AlixPartners’ professionals provide litigation consulting to companies and their counsel in high stakes situations involving securities fraud and compliance. We have testified as expert witnesses and advised clients and their counsel in every facet of securities litigation, including class actions, derivative and shareholder lawsuits, corporate investigations, and inquiries by regulators.
Our professionals draw upon investigative and analytical capabilities to uncover the facts behind transactions and financial and other data. Our teams leverage deep courtroom experience to advise audit committees, boards of directors, trustees and officers in connection with litigation involving equities, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, stock options, and over-the-counter derivatives. Specifically, we assist by:
- Assisting counsel in evaluating and defending corporations and their officers and committees in criminal matters before regulators and governmental enforcement bodies, including the SEC, DOJ, PCAOB, and industry, federal and state regulators
- Preparing expert reports for trial and regulatory bodies and drafting submissions to regulatory bodies
- Drafting and developing court filings and documents including discovery requests and questions for witnesses
- Preparing witnesses for testimony at depositions and trial
- Analyzing accounting and other records, compiling and managing large databases, and retrieving and preserving electronic evidence to support civil and criminal trials
- Quantifying damages via rigorous analytical examinations of liability and damage claims and valuations of debt instruments, options, and complex derivatives
We advise and testify in cases that involve:
- Financial fraud
- Embezzlement
- Inadequate disclosure
- Fraudulent transactions
- Earnings manipulation
- Accounting fraud
- Securities trading
- Insider trading
- Commercial lending
- Securities valuations
- Illegal trading and market making
- “Soft dollar” relationships
- Financial statements
- Accounting transactions
- Financial reporting irregularities