ABOUT SEDA

Financial Expert Witness | United States | SEDA Experts

SEDA Experts is a consulting firm specializing in financial services. We provide superior independent advice, expert witness services, data analytics, and valuation services to law firms in litigation and business contexts.

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Our mission is to support law firms by offering the highest level of expertise across the financial industry, providing access to the most influential financial services industry leaders in the market.

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Our experts have unmatched industry experience in a vast array of financial services practices. With decades of industry experience as senior executives and global managing directors at leading financial institutions, consulting firms, and regulators, each of our financial expert witnesses is dedicated to applying exceptional real-world economic, financial, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges.  

We deliver academic rigor, objectivity, and industry best experience with issues arising from regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.

OUR SERVICES

SEDA financial expert witnesses have provided independent litigation and consulting services in hundreds of high stake litigation, dispute, and consulting matters. Our services include:

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Financial Expert Witnesses Testimony and Report

Litigation Process Support

Mediation, Class Certification Consulting

Complex Data Analysis

Damages Calculations

Engaging World Class Experts

Advisory Services

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Our experts have hands-on experience as portfolio managers and senior managers of trading desks on buy side, sell side, and broker dealers on a wide variety of asset classes, including: ​

• Fixed Income

• Equities

• Derivatives

• Structured Products

• SPACs

• Quantitative Investments

Our expertise includes Portfolio Management, Investment Advisory, Underwriting and Investment Banking, and trading activities.

ASSET MANAGEMENT

AND INVESTMENTS

COMPLEX SECURITIES

AND DERIVATIVES

Our world-class financial industry experts have experience working extensively on the valuation of complex securities such as:

• Equities,

• Fixed income,

• Structured Finance Products (ABS, CMBS, RMBS, CDO),

• OTC derivatives products, such as interest rate swaps (IRS), credit default swaps (CDS), and exotic derivatives, and

• Exchange-traded derivatives.

Our expertise includes valuation, ISDA documentation, regulatory requirements, and best market practices.

Our team has an extensive industry experience in:
 

• Custody services such as safekeeping, trade processing and settlement, 

• Trustee services, 

• Collateral administration for complex fund structures, and

• Fund administration for regulated funds and hedge funds.
   

Our expertise includes structured finance products such as CDOs, RMBS and CMBS, ABCP, SIVs, Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations, complex fee arrangements, reconciliation and reporting for investors and accounting purposes.

CUSTODY AND 

TRUSTEE SERVICES

RISK MANAGEMENT AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

SEDA Experts are world-class experts in:
 

• Market risk,

• Counterparty risk,

• Portfolio risk management, and

• ERISA, FINRA, SEC, and other regulatory compliance.
   

Our expertise includes, but is not limited to, VaR models and benchmarks against best market practices, current regulatory regimens, best market practices for risk measurement and reporting, as well as best risk and pricing practices of hedging positions.

SEDA Experts team consulting experience includes economic damages, and valuations triggered by a breach of contract and commercial disputes, including:

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• Fraud

• Misrepresentation

• Misappropriation

• Products mislabeling

• Trade secrets, and

• Other related allegations and claims

We have experience applying different methodologies and well-accepted analyses such as lost profits, full-price restitution, disgorgement of profits, as well as valuation methods such as discounted cash flows, market multiples, comparable analysis, and event study analysis.

ECONOMIC DAMAGES AND VALUATIONS