ABOUT SEDA
SEDA Experts is a global financial services firm providing expert witness, consulting, and advisory services to law firms, financial institutions, and regulators navigating the world's most complex financial disputes. We are not a staffing agency for academics — we are a firm of former senior practitioners who built, traded, regulated, and litigated these markets
The firm behind
the experts
WHO WE ARE
WHY SEDA
Practitioners, not career experts — Our experts have held real front-office and regulatory roles, bringing first-hand market experience rather than purely academic or advisory perspectives.
Global, cross-regulatory credibility — We operate seamlessly across US, UK, Europe, and APAC matters, with experts who understand how markets and regulators interact across jurisdictions.
Integrated from strategy to testimony — We support matters from early case assessment through report writing, deposition, and trial, ensuring consistency, credibility, and no disconnect between theory and practice.
Founded by practitioners with decades of experience across leading global financial institutions, SEDA Experts was built on a simple premise: the most credible expert is one who has performed the role in practice.
SEDA’s experts include former senior executives from major international banks; former commissioners and senior officials from key financial regulators across the US, UK, Europe, and Asia-Pacific; and former partners at leading global consulting firms. They have run trading desks, led risk and compliance functions, supervised markets, and advised regulators — before becoming the experts who explain those markets in complex disputes.
SEDA is instructed in high-stakes matters before courts and tribunals worldwide — including federal and appellate courts, commercial courts, and leading international arbitration forums such as LCIA and ICC — by leading law firms and financial institutions that require the highest standard of expertise.
A different kind of
consulting & expert witness firm
OUR ANALYTICAL TEAM
The team behind
the analysis
Every SEDA expert is supported by a specialist analytical team of finance graduates, CFAs, and PhDs drawn from leading universities and financial institutions. Our analysts work directly alongside testifying experts on financial modelling, data analysis, damages calculations, and research — ensuring that every expert opinion is supported by analysis that is both methodologically sound and clearly presented to courts and tribunals.
This integrated model — senior practitioner expertise backed by specialist analytical support — is what allows SEDA to deliver the depth and quality of work that the most complex financial disputes require.
Finance graduates and CFAs from leading global universities and institutions
PhDs in economics, finance, mathematics, and quantitative analysis
Dedicated to quantitative modelling, damages calculations, and data analytics
Integrated across all 18 practice areas and 4 global jurisdictions
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Quantitative
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Research &
Documentation
Data &
Technology
Financial modelling, statistical analysis, econometrics, and damages calculations — built to withstand cross-examination, peer review, and Daubert challenge. Our analysts support experts across securities, derivatives, structured products, and complex damages matters.
Market data analysis, transaction reconstruction, regulatory research, and expert report drafting support. Our research team ensures that every expert report is grounded in the most current market data, regulatory guidance, and academic literature relevant to the matter.
Advanced data analytics, large dataset processing, and technology-assisted document review — supporting the most data-intensive expert engagements across algorithmic trading, structured finance, crypto, and complex multi-party damages matters.
Managing Partner
Damiano Colnago is the co-founder of SEDA Experts LLC and the former Co-Head of CDO Risk and Compliance at Wilmington Trust. He specializes in custody and trustee services, and collateral administration. He has over 15 years of expert witness experience, and his expertise includes banking operation, collateralized debt obligations, fund of funds, derivatives, asset-backed securities (ABS), mortgage-backed securities (MBS), syndicated loans, and cryptocurrencies.
Chairman and Managing Partner
Peter Selman has over 25 years of experience in the finance industry spanning global equities and derivatives, as the former Head of Global Equities at Deutsche Bank, and the Co-head of Global Equity Trading at Goldman Sachs. He is a world class expert in all aspects of equity products including cash equities, OTC options and listed options and futures, equity valuation, securities lending and prime finance, ETFs and ETNs, and structured products.
Managing Partner
Sergio Godinho is the co-founder of SEDA Experts LLC and the former Head of CDO Risk and Compliance at Wilmington Trust. He is a senior professional with diversified experience in both the financial services industry, as well as providing advice in litigation, dispute resolution, mediation, and business consulting matters, including class actions and class certifications.
Partner - Head of Asia Pacific
Rakesh Manani brings nearly 30 years of experience in asset management, capital markets, derivatives and institutional financing. Throughout his career at Goldman Sachs, he held senior positions across Europe, Asia and Australia, advising and working with leading asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors.
Client Solutions & Legal
Director of Client Solutions
Melissa Gleave is a senior investment banking and financial markets professional with over two decades of experience across derivatives, capital markets, and institutional client coverage, combined with leadership roles in expert services for financial disputes. She partners with litigation teams to identify and engage suitable expert witnesses, ensure alignment on each engagement, and introduce trusted external specialists for complex matters.
General Counsel
Tom Bohan brings extensive in-house experience, having held senior legal positions at IBM and Dell, and having served as Acting General Counsel for Store Operations at The Home Depot.