt, secured and unsecured bonds, floating rate and fixed rate notes, trade claims, preferred stock, common stock, put and call options and credit default swaps (CDS). In...

Boston, Massachusetts

Banking, Real Estate - investment management, fund raising, initial public offering (IPO), mortgage brokerage fee, interest, partnership, investment underwriting, loan sale, loan participation / syndication, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), real estate workout, general partner (GP) duty, commercial (C&I) loan, private lender, private equity, FDIC

Dan Mee is President of Dillon Capital Advisors, a private consulting, investment and advisory firm. Here he is active advising companies on strategic planning, capital allocation and capital raises. Dillon has provided clear strategic advice on conventional debt and equity raises. Current and recent assignments include expert witness testimony, loan sale advisory, deploying blockchain technology to effect the tokenization of real assets in addition to financing opportunities in cannabis related businesses. Mr. Mee is an active expert witness providing testimony on real estate interest rates, loan sales, partnership structures and other real estate and capital markets related topics. Mr. Mee has extensive experience in litigation from his years in real estate and loan workout. Mr. Mee is a Board Director and Trustee at Cambridge Financial Group (CFG). A bank holding company with about $6.5 billion in assets. CFG major subsidiaries include a 190+ year old mutual commercial bank and...

New York

Financial, Securities & Investments - Investment Management, Bond Trading, Private Credit, Emerging Market Debt, High Yield Bonds, CLOs, Hedge Funds, Closed-End Funds, Fund NAV, Credit Derivatives/CDS, Benchmarks, Prospectus Disclosure, Bond Defaults / Restructurings, GIPS, Bank Loans, Structured Products, 144a/Reg S, Bond Pricing, Investment Composites, Investment Strategy

David Hinman, CFA has 27 years of finance experience and 23 years of fixed income asset management experience, including 10 years at PIMCO. In his career, he has managed CLOs, hedge funds, and closed- and open-ended mutual funds. His expertise includes analyzing, trading, and managing portfolios of credit derivatives, investment grade and high yield corporate bonds, bank loans, emerging market debt (EMD), and structured credit. As an investor, he has also participated in numerous corporate bankruptcies and debt restructurings and served on creditor workout committees. He co-founded and sold a SEC registered investment advisor, which focused on investing in EMD, where he served as Chief Investment Officer. He has expertise regarding hedge and mutual fund disclosures, documentation, and regulations. He has detailed familiarity with bond offering documents, typical disclosures, as well as bond investor expectations regarding information provided by both issuers and underwriters. ...

New York

Business Valuation, Securities & Investments - Antitrust, Arbitration, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business Damages, Business Valuation, Contract Disputes, Cryptocurrency, Due Diligence, Fiduciary Duty, Financial, Fraud, Hedge Funds, Insurance, Investment Banking, Investment Management, Lending, Leveraged Buyouts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity

Max Holmes has over 40 years of experience as a portfolio manager, research analyst, board member, lawyer, NYU Professor and expert witness. Since 1993, Max Holmes has been an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University, teaching "Bankruptcy and Reorganization." Max Holmes has been the Chief Investment Officer / Lead Portfolio Manager for two large hedge funds ($2.7 billion and $5.4 billion of peak AUM) as well as an insurance company portfolio and a mutual fund portfolio. The funds invested in credit, capital structure arbitrage, distressed debt, rescue finance, direct lending, specialty finance, event stocks and special situations securities, including long and short positions. The funds invested across the capital structure: bank debt, DIP loans, second lien debt, secured and unsecured bonds, floating rate and fixed rate notes, trade claims, preferred stock, common stock, put and call options and credit default swaps (CDS). In...