• Expert Report and Testimony on behalf of Duke Energy LNG Sales, Inc, filed in Arbitration Pursuant To The Uncitral Arbitration Rules.
• Expert Report and Testimony on behalf of Energy Transfer, Inc. vs. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filed in response to natural gas market manipulation charges.
• Expert Declarations and Testimony on behalf of defendants filed in In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation.
• Testimony before the IRS Advance Pricing Agreement Committee on internal arms length commodity derivative transaction for risk and tax purposes for a multinational corporation.
• Expert report, deposition testimony, and trial testimony on behalf of Nevada Partners Fund, LLC vs. Internal Revenue Service filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division.  Certified as an Expert in Hedge Funds and Funds of Funds.
• Expert report, deposition testimony, and trial testimony on behalf of Amaranth Advisors, LLC, Amaranth, LLC, Amaranth Management Limited Partnership, Amaranth International Limited, Amaranth Partners, LLC, Amaranth Capital Partners, LLC, Amaranth Group, Inc., Amaranth Advisors (Calgary) ULC, Mr. Brian Hunter, Mr. Mathew Donohoe vs. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, USA.  Certified as an Expert in Physical Natural Gas Trading & Markets.
• Expert Report & Testimony on behalf of MachGen v. Shaw.  Arbitration Hearing, Washington, D.C.  Lost revenue from delays in construction of two generating stations.
• Expert Report & Testimony on behalf of Duke Energy Marketing Limited Partnership v. 3946231 Canada, Inc.; ExxonMobil Canada Energy; Mobil Oil Canada Ltd.; ExxonMobil Canada Properties.  Arbitration Hearing, Houston, TX.  Dispute regarding wrongful termination of gas marketing agreement on grounds of financial insecurity.
• Expert Report & Testimony on behalf of Enron Creditors Recovery Corp, et al vs. Citicorp, Incorporated, et al.  United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York.
• Expert Declaration on behalf of defendants filed in re Western Sates Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation in the U.S. District Court, District of Nevada MDL.
• Expert Affidavit and testimony on behalf of defendant with Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Dispute regarding representations by broker in providing indicative price quotations to clients for purposes of marking to market their derivatives contracts.
• Expert Report and Testimony on behalf of Nevada Partners Fund, LLC vs Internal Revenue Service filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division. Certified as an Expert in Investment Management and Investment Structures.
• Extensive experience in a variety of intellectual property issues involving patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, and know how. Have worked on assignments relating to strategic management, licensing, litigation, and competition issues related to IP matters.
• Testified in federal and state court, ITC, AAA, IAA, and ICC matters involving a broad range of IP related damages issues, including lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, anti-trust, and related topics. Subject matter has involved patents, trademarks and trade dress, copyrights, and trade secrets. Testified regarding competition issues and the impact of the form and structure of patent license terms on technology innovation. Testified regarding product and geographical market definition related to patent and antitrust damages. Served as court appointed expert, examiner, and consultant in federal and state court proceedings.
• Conducted extensive studies in strategic management of intellectual property for corporate clients including multinational, international, joint ventures, and start-up and development stage companies. Work performed included research and analysis regarding industry dynamics and IP management practices and evaluation of corporate IP strategies relating to invention/innovation cycles, license-in/license-out policies, buy/sell strategies, portfolio optimization, license enforcement, and overall offensive and defensive IP strategies.
• Negotiated licenses and assisted clients in license negotiations and technology transfer projects. Determined appropriate compensation package, including royalty payments, based on the proposed structure and terms of the license agreement for the subject technology. Performed empirical studies associated with the subject technology’s financial performance, industry practices and investment strategies. Reviewed and analyzed the terms and conditions of several thousand license agreements. Performed royalty compliance audits.
• Performed extensive studies in the computer hardware and peripheral sector, including components. Analyzed trends in prices, volume, and market share of PC manufacturers and related components including integrated circuits, chip sets, mother boards, etc.
• Involved in a variety of projects relating to the chemical industry including processes, formulation, and compounds. Work included evaluation of lost profits and reasonable royalties, and industry licensing practices. Negotiated licenses and performed valuations relating to chemical processes compounds and formulations.
• Performed numerous analyses regarding valuation and licensing of trade secrets technology, as well as impact on antitrust licensing guidelines.
• Performed studies relating to product liability issues related to electronics components, consumer electronics products and consumer and industrial products. Analyzed economic impact of defective products on manufacturers, retailers, and consumers. Performed studies related to cost of settlements and design and implementation of such settlements.
• Analyzed and testified regarding punitive damages in a variety of cases. Considered defendants' conduct, enrichment, industry practices, market capitalization and net assets as well as and financial benefits derived from conduct to determine levels of punitive damages, from a public policy perspective, which would meet statutory requirements.
• Performed extensive market analyses relating to a variety of income producing properties in order to determine overall economic trends, submarket conditions, absorption and rental rates, operating expenses, capital expenditures and prevailing interest rates.
• Performed workouts and debt restructuring for various types of real estate projects. Also testified in various bankruptcy proceedings regarding plan confirmation, including performing underlying studies regarding market trends and conditions with request for the subject project and the ability to rehabilitate the Debtor.
• Analyzed disclosure issues relating to public and private offerings of securities in domestic and foreign markets. Analyzed stock price movement of publicly traded companies in various industries after the initial offering to determine the effect of certain events and their impact on stock prices. These analyses included event studies to identify peer groups of publicly traded companies in order to determine whether and to what degree the stock price movement was industry and company specific. Calculated Section 16(b) short swing profits. Performed appraisals of securities of closely held companies, including minority interests and control blocks.
• Also involved in numerous derivative shareholder matters involving disputes over pending acquisitions/divestitures and valuation of shares of majority controlling and minority blocks. Retained as an expert by courts to determine the value of minority shares in derivative shareholder actions.
• Performed numerous investigations relating to white-collar crime and criminal referral matters involving transactions relating to financial services, real estate and consumer and industrial products and services, and the oil and gas industry.
• Performed numerous investigations of foreign bank operations, investment companies and related transactions in Asia, Europe, The Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean relating to investment programs and performance of and recovery of underlying assets.
• Analyzed offshore and blue-sky private placement offerings to determine whether and the extent to which material misrepresentations and omissions were made and their impact on investors.
• Retained by federal and state regulators to investigate fraud matters relating to financial services companies including commercial banks, savings banks, mortgage and insurance companies.
• Involved in Qui Tan litigation involving the healthcare, government contracting and environmental matters.
• Analyzed and traced transactions involving billions of dollars allegedly related to schemes under civil and criminal RICO statutes. Have been retained by private entities such as financial sector institutions and government agencies such as FNMAE, FSLIC, RTC and FDIC.
• Reconstructed transactions to determine the nature and scope of transactions under investigation. Also involved in asset tracing and asset recovery investigations. Performed studies of industry standards and practices involving transactions to determine whether they were in conformity with accepted industry practice.
• Traced monies through various accounts of a group of interrelated trusts to determine whether the trustee had violated any fiduciary duties and had engaged in self-dealing.
• Investigated counterfeit activity related to consumer and industrial products and the damage caused to client reputation and goodwill as well as lost profits.

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