Appraisal and Valuation Expert Witnesses: 42

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Operating from more than 110+ offices around the globe, we provide services to corporations, insurance companies, law firms, and government agencies. 

Our quantum and delay experts are experienced in the following areas:

Whether the matter relates to construction or insurance, we bring years of valuable industry experience to help our clients limit long and costly formal proceedings. Our experts can operate individually or collaboratively as an integrated team, providing clients with unbiased assessments of construction delays and their cost implications and contract dispute assistance. Backed by evidence and research, Rimkus experts serve as impartial voices, presenting compelling arguments and providing professional testimony that sheds light on the critical intricacies of complex, global issues.

Rimkus Global Services Overview

OUR EXPERT SERVICES EXPERTISE

DELAY EXPERTS

Construction delays can have significant financial implications and lead to strained relationships on a project. Rimkus delay experts understand schedules, project management, and contractual obligations. We can analyze complex timelines, identify causation, measure the effect on the project’s deliverables, and provide expert opinions that stand up to scrutiny in legal proceedings. Our Delay Experts are experienced in the following areas:

• Extension of Time Assessment
• Disruption Analysis
• Project Planning
• 4D Modelling and Visualization

QUANTUM EXPERTS

Quantum disputes require a unique set of skills and expertise. Rimkus’ quantum expert witnesses specialise in evaluating and quantifying the financial loss or damage from a variety of matters, including breaches of contract, valuation issues, or financial loss claims. In addition, our team is often engaged on expert advisory commissions, helping clients build an appropriate commercial strategy to navigate a complicated or contentious issue and assisting the client in achieving its targets. Our quantum specialists are well-versed in all aspects of dispute resolution, whether through litigation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation, or complex negotiation. Several members of the Rimkus quantum team are multilingual, allowing us to help clients from jurisdictions across the globe. Our Quantum Experts are experienced in the following areas: 

• Contract Administration
• Damages Claims 
• Quantity Surveying Best Practice
• Quantum Assessment and Analysis
• Loss and Expense Claims 

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GLOBAL OFFICES

Rimkus operates from 110+ offices worldwide, with headquarters in the following cities.

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Peter John Ingersoll is a distinguished CEO and Corporate Broker for Safe Harbour Equity, Inc., specializing in Cannabis Real Estate and Investment. With over 40 years of experience in investment real estate, construction, development, trust, and banking, Peter's role encompasses a focus on cannabis sector real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and capital advisory services. He has successfully managed complex transactions, capital structures, startup business protocols, and basis transfers.

Litigation Support - As a cannabis thought leader and expert witness, Peter offers services to attorneys for plaintiff and defense for creditor, investor, partner, and founder disputes.

Areas of Expertise:

Background Experience - A former Series 7, 22, and 63 licensee, as well as a Series 65 registered investment advisor, Peter brings a wealth of knowledge in fiduciary responsibilities, real estate and company financing structures, and tax-deferred transactions.

Graduate of Wharton School – University of Pennsylvania – Finance

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Dr. Stan V. Smith is a nationally renowned Economist and Financial Consultant providing analysis in simple terms that any trier-of-fact can understand. As an expert consultant to plaintiff and defense attorneys representing clients in Federal State courts, he provides testimony and litigation support services in evaluating damages. 

Dr. Smith provides Analysis, Testimony, and Litigation Support Services in Evaluating Damages for plaintiff and defense attorneys representing clients in federal and state courts nationwide. His concept of Hedonic Damages is acknowledged by judges, attorneys, and legal journalists as one of the most innovative tort concepts in the last 30 years. He has been interviewed and published in dozens of respected professional journals. Dr. Smith has assisted in the successful resolution of thousands of lawsuits on behalf of clients that include many dozens of the nation's largest law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as thousands of other prominent plaintiff and defense law firms in almost every state. 

Areas of Expertise:

J. Armand Musey, CFA, JD/MBA, founder and president of Summit Ridge Group, LLC, provides expert witness testimony for the Telecom, Media, and Satellite Industries. Mr. Musey is a highly regarded financial analyst with expertise in Asset Valuation, Business Valuation, Financial Analysis of Economic Damages, and Financial Scenario Analysis.

Mr. Musey also has significant experience in corporate governance and investment research practices. He offers litigation support for clients with complex financial analysis or valuation projects. His background also includes Wall Street research methods and practices on behalf of defendants in insider trading cases.

Mr. Musey's industry knowledge, financial expertise, and extensive writing experience allow him to expediently craft well-argued independent written direct testimony documents that withstand scrutiny in depositions and during courtroom cross-examination. Prior expert witness experience and years of communicating with investors of all types have honed his skills at orally communicating his industry knowledge and financial expertise. Moreover, Mr. Musey's legal background facilitates his ability to communicate with legal professionals, understand the legal relevance of case facts, and efficiently read legal documents.

Areas of Expertise Include:

• Industry and Business
  • Broadband Communications
  • Broadcasting
  • FCC Spectrum Licenses (including orbital slot valuation and wireless spectrum valuation)
  • Satellite Communications Industry and Related Media and Telecommunications Topics
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Spectrum
• Financial and Economic
  • Asset Valuation
  • Business Valuation
  • Financial Analysis of Economic Damages
  • Financial Scenario Analysis
• Other
  • Corporate Governance
  • Investment Research Practices - including accepted used of information sources and relationships with company management

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Steven S. Paul, the owner of TDT, is a Mechanic and Automobile Expert responsible for all aspects of the business including marketing, operations, and accounting as well as customer service. He has over 25 years of experience in automotive service, heavy equipment maintenance, and inspection services. 

Mr. Paul is ASE Master Certified in both Automotive and Medium / HD Trucks including engines performance, electrical, driveline, brakes, steering, and suspension as well as safety-related systems. He has inspected over 2,500 vehicles since 2005 ranging from Model T Fords to 2021 BMW & Mercedes. He is qualified to inspect HD Semi Trucks and Construction Equipment as well as RV, Motorhomes, and Campers. Mr. Paul also has inspection experience with Exotic & Luxury High-End Cars as well as Boats and Watercraft. automobile, medium-duty, and heavy-duty truck repair and inspection as well as heavy equipment such as construction and agriculture equipment.

Litigation Support - Mr. Paul is a Certified Vehicle Appraiser and can provide opinions of value based on fair market value, diminished value, and replacement values in accordance with USPAP.  He has been court qualified as an expert vehicle inspector in multiple states as well as federal court. 

Mr. Paul has provided over 500 expert witness reports, provided over 30 depositions, and testified in court over 10 times. He is willing to travel to all 50 states. He has experience in:

 Lemon Law - Misrepresentation and Dealer Operations - Lease Return Inspections - Vehicle Condition Reports

Areas of Expertise:

Richard M. Teichner, CPA, ABV, CVA, MAFF, CFF, CRFAC, CRFAU, DABFA, CGMA, CDFA, licensed in both Nevada and California, has over 45 years of experience in public accounting, and for approximately 25 of those years his areas of practice have been primarily providing expert services and consulting services in business litigation and family law matters. With offices in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada, Mr. Teichner's practice extends to various jurisdictions throughout the United States.  Although Mr. Teichner's services are mainly weighted toward complex business litigation and divorce matters, they also include performing valuations of businesses and business interests for estate tax and gifting purposes and for buy-sell situations. Clients have been both businesses and individuals involved in various industries, such as manufacturing, distribution, retail sales, construction, real estate development, and transportation, and in professional practices, e.g. medical, law and accounting, and other service businesses.

Litigation Matters - Expert services are provided to business litigation and family law litigation attorneys representing either plaintiffs or defendants. Presently, Mr. Teichner has testified 50 times at trial and 47 times at depositions. He has been engaged as a testifying expert or consultant in a variety of complex business litigation and family law matters. Such matters have involved forensic accounting, damages claims; contract disputes; disputes among business owners; fraud, including white collar crime; breaches of fiduciary duty; standards of care; and personal injury and wrongful death.  Family law matters have involved property division, tracing, marital waste, alimony, business valuations, and tax implications of divorce.

Additionally, Mr. Teichner provides receivership services.

Areas of Expertise:

Paul Chandler, MAI, has over 30 years of experience as an MAI Designated Real Estate Appraiser and CEO of Property Sciences, a national Residential and Commercial real estate appraisal company.

Both the company's residential and commercial divisions continually benefit from Mr. Chandler's background in valuation, appraisal, lender-platform technology development, and online and print media. Prior to forming Property Sciences, he was Senior Vice President of Corinthian Real Estate, where he provided financial institutions with market analysis, branching strategy and site acquisition consulting.

Litigation Support - Mr. Chandler has extensive experience presenting and defending its expert conclusions and opinions in depositions and trial testimony.  He offers support from early case assessment and discovery through final resolution, relying on real-world strategic and operational experience, strong academic and professional credentials, and extensive practical knowledge of real estate customs and practices, and damages analysis.

Areas of Expertise:

Services:

• Advice and objective analyses leading to an improved understanding of the issues involved in a case and supply expert testimony about critical issues in the litigation
• Testimony concerning industry standards, customs and practices in order to evaluate the legal liability of the parties
• Forensics analysis to ascertain the facts and determine the historic context of the disputed issues
• Computation of economic effects to provide a court with an objective measure of value and damages, if any
• Advice to counsel including the evaluation of the arguments of opposing experts, assisting with the development of lines of questioning or specific questions for use in expert or percipient witness depositions and serving as real-time advisors to counsel to evaluate the responses of deponents during live deposition testimony
• Trial support services, including jury consulting, graphic design of courtroom visuals and technology support
  

Tim Couch is an authority on livestock valuations, particularly with regard to cattle.  His expertise also includes cattle ranch operational analysis, profit and loss analysis, reproduction and behavior.

Mr. Couch is an accredited member of the International Society of Livestock Appraisers, and with 30 years of formal appraising, he has provided formal valuations of thousands of cattle, both individually and whole herd. For additional information about this expert, contact him anytime.

Bob Kingsbery is a an expert on Livestock Fencing, Livestock Behavior, and Livestock Management. He consults and testifies on cases involving vehicle / livestock collisions, as well as fencing related cases, livestock and horse related injuries, livestock facilities, and all types of livestock fencing and gates.

A lifetime of ranching experience with cattle and horses. Worked for four leading livestock fencing companies. He has written dozens of articles and two books on livestock management & fencing.

Bob Kingsbery has consulted on more than 480 cases and testified more than 125 times in 47 states and Canada.

Henry House has over 20 years of experience providing expertise in Agricultural Science, Management, and Appraisal.  He has worked on over 100 consulting assignments including 50-plus in litigation.  His primary specialty is farm business and rural property.

Mr. House has worked as an Agricultural Economist assisting clients with econometrics problems relating to agriculture, crop losses, lost profits, value disputes concerning rural real property, farm-management issues such as standard of care where a farming accident has occurred. Experienced in sworn testimony.

Jack Holowczak is a Luxury Goods Authentication and Valuation Expert and USPAP-compliant Personal Property Appraiser. As Founding Director of PROVENANCE, he has examined 2,000,000+ items across 50+ luxury houses since 2016 — Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Goyard, Chrome Hearts — with documented counterfeit and superfake detection protocols.

He serves counsel in counterfeit, trademark, insurance, estate, customs, and criminal matters in all U.S. and Canadian jurisdictions. Fees never contingent.

Internationally recognized expert on Firearms History and Values. Consulting, appraisals, expert witness services, and museum exhibit design. Retired director of NRA Museums Division, overseeing 3 national firearms museums & curating NRA's 10,000 gun collection.

Writing & Media - Editor of leading price guide Standard Catalog of Firearms. Author of hundreds of articles and nine firearms books.  200+ national TV appearances as Gun Expert.

Attorney (inactive)  J.D.  AGI certified firearms appraiser.