Securities

LECG securities experts conduct independent analyses on financial issues arising from:

• alleged improper disclosure of corporate information
• insider trading
• market manipulation
• corporate governance matters
• mergers and acquisitions disputes
• securities and capital markets valuations
• securities fraud
• warrants
• restricted stock
• other complex contingent securities

LECG experts integrate facts and statistical analysis with the latest insights from financial economics to prepare insightful reports that assist judges, juries, arbitrators, and mediators. Our experts provide independent opinions regarding liability, causation, and damages.

Our securities experts are former academics, ex-SEC prosecutors, electronic discovery experts, forensic accountants, damages and valuation experts, and nationally known economists who have participated in many of the largest securities matters in the last decade. 

Besides offering highly credentialed experts with significant testifying experience, LECG can also provide access to leading academic scholars who have shaped the field of finance, including several past presidents of the American Finance Association.

Capabilities

• Stock Options Backdating

Main Area Of Expertise

• Analysis of adjustments
• Competitor analysis
• Computer forensics
• Damages models
• Electronic discovery
• Event studies
• Forensic accounting
• Information gathering

Representative Engagements

• Bill Gallagher v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
• Bruce Whitman v. CIBC Oppenheimer Corporation, et al.
• Calvin and Cheryl Kinchen v. UBS PaineWebber, Inc.

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