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Litigation Support and Fraud Investigation
Additional Information
Litigation Support is the analyses that are done that would support a client’s position in litigation or in a transaction that might end up in litigation.
We have supported many individual clients, attorneys, local authorities. If data, financials or statistics need analyzed, we can help support your position. We have prevented many lawsuits, which would have been unsupportable. We have also assisted in quick settlements, saving clients thousands. Delivering the truth, not always desirable, but necessary to avoid failure. We are also experienced giving expert testimony during depositions and trials.
Our experience in Litigation Support includes the following:
• Will dispute
• Estate alleging misconduct by a professional
• Valuation for “Buy sell” agreement
• Settling “buy-sell” conflicts
• Business Split-Up (Valuation and Forensic Accounting)
• Conflicts between brothers and sisters, parent and child, or divorced spouses still working in same business
• To allocate purchase price for book and tax purpose in a merger or sale or acquisition
• Advising a Creditor’s Committee in a Bankruptcy
• Bankruptcy investigations
• Looking for assets and asset tracing
• Analyzing future cash flow and profitability
• Matrimonial disputes
• Matrimonial – settling post judgment disputes
• Matrimonial - post judgment child support compliance
• Tracing of flow of funds
• Determining income and assist in preparation of Case
Information Statement in a divorce
• Life style analysis
• Cash flow analysis
• Determination of value of premarital assets and/or retirement
funds
• Pre filing consultation
• Economic damages – lost wages, health insurance costs and lost retirement savings as a result of being forced to retire early
• Industry specific knowledge
• Income analysis
• Joint marital tax returns
• Child support substantiation or verification
• Post judgment change of circumstances
• Evaluating business interests
• Calculation of damages
• Damages and loss from a fire
• Special counsel investigation of contributions to qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans on behalf of an individual over a prolonged period
• Business succession between parents and child, and between siblings and between children and key person running business where “promises” were made but never put in writing
• Management fees allocated to costs in a cost-plus project
• Professional malpractice charges – plaintiff or defense cases
• Lost wages
• Damages caused by a disability caused by a landlord
• Verify tax rates used on individual tax returns are correct
• Determine tax rates to apply to assets that will be subject to, or partially subject to, income tax
• To determine built-in gain for C corporation conversion to S status
• Fair value for financial statement purposes
• Derivation of merger ratio between related parties
• Stock split up valuation
• Economic reasonableness of a management agreement and adherence to it
• Restructuring of revolving, working capital, equipment or mortgage debt
• Structuring a management buyout
• Valuation of assets seized by government agency or as a result of
a judgment
• Lost royalties in a patent or copyright dispute
• Damages from a construction delay
• Merger or acquisition due diligence
• Business and non-profit organization fraud investigation
• Technology fraud from email or firewall penetration
• Banking discrepancies, compliance, deposit and loan
• Mortgage loan discrepancies and compliance