Banking Expert Witnesses
Banking 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 banking. The banking expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Accounting, Banking, Business Damages, Business Valuation, Cryptocurrency, Financial, Fraud, Pain Management - Medicine, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Real Estate, Securities & Investments, Technology, and Trusts & Estates.
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Ross Mallioux
Banking Expert Witness|Lending & Bank Operations
Ross Mallioux Expert Witness LLC
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Banking, Fraud
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Mortgage, Lender Liability, Loan Servicing, Documentation, Commercial, Consumer, Banking operations, Banking practices, Banking standards, Compliance, AML BSA TRID RESPA TILA, Underwriting, Internal Controls & Wire, Standard of Care, Bank Fraud Witnesses, Elder Financial, Bank Litigation, Bank Expert Witness, Banking Expert Witness
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Independent expert witness and former senior banking executive with more than 40 years of
progressive executive responsibility in community and regional financial institutions. Career roles
include Chief Lending Officer, Division President, Market President, Senior Vice President, and Director
of Mortgage Lending, with institution-wide responsibility for retail banking and deposit operations,
residential mortgage lending, commercial and consumer lending, credit administration, internal controls,
regulatory compliance, and fraud prevention.
Executive oversight has encompassed the full range of operational, lending, and consumer-facing
functions through which deposits, payments, and funds movement are conducted in a community and
regional banking environment. Direct involvement in federal regulatory examinations, in litigation
as a designated bank representative, and in the disposition of foreclosed and bank-owned assets.
Engaged by retaining counsel ...
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Douglas B. Twillman, CFO, CFA, MBA, BS-ME
Commercial Real Estate Expert (Witness) Services
Mill Valley, California
Real Estate, Financial
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Financial Planning & Analysis, Underwriting, Due Diligence, Capital Markets, Structured Finance, Syndication, Banking, CMBS Loan, Asset Mgmt, Shopping Center, Mixed Use, Standard of Care, Landlord/Tenant, Investor Relations, Distressed Assets, Receivership, Forensic Accounting, Economic Damage, Lic. CA Broker, Family Law
I provide Commercial Real Estate and Family Law Expert Services with extensive hands-on experience as a real estate investor, asset manager, and fractional Chief Financial Officer. My expertise is grounded in real-world ownership and operations—not theoretical or purely academic analysis—allowing me to deliver clear, supportable opinions that withstand scrutiny in litigation, arbitration, and mediation.
My commercial real estate experience spans the full investment lifecycle, including opportunity identification, financial underwriting, valuation, due diligence, capital structuring, debt and equity placement, contract negotiation, leasing strategy, property and asset management, investor reporting, and disposition analysis. I have direct experience evaluating investment performance, cash flow, capital expenditures, operating budgets, and long-term value creation across multiple asset classes.
I specialize in complex financial analysis related to commercial real estate disputes, in...
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JON-ERIC KRONVALL
Fiduciary, Trust/Estate & RIA Broker-Dealer Expert
Esoteric Advisors
San Luis Obispo, California
Trusts & Estates, Securities & Investments
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Trust & Estate Litigation, Trust Disputes, Trustee Executor Conduct, Fiduciary Breach, RIA Broker-Dealer, FINRA SEC, Banking, Corporate Trustee, Compliance, Cryptocurrency, Private Equity, Closely Held, Structured Products, Complex Assets, Securities, Offshore, Complex Insurance, Employment Disputes, DST Real Estate, Lending
Jon-Eric Kronvall is a testifying expert witness with more than 35 years of experience in fiduciary governance, retail, business, and private banking, investment advisory, and securities regulation. As President of Esoteric Advisors, he delivers expert reports, declarations, affidavits, depositions, and trial testimony to courts, arbitration panels, and counsel on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
Mr. Kronvall's concurrent role as President, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer of Wealth Innovation, a Registered Investment Adviser firm, keeps his expert opinions grounded in current market conditions. He is actively managing portfolios for high-net-worth clients using the same products, regulatory standards, and fiduciary frameworks he analyzes in litigation — informed by current practice rather than retrospective analysis. Esoteric Advisors and Wealth Innovation operate as independent practices with no shared clients, referrals, or overlapping engagements,...
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Paul Habibi, CPA/ABV/CFF
Nationally-Recognized Real Estate Expert Witness
Grayslake Advisors LLC
Los Angeles, California
Real Estate, Financial
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Accounting/Auditing, Banking, Commercial and Residential Real Estate, Inverse Condemnation, Lost Profits, Damages, Antitrust, Agriculture, Lender Liability, Loss of Use, Valuation, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Ground Leases, Brokerage, Joint Ventures, Securities, REITs, Construction/Development, Diminution in Value, Alter Ego
Paul Habibi is Principal and Founder of Grayslake Advisors, a real estate expert services firm based in Los Angeles and New York City. Grayslake's client's include publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, as well as privately held, small businesses, non-profit organizations and associations and individuals.
He has been retained as an expert witness in 300+ real estate litigation and regulatory matters, on engagements involving financial analysis, economic damages, accounting, valuation, and industry custom and practice. He has testified in some of the highest-profile matters in the country, in federal and state courts, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, and ADR forums. He has been retained by the vast majority of the AmLaw100 firms on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
He is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Continuing Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law, Faculty Advisor at UCLA Department of Economics, real estate investor and deve...
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Thomas M. Neches, CPA, ABV, CVA, CFE, CFF
Thomas Neches & Co., LLP
Los Angeles, California
Business Damages, Accounting
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CPA expert witness, forensic accounting, damages, business valuation, lost profits, reasonable royalty, alter ego, intellectual property, wrongful termination, wrongful death, breach of contract, lender liability, banking, entertainment, insurance, manufacturing, retail, securities, wholesale
Thomas Neches, managing partner of Thomas Neches & Company LLP, provides accounting, financial, business valuation and statistical analyses to assist attorneys involved in litigation.
Mr. Neches has testified as an expert in state and federal courts in Arizona, California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York and Oregon. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation, a Certified Valuation Analyst, a Certified Fraud Examiner and is Certified in Financial Forensics. He received his BA in Mathematics and Literature from UC San Diego and his MS in Operations Research from UCLA.
Mr. Neches has testified to juries on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, breach of contract, fraud, intellectual property, lender liability, personal injury and wrongful termination cases. Examples of the litigation issues he has addressed include lost profits, lost business value, determining a reasonable royalty and piercing the corporate veil. Representativ...
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Chris Petersen
Payments and Fintech solutions
Blue River Strategies, Inc
Dillon, Colorado
Technology, Financial
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Merchant Services, Card Acquring, Card Issuance, Direct Marketing, LPM Payments, Banking, Software, Fintech, Financial Technology, Software, Payments, Global Payments, Sales, Payfac, ISV Solutions, Core software, Digital solutions
Chris Petersen, Payments and Platforms, Merchant Services, Financial Technology and Banking Technology Expert
Chris Petersen is a nationally recognized technology solutions pioneer and subject matter expert in Financial Technology, Merchant services Payments and Banking solutions software. She brings 40 years of global experience.
Ms. Petersen provides expert witness services in matters involving electronic banking systems, payment processing, banking core services and merchant solutions. She has experience in all areas of consumer and commercial services. She is known for analytical rigor, independence, and the ability to clearly explain technical systems and processes. She has held global positions in technology solutions and participates in regular panels and presentations.
Areas of Expertise
Payments Systems
• Merchant services, Issuing and Acquiring
• Platforms,ISV, Payfac
• Processing
• Credit card, Debit card and Network Processing
• ACH and Global LPMS
• Paym...
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Max Holmes
Investor / Lawyer / NYU Stern Professor
Useful LLC
Greenwich, Connecticut
Business 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...
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Peter W. Leibundgut, Esq.
PD&J Associates, LLC
Fort Myers, Florida
Banking, Financial
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Banking, loans, contract disputes, commercial and consumer finance, mortgages, derivatives, lender liability, legal malpractice, public finance, fraud, bankruptcy, debtor and creditor's rights, banking regulations, lending compliance, bank policies and procedures
Peter has over forty years of transactional, public and private commercial and real estate finance, legal and bank consulting experience. He serves as an expert in cases involving public, commercial and real estate financing transactions. He provides litigation support in cases involving contract disputes and complex public and commercial finance matters centering on debtor and creditor rights.
Based upon his experience representing banks, finance companies, borrowers, investors and public entities in conventional and innovative financings, Peter provides litigation support and expert services in contract disputes, commercial and residential real estate, lender liability, legal malpractice, public finance, complex lending and credit facilities, and financial fraud cases. His experience spans thirty years of due diligence, structuring, closing and restructuring public and commercial financial transactions on behalf of lenders; county, state and federal authorities and issu...
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Paul Habibi, CPA/ABV/CFF
Nationally-Recognized Real Estate Expert Witness
Grayslake Advisors LLC
Florida
Real Estate, Financial
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Accounting/Auditing, Banking, Commercial and Residential Real Estate, Inverse Condemnation, Lost Profits, Damages, Antitrust, Agriculture, Lender Liability, Loss of Use, Valuation, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Ground Leases, Brokerage, Joint Ventures, Securities, REITs, Construction/Development, Diminution in Value, Alter Ego
Paul Habibi is Principal and Founder of Grayslake Advisors, a real estate expert services firm based in Los Angeles and New York City. Grayslake's client's include publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, as well as privately held, small businesses, non-profit organizations and associations and individuals.
He has been retained as an expert witness in 300+ real estate litigation and regulatory matters, on engagements involving financial analysis, economic damages, accounting, valuation, and industry custom and practice. He has testified in some of the highest-profile matters in the country, in federal and state courts, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, and ADR forums. He has been retained by the vast majority of the AmLaw100 firms on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
He is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Continuing Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law, Faculty Advisor at UCLA Department of Economics, real estate investor and deve...
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Ilonna J. Rimm, MD PhD CFA
Healthcare Valuation Expert - Physician
Rimm Healthcare Capital Advisory LLC
Newton Center, Massachusetts
Financial, Pediatric Hematology Oncology
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Appraisal and Valuation, Banking, Business Valuation, DNA, Financial, Securities and Investments, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Healthcare Services, Life Science Tools, Pharmaceuticals, Entrepreneurial Companies, Start-up companies
Ilonna Rimm, MD PhD CFA, is a healthcare investor who has significant expertise related to the valuation of healthcare companies. She recently served as an expert witness related to the valuation of early-stage biotechnology companies. In addition to drafting the expert report and rebuttal, she served as a deponent, and she testified in the trial.
As the CEO and Founder of Morninglight Healthcare Capital, LLC, a family office, she invests in small cap public companies (0 to $4B market cap). She also serves as an Advisor to Life Sciences CEO’s who are raising a Seed or Series A Round of capital, as Rimm Healthcare Capital Advisory, LLC. She recently provided services to Immuneering Corp., who raised a Series A round of $20M in January, 2020, and a Series B round of $62M in January, 2021. Immuneering is now a public company (IMRX). Ilonna currently works as a Financing Expert at the Harvard Innovation Lab, which is associated with Harvard Business School. Ilonna's advisory s...
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Randall Valentine, PhD
Valentine Forensic Finance
Expert Witness in Cryptocurrency, Financial Damages, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Credit Damages
Gulfport, Mississippi
Cryptocurrency, Financial
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Financial Damages from Cryptocurrency, Business Valuation, Hedge Funds, Lost Profits, Arbitration, Fiduciary Duty, Personal Injury Damages, Forensic Finance, Banking, Bankruptcy, Wrongful Death, Business Damages, Fraud, Wrongful Termination, Real Estate
As founder and lead expert of Valentine Forensic Finance, I bring a proven track record in delivering clear, credible, and defensible economic opinions for litigation. With a Ph.D. in Finance from Mississippi State University, a Graduate Certificate in FinTech from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania), and a Graduate Certificate in AI from Wharton, my expertise blends rigorous academic training with practical courtroom experience.
Over the course of my career, I have served as an expert witness in personal injury and wrongful death economic damages cases, wrongful termination claims, general financial damages disputes, cryptocurrency asset valuation and fraud cases, and credit damage matters. My analyses are grounded in accepted forensic economic methodologies, supported by peer-reviewed research, and tailored to withstand cross-examination.
My work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and USA Today and has even influenced public health policy abroad. In addition to ...
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Max Holmes
Investor / Lawyer / NYU Stern Professor
Useful LLC
New York
Business 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...
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Paul Habibi, CPA/ABV/CFF
Nationally-Recognized Real Estate Expert Witness
Grayslake Advisors LLC
New York
Real Estate, Financial
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Accounting/Auditing, Banking, Commercial and Residential Real Estate, Inverse Condemnation, Lost Profits, Damages, Antitrust, Agriculture, Lender Liability, Loss of Use, Valuation, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Ground Leases, Brokerage, Joint Ventures, Securities, REITs, Construction/Development, Diminution in Value, Alter Ego
Paul Habibi is Principal and Founder of Grayslake Advisors, a real estate expert services firm based in Los Angeles and New York City. Grayslake's client's include publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, as well as privately held, small businesses, non-profit organizations and associations and individuals.
He has been retained as an expert witness in 300+ real estate litigation and regulatory matters, on engagements involving financial analysis, economic damages, accounting, valuation, and industry custom and practice. He has testified in some of the highest-profile matters in the country, in federal and state courts, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, and ADR forums. He has been retained by the vast majority of the AmLaw100 firms on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.
He is a Senior Continuing Lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Continuing Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law, Faculty Advisor at UCLA Department of Economics, real estate investor and deve...
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Avian Tisdale, MD, MBA, Paralegal
Experienced Physician Executive and Paralegal
DHM Consulting
Richmond, Texas
Pain Management - Medicine, Fraud
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Adoption, Arbitratilon, Mediation, Banking, Empolyment Law, Business Operations, Dispute Resolution, Document Examination, Failure Analysis, Health Informatics, HIPAA, Hospital Administration, Human Resources, Mangement, Medical Billing, Risk Management, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, School Safety, OSHA
Physician executive with over 20 years of clinical, administrative, and academic experience across hospitals, emergency departments, inpatient units, urgent care centers, and community health systems. Board-certified physician with deep expertise in medical staff management, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance. Dual-trained with a Paralegal certification and MBA in Finance, offering unique insight into how healthcare operations intersect with legal, financial, and risk domains.
Highly experienced in identifying deviations from clinical standards, assessing system-level failures, and providing objective, evidence-based opinions.
Independent, Licensed and Board Certified, Full-time Availability
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Standards of Care
Emergency & Inpatient Pediatric Medicine
Hospital & Multi-Site System Administration
Medical Staff Credentialing & Supervision
Healthcare Compliance (HEDIS, NCQA, HRSA, FTCA)
HR Processes & Clinical Oversight
Value-Based Care & Quality Metrics
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