EXPERTISE

INVESTMENT BANKING,

ASSET MANAGEMENT, AND

WEALTH MANAGEMENT LITIGATIONS

Our experts have decades of hands-on experience as portfolio managers and senior managers on the buy side, sell side, at broker dealers and at leading financial institutions on a wide variety of asset classes, including:

Fixed Income
Equities
Derivatives
Structured Products
Quantitative Investments
Real Estate Strategic Investments

Our expertise includes Portfolio Management, Investment Advisory, Underwriting and Investment Banking, and Algorithmic Trading Activities.

As former executives at leading investment banks, our experts provide invaluable insights into the financial industry best practices in developing and executing corporate strategies for business expansion, strategic marketing, and product strategies.

Their expertise includes sourcing, negotiating, and executing global strategic investments in products and distribution, including:

acquisitions,
lift-outs,
corporate ventures,
joint ventures and
emerging manager seedings in hedge funds and long-only products.

Asset Management Expert Witness | SEDA Experts | USA

Representative Engagements

Largest Shareholder in US Major Insurance Company vs. U.S. Government
Claim against the U.S. Government in connection to assistance and buyout process taken over a large insurance company due to its exposure to structured credit products such as CDO, CLOs and RMBS, as well as exposure in connection to its securities lending program. Represented Plaintiffs. Assessment of overall exposure to structured credit products and securities lending program.
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Transamerica Corporation et al.
SEC claim against Transamerica for, According to the SEC’s order, alleging that investors put billions of dollars into mutual funds and strategies using the faulty models developed by investment adviser AEGON USA Investment Management LLC (AUIM) and that when AUIM and TAM learned about the errors, they stopped using the models without telling investors or disclosing the errors.
Top Tier European Bank v. Large Asset Management Company
SEDA Experts assisted Defendants on the claim by Investment Bank (Funding Agent) over the termination amount of hybrid CDOs warehouse that failed to close, in connection with hedges placed against the warehouse assets, and their potential mitigation impact in the final warehouse losses claimed by the Investment Bank. SEDA team assessed the overall warehouse portfolio, including all hedging positions in order to calculate the net gain/loss for the warehouse upon termination event.