SAMPLE ENGAGEMENTS : FINANCE
Finance
- Currently engaged by counsel for the defense to provide economic and financial analysis to a large bank involved in a dispute regarding the bank’s involvement in a loan syndicate. The dispute is related to the cable television industry.
- Performed econometric and financial analyses for the defendants in a large, securities class action case involving initial public offerings.
- Calculated damages in a large 10B-5 litigation involving a document management technology and service company.
- Assess the real property value of a Hawaiian hotel involved in a bankruptcy related dispute.
- Engaged to provide damages analysis in a large 10B-5 litigation involving a defunct energy company.
- Engaged to provide damages analysis in a 10B-5 litigation involving a defunct broadband company.
- Quantified damages for defense counsel in a large securities class action case involving a bankrupt energy company.
- Performed damages analysis in a 10B-5 litigation involving a medical device firm.
- Engaged by counsel for the defense to provide liability and damages opinions relative to a securities litigation involving derivative financial instruments.
- Calculated damages and performed economic analyses related to a post acquisition dispute in the oil field services business.
- Assessed mutual fund trading activities of alleged market timers and late traders for the SEC.
- Engaged by the state of Texas to assist in analyzing proposed legislation regarding investment disclosure requirements.
- Conducted damages analysis related to a post-merger dispute between a large express mail company and two of its European affiliates.
- Assessed damages associated with breach of a natural gas processing and purchase contract. Determined well connection costs, well deliverability, well capacity, and compression maximums. Also, analyzed gains to producers from gaming nominations to pipelines.
- Conducted damage analyses related to alleged 10B5 securities violations by a large waste industry company.
- Assessed stock and future earn out damages associated with claims of fraud and misrepresentations related to an acquisition of consumer car care products.
- Calculated damages resulting from the withholding of restricted securities in association with an acquisition of a Phase I/Phase II biotechnology firm.
- Engaged to calculate personal injury damages due to a small business owner as a result of an automobile accident.
- Retained by counsel in a multi-year assignment on behalf of an international grain trading company in class action litigation involving an alleged corner in the soybean markets. Also retained in a related regulatory investigation. Work involved complex data reconstruction of thousands of multi-legged spot, forward, futures, options, and CIF/FOB market transactions. Client prevailed against charges in regulatory investigations; class actions settled favorably.
- Assisted a U.S. commodity trading company in a $150 million IRS audit involving the tax treatment of future and options hedges. Work involved recreating certain modeling/trading strategies of thousands of transactions. Client settled for an advantageous amount.
- Assisted an international grain company and its broker/dealer subsidiary on a multi-year assignment pertaining to multidistrict litigation involving the alleged arbitrage of government securities, repurchase agreements, and commodity and financial futures. Reconstructed trading records and created databases to test hypotheses of fictitious, fraudulent, prearranged, and tax-motivated trading on customer accounts. Assisted in settlement discussions with hundreds of clients. In first trial of MDL, jury awarded approximately $140 million in favor of client. Other related matters subsequently resolved favorably by client.
- Retained by finance arm of automobile manufacturer to support discovery and expert reports pertaining to claims of alleged lending discrimination by its dealer network. Work included construction of an analytical dataset to support the statistical analysis of tens of thousands of financing applications and transactions.
- Assisted the trust department of a diversified financial institution in litigation involving the run of a real-estate fund. Modeled effects of participants’ net asset values under various redemption scenarios and assisted audit team in developing appropriate financial statement disclosures. Financial institution resolved matter for favorable amount.
- Retained by counsel of a trading and clearing exchange in response to an enforcement action against its internal audit division. Advised on sufficiency of audit procedures performed on futures commission merchants given regulatory requirements. Matter settled favorably with regulators. Later retained to advise audit department on methods to improve execution on future audits.
- Retained by international accounting firm in its defense of an audit of a broker/dealer which engaged in alleged sham government securities transactions that conferred tax losses on clients. Work involved analysis of trading transactions, re-estimation of tax liabilities and analysis of damages.
- Assisted outside counsel of an investment bank in the production of millions of documents related to a massive governmental investigation of insider trading pertaining to junk bonds.
- Retained by financial institution to perform investigation of a futures commission merchant to test compliance with certain debt covenants. Subsequently retained to perform a high-level business diagnostics review of the FCM to identify opportunities to enhance revenue and reduce costs.
- Assisted counsel in multi-year assignment defending an international trading company in its regulatory reporting of cash and futures positions with the CFTC.
- Derivation of the internal rate of return (IRR) in a dispute over the carried interest in a niche real property operator.
- Calculated the true (effective) rate of interest in a case of alleged usury.
- Calculated the internal rate of return in a private equity investment with apparent multiple returns.
CAREERS
Careers
FSG is a national expert services firm that offers exciting and challenging careers to exceptional achievers in the fields of economics, finance and accounting. We are passionate about providing the highest quality consulting services to our clients, and we seek similarly dedicated professionals who can thrive in our collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment. If working alongside academic thought leaders and experienced industry professionals to solve complex and diverse real-world problems sounds interesting to you, we invite you to click on the appropriate category to explore the opportunities at our firm and to hear what our consultants say about working at FSG.
FSG is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law. Applicants must possess the requisite qualifications for the position to be considered for employment.
PRACTICE AREAS
Practice Areas
FSG provides independent and objective consulting and expert services in the six primary practice areas listed to the left. Click on any practice area to learn more about our services in that area.
Our practice areas and professionals are organized in much the same way that leading business schools are organized. All of our experts are colleagues in a single “faculty”, but also belong to departments or practice areas focusing on key business functions and activities. Within each practice area, we have both full-time employee experts with years of consulting and industry experience – most with MBAs, CPAs, CFAs, PhDs, or similar credentials and degrees – and affiliated academic experts who are recognized leaders in their respective fields.
Organizing our practice areas and professionals in this way gives FSG both depth and breadth. Professionals in each practice area understand the types of data and analytic methods commonly employed in their areas, know the academic literature and business research relevant to their areas, and keep abreast of important recent developments. At the same time, we can meet clients’ needs across the full range of business issues that arise in any of our practice areas, including multidisciplinary issues that cut across business functions and activities.
SAMPLE ENGAGEMENTS
Sample Engagements
FSG experts have worked on hundreds of litigation matters across a wide array of industries and practice areas. To view a small sample of our past engagements, please click on one of the practice area buttons to the left.
FSG is always happy to provide references and client testimonials upon request.
FSG UNIVERSITY
FSG University
FSG is home to some of the most prominent and prolific thought leaders in the fields of accounting, economics, finance, intellectual property, marketing and valuation, and we are committed to sharing our intellectual capital with others. Accordingly, we invite you to peruse FSG University; the portion of our website dedicated to providing access to the books, articles, publications and teachings of our outstanding expert consultants and academic affiliates. At FSG University, you can access our leading edge thinking on important business issues, learn about the continuing legal education (CLE) courses offered by our experts, and browse through our upcoming events.
If you are interested in a specific topic or would like a customized CLE program for your firm, please contact us at inforequest@finsch.com . We would be delighted to assist you in any way we can.
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