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Skyscrapers and Sky
DAMAGES, FORENSICS, AND FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS
Practice Area

SEDA’s damages, forensics, and investigation practice is comprised of economists, certified accountants (CPAs), certified fraud examiners (CFEs), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Valuation Analyst, Certified in Financial Forensics, Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) among other.

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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.

Our experts specialize in criminal and civil financial fraud, Ponzi schemes, SEC and FINRA enforcement actions, commercial business damages, business valuations, federal income, estate and gift taxation, GAAP and related accounting issues, as well as bankruptcy matters.



EXPERTISE

  • Damages and Valuation

  • Forensic Accounting and Investigations

  • Complex Financial Fraud

  • Consumer Fraud and Product Liability

  • Tax Fraud and Disputes

  • Securities and financial products

  • Financial disclosures

  • Event studies

  • Competition and market structure

RELATED EXPERTS

Svetla Tzenova, Ph.D.

Svetla Tzenova, Ph.D.

Bio

Managing Director

Dr. Tzenova provides expert testimony and litigation consulting services on a broad spectrum of economic issues in the areas of commercial damages, business valuation, intellectual property, antitrust and competition strategy, and various issues at the intersection of business and government.

Former

NERA Economic Consulting - Senior Consultant in the Firm’s Antitrust and Intellectual Property Practices

Expertise

Commercial and Economic Damages, Business Valuation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Competition Strategy

Kevin D. Oden Ph.D.

Kevin D. Oden Ph.D.

Bio

Managing Director

Dr. Oden, has unrivaled financial risk management expertise and over 30 years of financial markets experience with leading financial institutions firms Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, holding executive positions. As former EVP and Head of Operational Risk and Compliance he is a world class expert in market risk, credit risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk.

Former

Wells Fargo Bank - EVP, Head of Operational Risk and Compliance

Goldman Sachs - VP Asset Management

Expertise

Market, Credit and Counterparty Risk, Operational Risk, Risk Model Development and Validation, Risk Management, 

Portfolio Management, Asset and Liability Management

Dave Douglass

Dave Douglass

Bio

Managing Director

Mr. Douglass provides advice in both litigation and business consulting matters requiring specialized financial and economic expertise. He has more than fifteen years of experience in business valuation, analysis of damages in securities litigation, valuation of intellectual property in trademark and patent disputes, loss causation analysis, solvency analysis, and regulatory compliance.

Former

Berkeley Research Group, LLC  - Director

Navigant - Associate Director

Expertise

Business Valuation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust & Competition Policy,  Disputes & Investigations,  Forensic Accounting,  Damages Analysis

Colin L. Schmitt

Colin L. Schmitt

Bio

Managing Director

Colin Schmitt is a seasoned investigator and fraud examiner with over 25 years of distinguished experience in federal law enforcement and private investigations. Retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Mr. Schmitt served as a Special Agent, Supervisory Special Agent, and Unit Chief, specializing in complex financial and healthcare fraud investigations, public corruption, civil rights enforcement, and counterterrorism operations.

Former

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Special Agent-Senior Fraud Investigator, Supervisory Senior Resident Agent

Expertise

Financial Fraud Methods/Scheme, Healthcare Fraud, Money Laundering, Embezzlement, Police/FBI Procedure

Adam Werner

Adam Werner

Bio

Managing Director

Dr. Adam Werner has more than twenty-five years’ experience in litigation consulting, concentrating primarily on security class actions, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, shareholder derivatives and valuation cases. He has provided expert opinions and testified over 50 times in federal, state and bankruptcy courts within the United States.

Former

Crowninshield Financial Research - Expert Witness

Gnarus Advisors/Berkeley Economic Consulting - Director and Expert Witness


Expertise

Securities Class Actions, Damages Estimation, Market Efficiency, Loss Causation, Valuation, Cost of Capital

Martyn Till

Martyn Till

Bio

Managing Director

Martyn Till is a retired senior tax advisor with extensive experience in the UK and international tax landscape, having spent most of his 30-year career at KPMG LLP as a Corporate Tax Advisor. He specializes in the tax aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and mid-market Private Equity transactions.

Former

KPMG LLP - Tax Partner and Senior Tax Manager

HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS - HM Inspector of Taxes

Expertise

Corporate Taxation, M&A Tax Advisory, Private Equity Tax Advisory, UK Direct Taxation, Investigations

Debbie Bigman

Debbie Bigman

Bio

Managing Director

Debbie Bigman has over 36 years of experience in financial product valuation, enterprise risk management and financial reporting. Her deep knowledge in credit, pricing and transaction analysis spans decades of market cycles and disruptions. Debbie has helped banks, specialty lenders, insurance companies, and funds navigate complex challenges arising from market and regulatory driven change.

Former

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP - Partner, Financial Markets Co-Founder

Expertise

Valuation and Governance of Financial Products, Enterprise Risk Management for Financial Transactions and Products, Financial Reporting for Financial Instruments


Matt Sekerke, Ph.D.

Matt Sekerke, Ph.D.

Bio

Managing Director

Matt Sekerke's consulting practice focuses on economic litigation, financial economics, mathematical modeling, and regulatory issues in financial services. He specializes in building and calibrating valuation models for financial instruments, designing market and credit risk management systems, conducting econometric analysis of complex data sets, and applying machine learning and AI in finance. His expertise also covers fixed income, derivatives, and structured finance markets.

Former

Hiddenite Capital Partners - Senior Macro Advisor

PwC - Director

Expertise

Securities Litigation, Complex Securities and Derivatives, Antitrust and Merger Analysis, Economic Damages, Commodity Markets

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