Bankruptcy and valuation expert witnesses

Expert class library · 4 classes

The valuation experts in appraisal, fiduciary-duty, solvency and bankruptcy disputes: discounted cash flow, deal-price and fairness analysis, solvency and real estate.

Each class is defined by role and method, never by a person or a firm. Open one for what it is retained to answer, how its testimony is attacked under Rule 702, and the rulings, each read in the opinion.

Retained by either side

DCF business valuation expert

Discounted cash flow analysis · Comparable company multiples

Solvency expert

Balance sheet test · Cash flow test

Real estate appraiser

Sales comparison approach · Income capitalization approach

Valuation and fairness-opinion economist

Discounted cash flow analysis · Comparable companies and guideline public company multiples

Recent rulings

The 12 most recent of 13 rulings in this practice, newest first. Each links to the free opinion on CourtListener and to the class it belongs to.

OutcomeCaseCourtExpert class
Exclusion reversedMountain Valley Pipeline, LLC v. 0.32 Acres of Land127 F.4th 4374th Cir. 2025Real estate appraiser
ExcludedJacobs v. Akademos, Inc.C.A. No. 2021-0346-JTLDel. Ch. 2024Valuation and fairness-opinion economist
LimitedManichaean Capital, LLC v. SourceHOV Holdings, Inc.C.A. No. 2017-0673-JRSDel. Ch. 2020Valuation and fairness-opinion economist
AdmittedZachman v. Real Time Cloud Services, LLCC.A. No. 9729-VCGDel. Ch. 2020Valuation and fairness-opinion economist
ExcludedKortright Capital Partners LP v. Investcorp Investment Advisers Ltd.392 F. Supp. 3d 382S.D.N.Y. 2019DCF business valuation expert
LimitedAcosta v. Vinoskey310 F. Supp. 3d 662W.D. Va. 2018DCF business valuation expert
AdmittedUnited States v. An Easement & Right-Of-Way Over 1.58 Acres of Land343 F. Supp. 3d 1321N.D. Ga. 2018Real estate appraiser
ExcludedWeinman v. Crowley (In re Blair)588 B.R. 605Bankr. D. Colo. 2018Solvency expert
AdmittedNewman v. Associated Bank, National Ass'n (In re World Marketing Chicago, LLC)574 B.R. 670Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2017Solvency expert
LimitedIn re Sabine Oil & Gas Corp.555 B.R. 180Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2016Valuation and fairness-opinion economist
ExcludedUnited States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. 1.72 Acres of Land821 F.3d 7426th Cir. 2016Real estate appraiser
AdmittedBuchwald v. Renco Group539 B.R. 31S.D.N.Y. 2015Solvency expert

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