Biography
Mukesh Bajaj is a senior managing director and leader of LECG’s securities practice. He has been a member of the governing board, the management advisory committee of LECG, and a member of its board of directors. He also teaches corporate finance, investments, and financial engineering courses in the MBA and the evening MBA and masters in financial engineering programs at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr Bajaj is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD in finance. He received an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
Dr Bajaj spent seven years as an assistant professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in finance. He has also received several teaching awards and scholastic honors and has published several articles in leading academic and applied journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Research in Finance, Journal of Corporation Law, and Santa Clara Law Review.
Dr Bajaj has managed a variety of consulting and litigation support assignments. His experience includes transfer pricing, securities fraud, valuation of intellectual property, intangible assets, interests in closely held firms, warrants, restricted stock and other complex contingent securities, and purchase price allocation studies. He has also consulted on financial strategy and acquisition analysis.
Dr Bajaj has testified in binding arbitration, the US District Court, Superior Court of California, the State Board of Equalization in California, and the US Tax Court.
Profile Highlights
Professional Experience
- Consulting
- Government Official
- Corporate Executive
- International Engagements
- Academic Professional
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Testimony Experience
- Federal/National
- State/Provincial
- Mediation
- Arbitration
- Oral
- Written
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Representative Engagements
Publications
- 2009, The NUA Benefit and Optimal Investment in Company Stock in 401(K) Accounts
- January 2009, Competition in IPO Underwriting
- 06/2006, A Matrix-based Lattice Model to Value Employee Stock Options
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Employment History
- 1997 to present, LECG Senior Managing Director
- 2007 to present, LECG Member, Executive Management Committee
- University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business Visiting Lecturer
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Education
- 1988, University of California, Berkeley, PhD
- 1987, University of Texas at Austin, MBA
- 1981, Indian Institute of Technology, BS