Vega experts in financial institutions are experienced in finance, economic theory, regulatory and industry practice, and risk management. Our experts possess deep industry knowledge from both a regulatory and commercial banking perspective, as well as knowledge of trading practices and financial markets. Members of our network have been retained to address issues arising out of financial services regulation, investigations, and litigation matters. Our experts are highly qualified and rely on years of subject matter experience in both academia and industry to provide potent expert testimony. They also rely on extensive statistical expertise to provide sophisticated economic models of financial markets, financial trading, risk, and damages.
Below is a list of example engagements for our Financial Institutions practice:
Analysis of Municipal Bond Underwriting: Gary Strumeyer and Vega Economics were retained by municipal bond underwriters to analyze and address underwriting of certain bonds at issue, the transactions by which certain investors acquired their bonds, and investors’ opportunities to sell their bonds.
Analysis of Underwriting Policies of a Retail Credit Card Program: Vega Economics was retained to support Mr. Myron Glucksman in a securities case to analyze underwriting policies of a retail credit card program, issued by a major private label credit card company.
Analysis of Regulatory Violations in Mortgage Loan Origination: Dr. Andrew Zuppann of Vega Economics was retained to provide an expert analysis of potential regulatory violations in the origination of mortgage loans for an arbitration proceeding. In support of the client, Dr. Zuppann analyzed loan files, origination documents, and related documents for a set of loans with alleged violations of one or more federal regulations and/or other underwriting issues during the origination process.
Master Servicing of RMBS: The Vega team supported the damages rebuttal expert, servicing expert, and securitization expert in the analysis and drafting of expert reports to address claims related to the obligations of an RMBS master servicer.
Spoofing in High Frequency Trading: In USA v Vorley and Chanu (1:18-cr-00035), Vega analyzed allegations of certain traders’ spoofing conduct and evaluated calculations of alleged market harm associated with these spoofing activities.
Analysis of the LIBOR Transition: The Vega team is engaged by one of the world’s largest banks to provide consulting and research support in connection with the LIBOR transition. As part of the engagement, Vega created mapping for over 300 RMBS transactions across different data sources and analyzes the impact of LIBOR transition and COFI cessation on loans backing these transactions.
Intervention by the Federal Reserve in a Distressed Company: A Vega expert provided testimony in a case involving the Federal Reserve’s intervention in a distressed corporation in connection with the 2008 financial crisis. The expert analyzed the Federal Reserve’s credit facilities and lending practices to financial institutions and other firms and provided an overview of the market crisis and its effect on the corporation.
Syndicated Loan Transaction: A Vega expert testified regarding the due diligence obligations in a syndicated loan transaction. The engagement involved analysis of the relevant regulatory duties of the parties to the transaction.
Servicing and Master Servicing of RMBS: The Vega team supported both the damages rebuttal expert and the servicing expert in the analysis and drafting of expert reports to address claims related to the obligations of the servicer and master servicer of RMBS in a half dozen cases.
Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore
- Consumer Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Real Estate
Founder of Robust Advisors, Inc.
- Financial Institutions
- Securities & Finance
- Real Estate
Assistant Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Yeshiva University and CEO of WOTN
- Valuation
- Insurance & Risk
- Securities & Finance
- FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
- Financial Institutions
- Real Estate
Principal at Bank Experts Group
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Real Estate
- Securities & Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Financial Institutions
- Securities & Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Consumer Finance
Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Valuation
- Financial Institutions
- Real Estate
- Private Equity
Associate Professor in the Department of Finance of the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University
- Intellectual Property
- Antitrust & Competition
- Corporate Finance
- Securities & Finance
- Data Science & Statistics
- Financial Institutions
- Real Estate
Gary D. Cohn Goldman Sachs Chair in Finance in the Kogod School of Business at American University
- Securities & Finance
- Financial Institutions
Managing Director, Bentley Associates, L.P.
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Securities & Finance
- Valuation
Associate Professor of Finance at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University
- Securities & Finance
- Antitrust & Competition
- Data Science & Statistics
- Financial Institutions
- Valuation
Director of the Mathematics in Finance Master's program and a Clinical Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; Partner at CorePoint.
- FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
- Securities & Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Data Science & Statistics
- Valuation
Founding Director, Perihelion Capital Advisors
- Corporate Finance
- Data Science & Statistics
- Financial Institutions
Allstate Chair in Insurance and Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Insurance & Risk
- Accounting
- Securities & Finance
- Valuation
- Financial Institutions
Executive Director of the Master of Finance program at Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
- Financial Institutions
Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Securities & Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Consumer Finance
- Financial Institutions
Senior lecturer in the finance area at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
- Corporate Finance
- Securities & Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Valuation
William H. Purcell Consulting
- Bankruptcy & Insolvency
- Financial Institutions
- Private Equity
Consultant and Expert Witness
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Securities & Finance
University Lecturer at NYU Courant; Partner at CorePoint
- Data Science & Statistics
- Valuation
- Securities & Finance
- Financial Institutions
- FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
Professor of Finance in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University
- Securities & Finance
- Valuation
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions
- FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
John M. Schiff Professor of Finance in the Stern School of Business at NYU
- Securities & Finance
- Financial Institutions
Adjunct Professor of Finance/Economics, at LIU Post
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Securities & Finance
- Corporate Governance
Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions
Professor of the Graduate School, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- Consumer Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Institutions