Services

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We offer a depth and breadth of expert consulting experience in securities and capital markets litigation, including dozens of cases with opinions focused on due diligence standard of care and custom and practice for underwriters (in transactions including IPOs, equity follow-on offerings and debt offerings), mergers & acquisitions, and private equity and venture capital investments; customary practices in the investment banking industry; and customary practices in the private equity and venture capital businesses. 

We provide support services to testifying expert witnesses that make the expert witness more effective and efficient in what are typically document- and fact-intensive cases, often with compressed timelines. We can assist testifying experts throughout the entirety of an engagement, including the following:    

• Case record review, research and organization
• Financial analysis
• Developing conceptual framework for opinions and reports
• Report drafting and editing
• Deposition preparation
• Trial preparation, including design and drafting of demonstratives

We help publicly traded smallcap companies outsource corporate finance, accounting and SEC compliance functions at a fraction of the price of a full-time equivalent, public accounting firm or law firm, allowing the principals to focus on running the business. We bring decades of experience across a broad spectrum of corporate finance functions ranging from the everyday to the highly specialized, including the following:

• Audit preparation and interaction with independent auditor staff through all phases of quarterly reviews and annual audits
• Accounting and audit documentation of sophisticated financing transactions common to smallcap companies such as equity-linked debt instruments, derivative financial instruments, fair valuation of debt, and many others
• Full drafting of SEC reports, including 10-Qs, 10-Ks, 8-Ks, proxy statements and registration statements
• Financial forecasting and budgeting
• Assistance with capital raising, including preparation of investor presentations, coordination with investment bankers and lawyers on due diligence and procedural matters, and making investor pitches 
• Basic bookkeeping

We bring a wealth of experience in performing financial, accounting and business diligence on a variety of transactions in the U.S. and abroad, including target company diligence in merger and acquisition transactions and investments by private and institutional investors. Our diligence expertise typically supplements the internal diligence team of the acquiring company or investing entity. Diligence services we offer include the following:  

• Analysis of target company accounting personnel, policies and procedures and accounting and reporting internal controls
• Evaluation of target company of financial models, including stress testing and analyzing the reasonableness of underlying assumptions
• Historical financial statement review and analysis
• Vendor and customer checks
• Other tailored services for special situations.