Foreign Exchange Expert Witnesses

Morristown, New Jersey

Securities & Investments, Fraud - Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, Trading Practices, Security Manipulation, Fiduciary Duty, Due Diligence, Forensic Audit, CFE, CAIA, Options, Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals, Venture Capital, Real Estate

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 25 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...

New York

Securities & Investments, Fraud - Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, Trading Practices, Security Manipulation, Fiduciary Duty, Due Diligence, Forensic Audit, CFE, CAIA, Options, Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals, Venture Capital, Real Estate

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 25 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...

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...