Experts in our network have experience addressing complex accounting issues in a variety of contexts including investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters. Our experts have professional and academic experience as CPAs and CFAs and are experts in management accounting, management control systems, forensic accounting, and corporate governance.

Our experts have been retained in litigation regarding cost and inventory accounting where they have addressed issues such as liability and damages. In addition, they have testified in matters involving fraudulent financial reporting. 

Paul Habibi

Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law

  • Real Estate
  • Corporate Finance
  • Valuation
  • Financial Institutions
  • Private Equity
  • Accounting
Gordon Klein

Lecturer of Accounting at UCLA Anderson School of Management

  • Securities & Finance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Valuation
  • Accounting
  • Corporate Governance
Francis A. Longstaff

Allstate Chair in Insurance and Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management

  • Insurance & Risk
  • Valuation
  • Securities & Finance
  • Financial Institutions
  • Accounting
Thomas Z. Lys

Eric L. Kohler Professor Emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

  • Real Estate
  • Valuation
  • Securities & Finance
  • Antitrust & Competition
  • Accounting
Kenneth Merchant

Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy and Professor of Accounting at Leventhal School of Accounting, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California

  • Accounting
Daniel Taylor

Associate Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  • Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
  • Leadership & Management
  • Accounting
  • Corporate Governance
June 7, 2021 | Featured Expert
Dr. Thomas Lys, Eric L. Kohler Professor Emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Our featured expert, Dr. Thomas Lys is is an expert in areas including accounting, corporate finance, corporate governance, real estate, and finance. Dr. Lys was recently supported by Vega to rebut plaintiffs’ damages calculations in seven cases brought against RMBS servicers and master servicers.

April 23, 2021 | Article
Recent SEC Guidance Classifies Some SPAC Warrants as Liabilities

Recent SEC accounting guidance reclassifying SPAC warrants as liabilities instead of equities has drawn new attention to SPACs. In light of these developments, we discuss SPACs and SPAC warrants.