Our team of experts brings a wealth of experience, covering 19 countries and 40 exchanges with a portfolio of over 750,000 products. They've served on the boards of prestigious institutions like the Boston Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange and have been active advisors on various industry committees. They played a crucial role in developing and implementing market conduct risk management frameworks specifically for algorithmic trading systems. This involved thorough assessments of trading platforms to identify potential risks and recommend effective remediation strategies. Our experts also introduce innovative approaches to enhance risk management frameworks, such as scorecard-based assessments and monitoring systems designed to improve the efficiency and consistency of risk evaluations. Additionally, they are at the forefront of utilizing natural language processing to analyze trading documentation, identifying signs of risky behavior in real-time.

As industry leaders, our team has extensive expertise in various investment vehicles, including hedge funds, venture capital (VC) funds, private equity (PE) funds, and complex master-feeder fund structures. Our experts in commodities, emerging market securities, and foreign exchange (FX) instruments possess a deep understanding of global supply chains, geopolitical risks, and macroeconomic market dynamics, and they are also proficient in complex financial arrangements, such as insurance-linked financial products. Additionally, our experts have substantial experience in structuring and managing a wide array of structured products, including complex structured credit instruments like collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), collateralized bond obligations (CBOs), and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs), among other asset-backed securities (ABSs). They are adept at facilitating complex investment structures through special purpose vehicles (SPVs), structured financing, and securitization processes. Our team also possesses specialized knowledge in real estate investments, with expertise in real estate investment trusts (REITs) and both residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs and CMBSs). This diverse expertise enables us to provide comprehensive insights and solutions across a broad spectrum of alternative asset classes and investment securities.

SEDA Experts delivers world-class litigation support and economic analysis for antitrust and competition cases. Our team comprises seasoned professionals whose expertise in navigating the complexities of high-stakes antitrust class action disputes is unparalleled. Specializing in the intricacies of antitrust litigation, we adeptly handle claims involving price-fixing, bid-rigging, and monopolistic practices:

Our team has provided expert opinions on issues such as prudent investments, asset diversification, management and incentive fees, duties and responsibilities of investment managers, and fund compliance with investment objectives and governing documents. We also address representations to investors, fiduciary duties, and standards of care and loyalty.

Our team of experts offers authoritative guidance and testimony across a wide range of functions, including trustee and indenture trustee roles, custodian and sub-custodian duties, collateral and fund administration, calculation agent services, and both master and special servicer responsibilities. Backed by extensive industry experience, SEDA Experts is committed to delivering precise, informed assessments tailored to meet the rigorous demands of litigation and dispute resolution.

Our experts’ firsthand exposure to many securities offerings’ transactions, from simple to highly complex, while running ECM and DCM globally at major banks, makes them uniquely well positioned to assist clients in a dispute and litigation context.

Our team is comprised of industry senior executives who served as board members or advisors to numerous companies in a wide variety of industry segments, including industrial manufacturing, health care, financial services, cybersecurity and marketing.

Our team brings experience in fund formation, market and blockchain research, systems implementation, strategic execution, and risk management. Additionally, our experts have co-founded an alternative asset fund centered on a cryptocurrency portfolio, managing areas like research, strategy execution, yield farming, protocol staking, and overseeing investor relations and fund administration. Our experts have handled multiple different civil and criminal matters and have testifying experience in crypto and digital assets related matters.

Our experts provide written expert reports and testimony on matters involving business valuation across various industries and business types, damages models, and theories such as lost profits, disgorgement of profits, full-price restitutions, and replacement costs, among other well-accepted damages methods. We have extensive experience developing rigorous damages models around trade secrets, unjust enrichment, breach of contract, misrepresentation, and manipulation.

SEDA’s Energy and Commodities practice comprises a team of seasoned professionals with comprehensive expertise spanning trading, derivatives, hedging, transportation, contract negotiation (e.g., freight agreements), risk management, pricing strategies, and regulatory compliance.

By leveraging industry-leading insights and deep knowledge of complex financial structures, our experts provide comprehensive support for litigation and dispute resolution. With deep experience across major financial institutions, investment banks, and regulatory bodies, SEDA Experts delivers rigorous analysis and insights to support litigation, dispute resolution, and advisory needs in finance. Explore our areas of expertise below to see how we can guide you through the intricacies of today’s financing landscape.

Our highly qualified experts offer consulting, independent opinions, and expert testimony for disputes involving regulatory and enforcement frameworks. We specialize in commercial and investment banking activities and a wide array of financial instruments, including securities, derivatives, fixed income, commodities, complex structured credit products, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets. Our expertise ensures compliance with industry standards and key regulations, such as Dodd-Frank, the Investment Company Act, and the Investment Adviser Act, among others, providing clients with insights grounded in current regulatory requirements and best practices.

SEDA’s experts identified acquisition targets, managed due diligence processes, negotiated and assessed reps and warranties, provided M&A and PE advice, issued fairness opinions, raised debt and equity, and advised on many restructurings. SEDA’s experts have experience in structuring, executing, and negotiating M&A and PE transactions spanning globally.

Our experts have held senior positions at major investment and commercial banks and have served as advisors and consultants to prominent international organizations and sovereign entities, including the European Union, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Development Bank, World Bank, Government of Barbados, G7 central banks, United Nations, and the OECD.

Our team consists of world-class authorities, including former Chief Risk Officers and Chief Credit Officers and Heads of Counterparty and Market Risk at leading financial institutions, including banks and broker-dealers, who have significantly shaped the landscape of risk management.

Our experts have provided opinions and testimony on high stake matters involving issues related to exchanges operational issues, policy and procedures, best market practices and regulatory requirements, as well as disputes in connection with central counterparty clearing, warrants agreements, interest rate and credit default swaps, trade secrets, equities and fixed income trading, among other issues.

SEDA’s securities class actions practice is spearheaded by experienced economists who have over twenty-five years in litigation consulting. They specialize in securities class actions, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, shareholder derivatives, and valuation cases. Their expertise focuses on key areas such as market efficiency, materiality, loss causation, and damage estimation in securities class actions.