„One of the most important decisions you will make with regards to the outcome of your case is the choice of an expert witness providing clear, robust and independent opinions.“
Expert Witness / Conflict Resolution
For many years, several courts and law-firms have used our conflict resolution service, independent expert reports and expert witness services, specialized in derivatives, structured products and long-term investment plans. We are unique as we combine academic rigor with capital markets experience.
Our Services:
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Portfolio analysis (also intra-day) |
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Quantification of Losses |
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Sourcing and processing of market data |
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Product classification, ISDA, documentation of OTC transactions |
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Explanation of market standards: valuation, trading, back-office, risk advisory |
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Explanation of functionality of trading and risk management systems |
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Validation of financial market patents |
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Project coordination |
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Quality assessment of scientific project proposals |
Current projects:
Expert witness at the Canadian court
between Canadian tax payers and Her Majesty the Queen about option- and forward based trading strategies, 2018-2019.
Expert report for Lalive Switzerland
in a litigation between an FX Derivatives Trading firm and a Swiss market making bank for EUR-TRY options valuation and trading, 2019.
Expert at Commercial Court Vienna
for the case of the City of Linz against BAWAG about the Swap 4175. 2014-2019
Completed projects:
Conflict resolution between a large German retail bank and a rating agency concerning a valuation of an equity basket linked certificate, 2007
Expert report on SPAN (Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk) and its application to a large portfolio of futures and options in several asset classes, Netherlands, 2010
Expert witness at the Commercial Court London for a force-close of a portfolio of exotic currency derivatives; expert for Clifford Chance, London, 2010-2011
Expert report for a patent of automated calculation of bid-offer prices of exotic currency options, for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, 2011
Expert witness at SIAC (Singapore International Arbitration Center) for force-close and quality of risk advisory concerning a large portfolio of exotic options and structured products (Kikos, Tarfs, Accumulators), 2011-2013
Expert report on the project „implied volatility surfaces, local volatility models and low dimensional hedging strategies for arithmetic and geometric baskets“ for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2012
Expert witness at the Commercial Court London in an 8 billion USD case on ISDA-classification and risk calculations for FX target forwards and other derivatives, expert to Travers Smith, 2012-2013
Expert witness at the Commercial Court London for the valuation of Nikkei index options after the Lehman bankruptcy, expert for Taylor Wessing LLP, 2013-2014
Public trustee on non-life insurance contracts, statistical verification of the valuation procedure and comparison to German standards, 2013-2014
Expert report on portfolio optimization of a derivatives portfolio of the city of Salzburg in connection with a law suit, 2014
Expert report for the Commercial Court Munich on the valuation of interest rate swaps and self-quanto swaps, 2015
Expert report on the promotion of a faculty member with assessment of the research work (performance of option pricing models) for the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2015
Expert report on the project “robust numerical schemes for pricing of selected options under various market conditions” for the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 2015
Expert report on the change of law for municipalities‘ loans in foreign currency for the Ministry of Inner Affairs and Sports of the state of Hessen, 2015
Expert witness at the court of Salzburg supporting the cross examination of the expert report of the prosecutor concerning the transfer of structured interest rate swaps from City of Salzburg to the State of Salzburg (Salzburg financial scandal), 2017
Expert witness at arbitration on the Philippines between the national bank and an Australian software vendor about the introduction of its treasury management application, 2017
Expert Witness at Commercial Court Singapore about the force-close and risk advisory quality of a portfolio with more than 500 exotic options, 2013-2017
Expert report for Clifford Chance supporting a bank in its appeal against a penalty payment issued by the German exchange for alleged insider-trading, 2018-2019
Valuation of a life-insurance contract for the court of Baden-Baden, 2019
Expert report for the department of public prosecution in Rostock
How a floan (FX-loan) went under water, and how risks were managed, 2020