Due Diligence Expert Witnesses
Due diligence expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on due diligence. The due diligence expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Accounting, Appraisal & Valuation, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business Operations, Civil Engineering, Dentist, Environmental, Financial, Fraud, Insurance, Premises Liability, Property Management, Real Estate, and Real Estate Appraiser.
Bob Bates, JD, CPA, CFO, CVA, CFE
Damages calculations, valuation, expert witness
Fremont, California
Accounting, Financial
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Business Litigation, Due diligence, Forensic accounting, Fraud investigations, Litigation support, Lost earnings, Valuation, CFO, CPA, Bankruptcy, Acquisitions
Bob Bates is a JD, CPA, CFE, CVA and CFO and has worked with dozens of lawyers on over 125 cases in various states. Sometimes he provides financial support for a client in litigation, or pre-litigation, and other times he provides a report, such as a damages calculation, which can be used in litigation. He also has experience providing testimony in depositions and trials.
Unbiased Case Analysis
Discovery Review & Recommendations
High-Impact Demonstrative Exhibits
Strategy and Tactics Conferences
Damage Calculations
Cash Flow Analysis Reports
Profit and Loss Analysis
Commercial damages, business interruption and lost profits
He has been involved in depositions/interrogatories and testifying with multiple court cases including:
Embezzlement-Discovered $300k fraud/consultant for counsel Massachusetts
Creditor-NY. $1.6m debentures, usury/breach
Creditor-NY. $1.7m debentures, usury/breach
Creditor-LA, CA $1.7m debentures
Creditor-Orange County, CA. $400k debentures
Creditor-Orange Cou...
Lyle D. Burgoon, PhD, ATS
Raptor Pharm & Tox, Ltd
California
Toxicology, Environmental
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Dram shop, DNA, Product Liability, Statistics, Drug Impairment, Chemical Impairment, Family Law, Due Diligence, Criminal, Civil, Drug Testing, Toxic Tort
Dr. Burgoon is an award-winning and Board Certified (Fellow, Academy of Toxicological Sciences) toxicologist and biostatistician. Dr. Burgoon has 10+ years of experience as a US Government toxicologist employed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the US Army. Dr. Burgoon served as a senior leader in various roles from leading teams of biostatisticians and bioinformaticians in designing and analyzing toxicology studies, to supervising toxicologists and public health scientists in the development of toxicological and dose-response assessments in support of the US EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). At the US Army, Dr. Burgoon led classified and unclassified programs and projects with a focus on the effects of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE) on human health, ecological and agriculture systems.
Dr. Burgoon’s expertise is in pharmacology, toxicology, biostatistics, exposure modeling, causal analysis, risk asse...
James H Cantrell, CPM, CAM
Cantrell Associates
San Francisco, California
Real Estate
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Property management, Broker, agent, apartment, commercial, HOA, Condominiums, office, slip/trip/fall, maintenance, water intrusion, mold, personal injury, security, management standard of care, due diligence, real estate property management, real estate disputes
Mr. Cantrell is currently active in day to day property management. He is a California Real Estate Broker, a Certified Property Manager (CPM) and a Condominium Association Manager (CAM) in the state of Florida. He is an expert in all aspects of Real Estate including Property Management of Residential, Commercial, Condominiums and Homeowners Associations, Shopping Centers.
Expert in Standards of Care, property damage, personal injury, habitability, landlord/tenant, maintenance, air quality and mold issues, receiverships, lease interpretation, partnership agreements, trust properties, child molestation.
An IREM instructor teaching throughout the US , Russia and Poland. Recipient 1987 Frank Lyons award-CPM of the year, CPM Emeritus 2011, President IREM San Francisco, IREM SF instructor of the year 2001, 2007 nd 2013 Lloyd Hanford Jr Distinguished Faculty award IREM.
Featured speaker National Facility Management and Technology Conference-Chicago 2007 and Baltimore 2008, 2009. C...
Mason A Dinehart III, RFC
FEND - Financial Education Network Development
San Ramon, California
Securities & Investments, Insurance
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Due Diligence, Suitability, Supervision, Standards of Care, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Variable and Fixed Index Annuities, TIC's, Non-Traded REIT'S, Broker Dealer Compliance, Portfolio Analysis, Private Placements, Elder Abuse, Damages, Misrepresentation, Material Omission and Fraud
I am celebrating 5 decades in the securities Industry. I am both a FINRA Arbitrator and the designated securities expert witness for the CA State Bar. I am a consulting expert in litigation and arbitration having testified in 25 states involving securities, insurance and annuities. Since 1991, I have been retained over 1000 times and have testified in 365 arbitrations before NASD, FINRA, JAMS, PSE, AAA and PSE along with attending and testifying in over 100 mediations. In addition, I have qualified and testified before the L.A. Federal Court along with State Courts in L.A., Orange, Fresno and San Diego. My case track record stands at 328 wins and 37 losses.
From a long-standing banking background in corporate finance to underwriting and investment banking and real estate experience, I bring a strong knowledge of modern portfolio theory through the teaching of hundreds of retirement financial planning seminars at the corporate level. It is my goal to bring a refres...
Lee J Harris, DDS
Harris Dental Solutions
Los Angeles, California
Dentist, Business Operations
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Dental Consulting, Due Diligence, Dental Practice Marketing, Dental Malpractice, Human Resources Management, Dental Practice Software, Dental Practice Management, Policies and Procedures, Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry, Dental Insurance, Key Performance Indicators, Dental Coach and Mentor
Gregory M. Libby, MBA
Libby Consulting, LLC
San Diego, California
Real Estate, Property Management
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commercial real estate, lease, REIT, real estate investment trust, triple net, NNN, retail, industrial, office, multifamily, asset management, property management, portfolio, leasing, CoStar, disaster, due diligence, construction, roof, pavement
Mr. Libby has had a 30-year career in commercial real estate and is currently the Principal of Libby Consullting, LLC. He has held senior leadership positions with Hughes Marino, Realty Income Corporation, Islands Restaurants, and Wall Street Property Company. Greg has experience with retail, industrial, office, and agricultural real estate. Mr. Libby is a licensed Real Estate Broker in California (DRE #011252760), holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Economics, and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA).
Greg is qualified to consult or serve as an expert witness on a wide variety of commercial real estate and facilities matters including but not limited to the REIT industry and practices, asset management, budgeting, capital expense planning/management, construction, corporate real estate, development/redevelopment, disaster planning and response, due diligence, facilities management, financial modeling, lease abstraction, lease administration, lease agreements, leasing, NNN ...
Linda Rae Paul
CRE Transaction Experts, Inc.
Sausalito, California
Real Estate, Fraud
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Commercial Title, Commercial Escrow, Title Insurance, Underwriting, Escrow Procedures, Fiduciary Duty, Escrow Documentation, Curative Work, Due Diligence, Multi-State Customs and Practices, Escrow Operations, Standard of Care
Linda Rae Paul is the President of CRE Transaction Experts, Inc. She works closely with all segments of the legal community to expeditiously perform escrow and title expert services in a professional manner and provide the most objective analysis in reports and testimony. Specialties include the following:
• Escrow and title industry standard practice
• Jurisdictional closing customs and practices
• Parties to an escrow and what role they play
• Escrow instructions – Southern California version
• Escrow instructions – Northern California version
• Escrow instructions – closing instructions from third parties
• Funds and escrow audits
• Funds from third parties
• Understanding and identifying escrow fraud events
• Payoffs – institutional and private
• Drafting of documents
• Fiduciary duties – escrow holder
• Fiduciary duties – title insurer
• Improper title clearance
• Standard of Care for title and escrow personnel
• Interpretation of real estate documents and forms
• Interpretati...
Max Holmes
Investor / Lawyer / NYU Stern Professor
Useful LLC
Greenwich, Connecticut
Appraisal & Valuation, Securities & Investments
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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...
James H Cantrell, CPM, CAM
Cantrell Associates
Florida
Real Estate
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Property management, Broker, agent, apartment, commercial, HOA, Condominiums, office, slip/trip/fall, maintenance, water intrusion, mold, personal injury, security, management standard of care, due diligence, real estate property management, real estate disputes
Mr. Cantrell is currently active in day to day property management. He is a California Real Estate Broker, a Certified Property Manager (CPM) and a Condominium Association Manager (CAM) in the state of Florida. He is an expert in all aspects of Real Estate including Property Management of Residential, Commercial, Condominiums and Homeowners Associations, Shopping Centers.
Expert in Standards of Care, property damage, personal injury, habitability, landlord/tenant, maintenance, air quality and mold issues, receiverships, lease interpretation, partnership agreements, trust properties, child molestation.
An IREM instructor teaching throughout the US , Russia and Poland. Recipient 1987 Frank Lyons award-CPM of the year, CPM Emeritus 2011, President IREM San Francisco, IREM SF instructor of the year 2001, 2007 nd 2013 Lloyd Hanford Jr Distinguished Faculty award IREM.
Featured speaker National Facility Management and Technology Conference-Chicago 2007 and Baltimore 2008, 2009. C...
Randy P Wall, PE, MPA
Wood Structural Engineering & Land Planning Expert
Professional Engineering Services
Boise, Idaho
Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering
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Right-of-Way, Grading & Drainage, Hillside Homes, Due Diligence, Inverse Condemnation, Construction Defects, Wood Engineering, High-end Homes, Eminent Domain, Residential Structural, Land Use & Zoning, Permitting & Entitlements, Road & Highway Design, Land Use Planning, Local Government, Forensics
Mr. Wall serves as an Expert Witness, Forensic Engineer, and Consulting Engineer for the Civil and Structural Engineering, Land Planning, and Construction industries. As a Professional Civil Engineer and Educator, Mr. Wall utilizes his experience to provide high quality professional consulting services. These services include forensic analysis and expert witness for the structural, site, grading, and drainage design and construction of high-end custom single-family residences located in lower elevations, hillsides, and snow countries; professional and premise liability; risk assessment and mitigation; Civil and Structural Engineering; professional liability claim assessments; forensic analysis for personal injury and property loss claims; construction due diligence, schedule impact, delay claims, and contracting; and litigation support and expert testimony. Mr. Wall has been the Owner and Principal of two Civil Engineering and Land Planning firms, an Education firm that provides pro...
Amy L. Natoli, CPM®, RPA®
Natoli Property Management Consulting
Crofton, Maryland
Premises Liability, Real Estate
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Property management, risk management, maintenance, property operations, insurance, slip and fall, facilities, premises liability, property damage, lease administration, facility management, due diligence, asset management, property inspections, standards of care
Amy Natoli is an award-winning Property Management expert with over twenty years of hands-on experience managing commercial real estate properties. She is experienced in standards of care, budgeting and asset management, lease administration, property inspections, parking garage maintenance and inspections, vendor and contract management, life safety systems compliance, and risk management.
She is active with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), serving nationally as a Governing Councillor and as Chairperson of the Instructor Advisory Council. At the local level, she is a Maryland Chapter Board of Directors member, Vice Chair of the Region 3 Education Committee, and an Ethics instructor.
Barclay T. Leib, CFE, CAIA
Sand Spring Advisors LLC
Morristown, New Jersey
Financial, Fraud
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Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, Trading Practices, Security Manipulation, Fiduciary Duty, Due Diligence, Forensic Audit, CFE, CAIA, Options, Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals
Barclay Leib, CFE, CAIA is an accomplished alternative asset due diligence professional who has been conducting due diligence and asset allocation on a variety of alternative investments (hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, alternative direct lending) for the majority of the past 20 years. He previously was a senior derivatives trader at firms including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Bank, and Societe Generale for the first 20-years of his career. He also ran Alternatives Research for Fortigent LLC ($70 bln of assets advised) for two years.
Mr. Leib has testified in both AAA arbitration and in Court cases in matters related to hedge funds, due diligence, fiduciary duty, and market manipulation. He has also assisted the SEC, CFTC, SDNY, and FBI, as well as several law firms, in various financial investigations that have resulted in successful criminal prosecutions.
Mr. Leib holds an active FINRA Series 65 license, as well as currently inactive Series 7 & 63 license...
Barclay T. Leib, CFE, CAIA
Sand Spring Advisors LLC
New York
Financial, Fraud
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Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, Trading Practices, Security Manipulation, Fiduciary Duty, Due Diligence, Forensic Audit, CFE, CAIA, Options, Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals
Barclay Leib, CFE, CAIA is an accomplished alternative asset due diligence professional who has been conducting due diligence and asset allocation on a variety of alternative investments (hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, alternative direct lending) for the majority of the past 20 years. He previously was a senior derivatives trader at firms including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Bank, and Societe Generale for the first 20-years of his career. He also ran Alternatives Research for Fortigent LLC ($70 bln of assets advised) for two years.
Mr. Leib has testified in both AAA arbitration and in Court cases in matters related to hedge funds, due diligence, fiduciary duty, and market manipulation. He has also assisted the SEC, CFTC, SDNY, and FBI, as well as several law firms, in various financial investigations that have resulted in successful criminal prosecutions.
Mr. Leib holds an active FINRA Series 65 license, as well as currently inactive Series 7 & 63 license...
Scott R. Burger, MD
Cell therapy and gene therapy expert
Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Regenerative Medicine
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cell therapy, gene therapy, stem cell therapy, immunotherapy, regulatory, FDA, due diligence, HCT/P, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Good Tissue Practices (GTPs), viral vectors, T cells, CAR-T cells, NK cells, stem cells, autologous cell therapy, allogeneic cell therapy
Dr. Burger has 30 years of experience developing cell therapy and gene therapy products for immunotherapy and regenerative medicine. Since 2002 he has been a full-time consultant on development, GMP manufacturing, regulatory, and strategic aspects of cell and gene therapy. He has served over 180 companies, from biotech startups to Big Pharma, in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, consulting on cell and gene therapies from preclinical development through Phase I/II/III, and commercialization.
Dr. Burger has been an expert witness in cases involving cell and gene therapy intellectual property, commercialization, FDA regulatory affairs, and GMP compliance. He is frequently an invited speaker at international conferences and has served on the USP Cell, Gene and Tissue Therapies Expert Committee, the ISCT advisory board and ISCT committees on gene therapy, regulatory affairs, commercialization, and product/process development. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Sc...
Lyle D. Burgoon, PhD, ATS
Raptor Pharm & Tox, Ltd
New Hill, North Carolina
Toxicology, Environmental
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Dram shop, DNA, Product Liability, Statistics, Drug Impairment, Chemical Impairment, Family Law, Due Diligence, Criminal, Civil, Drug Testing, Toxic Tort
Dr. Burgoon is an award-winning and Board Certified (Fellow, Academy of Toxicological Sciences) toxicologist and biostatistician. Dr. Burgoon has 10+ years of experience as a US Government toxicologist employed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the US Army. Dr. Burgoon served as a senior leader in various roles from leading teams of biostatisticians and bioinformaticians in designing and analyzing toxicology studies, to supervising toxicologists and public health scientists in the development of toxicological and dose-response assessments in support of the US EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). At the US Army, Dr. Burgoon led classified and unclassified programs and projects with a focus on the effects of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives (CBRNE) on human health, ecological and agriculture systems.
Dr. Burgoon’s expertise is in pharmacology, toxicology, biostatistics, exposure modeling, causal analysis, risk asse...
Jason Koontz, CRC
JD Koontz, LLC
YORK, South Carolina
Banking, Real Estate
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commercial loans, residential mortgages, mortgage loan servicing, predatory lending, truth in lending, RESPA, debt collection, underwriting, consumer protection, USPAP compliance, appraisal review, lending operations, foreclosures, disclosure, due diligence, lender liability, risk
Former Senior Vice President with over 20 years of lending, cash management, and bank operations experience. Vast hands-on experience in bank lending practices, deposit accounts, and matters involving residential real estate and mortgage loan servicing. Certified Residential Appraiser. Certified in credit risk.
Extensive, coast-to-coast, experience as an expert witness (retained in more than 230 matters). Expert witness engagements have involved commercial loans, residential mortgages, predatory lending, debt collection, underwriting, consumer protection, fraud, truth in lending, lender liability, mortgage loan servicing, deposit accounts, residential property valuation, and USPAP compliance. Clients include individuals, small business owners, mortgage loan servicers, and some of the largest lenders in the US. Experienced in both state and federal cases (including class actions). Extensive testifying experience at deposition and trial.
Stark Langs
Realty Capital Solutions, LLC
Dallas, Texas
Bankruptcy, Real Estate
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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, ...
Jared L Booth, SIOR, CCIM, MBA
Colliers
Salt Lake City, Utah
Real Estate, Real Estate Appraiser
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Real Estate Brokerage, Commercial, Development, Fiduciary Duties, Ethics, Valuation, 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange, Leasing, Acquisitions, Dispositions, Office, Industrial, Warehouse, Retail, Multifamily, Land, Investments, Residential, Due Diligence, Disclosure
Experienced Real Estate Broker:
29+ Years in Real Estate
22+ Years in Commercial Real Estate
Certifications:
Dual Specialist in Industrial & Office (SIOR)
Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)
Awards:
Top Producing Active Transactional Commercial Broker (top 5%) in Nationally Ranked Office of Global/International Firm
Commercial Realtor of the Year, CCIM of the Year, Distinguished Service Award, Platinum & Hall of Fame Honors, Presidents & Circle of Distinction
Proficiency:
Office - Industrial/Distribution/Warehouse - Multifamily - Retail - Investments - Land - Residential/Residential Development - Leasing & Sales Transactions
Key Specializations:
-Tenant & Landlord Leasing Representation
-Sales, Purchase, Acquisition & Disposition Services
-Ethical Practices & Fiduciary Duties
-Valuations, Broker Price Opinion & Broker Opinion of Value
-Due Diligence, Disclosures
-Property Marketing & Advertising
-Investment Analysis
-Negotiations, Advisory, Corporate & Consulting S...
