Management Agreements Expert Witnesses

Del Mar, California

Real Estate, Hotel & Restaurant - Finance, Brokerage, real estate investment, Capital stack, Hospitality, Forensic accounting, lost profits, partnership disputes, Economic damages, Real estate development, diminution of value, bankruptcy, Financial analysis, Asset Management, Waterfall, C.P.A., Standard of care, Operations, Management agreements, Valuation

Fred Schuster is a real estate finance, development, and hospitality industry expert with more than 30 years of experience and over 15 years serving as an expert witness and litigation consultant in complex real estate disputes. Through FGS Realty Advisors, Mr. Schuster provides expert witness and litigation support services to law firms, ownership groups, investors, lenders, and other stakeholders involved in sophisticated real estate, hospitality, finance, and operational matters. Fred is a licensed CPA and California Real Estate Broker. Mr. Schuster’s experience combines senior executive leadership, institutional real estate finance expertise, development oversight, asset management, brokerage operations, and forensic financial analysis. His background allows him to provide practical, well-supported opinions grounded in real-world industry experience across the full lifecycle of real estate assets and investments. Mr. Schuster has been engaged in matters involving: Financial ...

Greenwich, Connecticut

Hotel & Restaurant, Hotel & Restaurant - hotel operations, lost profits, business interruption damages, personal injury, wrongful death, standard of care, asset management, management agreements, franchising, premises liability, hotel real estate, sexual assault, development, hotel finance

Kenneth Free, Straightline’s Principal, can oftentimes be an excellent hospitality expert witness. Over the years he has served as an expert witness before judicial bodies in about two-thirds of the 50-states of the USA, as well as in many U.S. Federal Courts. He has also been engaged as an expert in Canada, France, Egypt, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and British West Indies. While typically appearing before civil courts of the state, he has also served in cases before bodies of arbitration, U.S. Federal Administrative courts, U.S. Bankruptcy courts, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (a World Bank entity), and a Native American Tribal Court. Mr. Free can be a solid expert witness for hotel disputes because of his deep real world experience working in the hotel industry, his academic credentials, and his demeanor of credibility. Mr. Free is a true expert in hotels, resorts and related hospitality businesses. Prior to establish...