Specialized Litigation Consulting

Complex litigation requires comprehensive and detailed analysis. We understand that each case is unique in its content and challenges. In each instance, we assemble the best and most appropriate team of financial analysts, modelers, academics and econometricians in order to provide innovative solutions and decisive conclusions.

Our Litigation Consulting practice leverages our experience working with a wide range of financial institutions and government agencies across the financial markets with an emphasis on housing finance. Our team of experts includes PhDs, economists, consultants, and CFA charter holders, as well as financial analysts/programmers with experience analyzing, modeling, and forecasting large data sets at clients like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, and the US Treasury.

Our team assists attorneys with analysis in the pre-discovery phase as well as during and post-discovery. We support the development of case strategy, analysis of evidence and data, and drafting expert testimony.We specialize in applying our expertise and experience in advanced financial modeling, analytics, and valuation to provide the clear, credible conclusions required to build strong legal arguments. Our consultants and experts have extensive economic, accounting and industry expertise, with in-depth experience in all aspects of housing finance and the primary and secondary mortgage markets. 

Our firm can help you:

• Perform sample-based loan document reviews to assess the accuracy and completeness of underwriting data
• Review the validity of disclosed assumptions with respect to loan loss, default, and severity assumptions
• Detect risk management limitations and other examples of inadequate internal controls
• Calculate historical and projected degrees of loss severity, default probabilities, and cash flows in portfolios, pools of loans, and securitizations
• Value securities, pools of securities, portfolios, and financial institutions as a whole
• Generate comparable and scenario analyses
• Recreate past performance and compare with actual disclosures
• Benchmark an institution’s financial and operating performance versus its peers
• Qualitatively assess management representations relative to actual past performance
• Perform forensic analysis of financial statements and investor disclosures
• Prepare and review depositions and expert testimony
• Facilitate discovery requests