4structures.com, LLC Settlement Consulting and settlement planning services. Structured settlements, structured sales, structured celebrity endorsement fees, structured settlement annuity brokerage and the placement of related products as part of innovative applications and periodic payment solutions for the resolution of complex litigation claims in jurisdictions throughout the USA and on select projects outside of the USA.



FINRA Series 7 63 and 66

Ins. Licenses held in AL AZ CA CO CT DE FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV & DC.

Education:

Princeton, 1964 (B.A., Economics, with honors)

NYU Business School, 1966 (MBA, Top of class)

Expertise: Mr. Purcell has over 40 years of experience in every area of investment banking including the following:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Leveraged Buyouts and Recapitalizations

Fairness Opinions and Fairness Issues

Adequacy Opinions

Solvency Opinions

Bankruptcy issues, including fraudulent conveyance

Valuations

Advice to Special Committees of Boards

Due Diligence and Disclosure Issues

Fiduciary Issues

Damage issues and analysis

Lender Liability

Fee issues

Document Interpretation and Standards from investment banking point of views

Criminal cases involving alleged securities violations and insider trading

Financing of Debt and Equity (both public and private, taxable and tax-exempt, including structured financings)

Venture Capital

Leasing and Real Estate Financing

Background: Mr. Purcell was a Managing Director at Dillon Read for almost 25 years and has been a Senior Advisor to a number of medium-sized investment banks. He also has served as interim CEO of a public company and has served on Boards of Directors. Mr. Purcell is currently Senior Director to the Investment Banking Firm of Seale & Associates, Washington, DC. area.

Mr. Purcell has been an expert in more than 100 cases with over 100 Law Firms, including cases for the SEC and the I.R.S. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants. Subjects include all areas mentioned above.

MCS Associates is a nationally recognized consulting group that has provided financial, operations and regulatory/compliance consulting services nationwide to financial institutions, insurance companies and regulatory agencies as well as real estate and financial services organizations for over 30 years.

Expert Witness and Litigation Consulting are a primary focus of our services. We undertake expert witness assignments throughout the United States and our clients include several hundred leading law firms around the country, working on behalf of both plaintiff and defendant financial institutions, borrowers, depositors, investors, developers, insurance companies and their insured, securities/insurance/real estate brokers/agents, regulators and government agencies, and individuals.

Together with MCS Associates’ specialized resources in banking, financial services and real estate, we also draw on key strategic alliances in insurance, economics, academia and the securities industry to meet a wide range of expert witness needs. Our litigation experts include experienced bankers, lenders, consultants, regulators, managers, brokers & agents in insurance, real estate, and securities; insurance claims and underwriting managers; economists, accountants, appraisers, real estate analysts, and academics.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Banking Operations/Administration

Check Fraud

Lending Policies, Custom and Practice

Loan Underwriting & Credit Administration

Sub Prime Loan Originations, Underwriting, Securitizations & Servicing

Bankruptcy, Foreclosures and Workouts

Trust & Fiduciary Issues / Operations

Securities Brokerage & Investments

Valuations & Damages Analysis

Forensic Accounting

Employment / Compensation

Real Estate Brokerage & Management

Title Insurance & Escrow

Real Estate Appraisal & Transactions

Insurance Industry Custom & Practice

Insurance Coverages / Claims Handling

Insurance Bad Faith

Ahern Consulting Group

Ahern Consulting's mission is to ensure that our clients achieve and sustain the highest level of financial and operational excellence.

Ahern Consulting provides guidance to all health care providers, including physician groups and hospitals. We are experts with respect to general Medicare and Health Care Billing & Payment issues with a sub-specialization in reimbursement for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) dialysis facility and Nephrology services.

Ahern Consulting assists investors, medical device and pharmaceutical manufactures and other interested parties with understanding the healthcare market and how it is influenced by the consumer and provider preference, the regulatory environment and healthcare reform.

Types of Services Offered

Health Care Facility & Physician Reimbursement Audits

Management Consulting for Renal Dialysis Facilities

Medicare Cost Report Preparation

ESRD PPS Expanded Bundle Payment Optimization

Dialysis Facility Feasibility Studies

Healthcare Market Analysis

Primary Market Studies

Dispute Resolution and Litigation Support

Informative Presentations on Health Care Reimbursement & Reform

JACK AHERN, MBA - As a seasoned Health Care Executive, Instructor, Author and Financial Manager, Jack Ahern brings to the table expertise gained by managing finances for an academic medical center, and providing guidance to physicians, hospitals, HMO’s and major academic medical centers on issues pertaining to physician and hospital billing, hospital administration, strategic planning, renal dialysis reimbursement, HIPAA, ethics, regulatory issues and compliance.





Areas of Expertise:

Physician / Hospital Billing

CMS Regulations

ESRD and Nephrology Reimbursement

Health Care Market Studies

Medicare

Health Care Reform

Medicaid / Medi-Cal

Valuation of Health Care Entities

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John Busey Wood focuses his practice on Commercial and Retail Leasing and Construction Real Estate. He advises public and private companies on Real Estate Acquisitions, Facilities Management and Standardization, Construction and Development, Brokerage Law, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Property Management, and Litigation. Mr. Wood has represented owners in the design and negotiation of commercial leases covering in excess of 50 million square feet of retail, office, and mixed-use space projects for thirty years and in 1998 structured and closed the largest lease of an existing commercial building in the history of New York City exceeding 2 Million square feet.

His extensive national experience in developable land, improved property acquisitions, large scale retail and office developments, large project "fast-track" design-build construction, and leasing and management programs have made him an ideal corporate facilities support resource for companies. He is a noted authority on fair market value determinations, lease restructuring and re-negotiations as well as rental escalations, expenses, allocations, auditing, and litigation/dispute resolution.

Mr. Wood was named the "Father of the modern Killer Lease" in 1984 by the Wall Street Journal. His financing, auditing, and computer expertise contributed to his uncovering the largest computer leasing fraud in the United States. Mr. Wood is a member of the American Arbitration Association Commercial Neutral Panel.

Faye Albert is an expert Actuary and Legal Consultant with a combination of analytical and business skills achieved through rigorous study. Her experience allows her to improve decisions by developing quantitative financial measures of uncertain future events. Ms. Albert provides actuarial consulting to insurance companies, government agencies and lawyers.

Ms. Albert has years of experience assisting clients with: Expert Opinions, Rate Filings, Claims Analysis and Compliance Support, Reserve Projections, Underwriting Analysis and Company Valuations. She also provides litigation support, which addresses estimating the financial impact of contingent events that lend themselves to actuarial analysis, involving contingencies of life, death & health changes.

Experience & Services include:

• Life Insurance Company Management
• Health Insurance Pricing & Filing
• Financial Contracts, Bonds, Life Insurance, Mortgages
• Continuing Care Retirement

Analytic Focus specializes in Financial, Economic, Demographic, and Statistical Research. We're Ph.D.s with decades of experience working in academia, industry, and Federal agencies. We provide exceptional value in interpretation of data, insight regarding business problems, and scholarship on best practices.

We estimate numbers needed for the best representation of your client. We evaluate flaws in analyses underpinning your arguments or your opponents. We've testified in Federal & State courts.

Complex Litigation
Antitrust, Deceptive Sales Practices, Securities & Lost Sales

Banking & Finance
Misrepresentation & Fraud, Securitizations, Regulation

Insurance & Reinsurance
Breach of Contract, Risk & Pricing Issues

Environmental/Mass Tort
Validity of Claims, Damages & Volume of Claims Forecasting

Class Actions and Class Certification
Commonality, Predominance, Mass Valuation

Fair Housing, Fair Lending, Labor & Employment
Discrimination & Disparate Impact

Intellectual Property
Trade Mark, Trade Dress, Patent Infringement
Confusion, Dilution, Lost Profits, Diverted Sales

Profile: 43+ yrs experience in financial, mortgage & business institutions including 17+ President, CEO & Director & 6+ director of a mortgage company. 15+ years of leadership/ directorships in national & state trade associations. Over 375 federal & state nationwide cases i for FDIC, FannieMae, financial institutions, mortgage companies, businesses, non-banks, individuals. Services provided: consulting, depositions, reports, affidavits & court testimonies.

Expertise: Financial Institutions, Mortgage Institutions, Business, Real Estate. Loans (mortgage,construction, real estate, business, SBA, international, consumer, etc.); Operations; Fraud; Check ops; EFT; Lender Liability; Policy & Procedures; Fiduciary Duties, D & O conduct, Other. Reports, depositions & court testimony in Federal, Bankruptcy & state courts.

375+ nationwide cases working both for defendants and plaintiffs.

16+ years of in-house, industry, and outside expert witness experience.

75+ depositions taken and 35+ court appearances in both Federal and state courts.

Clients: FannieMae, FDIC, ABN AMRO Mortgage, Viacom, Wells Fargo Bank, State of CA, Bank of America, Amex, Citicorp Mortgage, Washington Mutual, Viacom, Bank One, Long Beach Mortgage, EMC Mortgage, JPMorganChase Bank, PacifiCare, Beal Bank, Avnet, Fidelity Title & First American Title

Approximately 40% of cases are for financial institutions, 40% against financial institution and 20% are other.

Serving clients nationally— 50% plaintiffs and 50% defendants.

Resume, fee information and references provided on request.

Alistair Hynd has over 15 years experience in Corporate Finance. He heads the Project Finance and Financial Modelling Team that functions at Baker Tilly Corporate Finance, LLP (Baker Tilly). Mr. Hynd specialises in Project Finance, PFI, PPP and Debt Advisory plus Financial Modeling. Mr. Hynd is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and member of the Institute's Corporate Finance faculty. He is also a full member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Mr. Hynd's team at Baker Tilly can become involved in Project Finance or Financial Modeling in three ways:

Financial Adviser to the Government – structuring projects, evaluating bids, and negotiating detail

Financial Adviser to the Consortium – assembling the bid, refining and optimising it, and acting as interface with funding markets

Acting for the Banks and other Lenders - providing reassurance that the model on which they are lending is fit for purpose.

Other Services Include

Capital Markets: Reporting Accountants, Flotation e.g. advice on Financial Structuring, Accounting Systems and Policies, Share Option, Director / Employer Benefits, Audit and Taxation services

Due Diligence: Historic Performance, Cash Flows, Assets and Liabilities, Forecasts, Working Capital Requirements, Financial Systems and Controls, Taxation

Mergers and Acquisitions / Private Equity:Preparing / Maximise Value from Business Sales, Negotiate Terms and Raise Private Equity / Debt Finance to Support Management Buy Out or Buy In, Raising Private Equity / Debt Finance for Growth, Cash Out or Recapitalisation, etc.

Valuations: Shares, Businesses, Options and Warrants, Various Derivatives, Brands and other Intellectual Property, Film and Media Rights,Income Producing Assets

Offices:
150 Allen Road, Suite 100 Liberty Corner, NJ 07938	8 Kate's Lane Boxford, MA 01921

Profile: J. Michael Feeks, one of the founders of Bank Experts Group, provides consulting services to banks and bank clients, and litigation support and expert witness services to law firms.

Services to Financial Institutions:

• Turnaround Strategies
• Crisis Management and Recovery
• Regulatory Relationships
• Loan Review, Administration and Workout
• Management Policies, Practices and Procedures

Services to Bank Clients:

• Loan Workout, Refinancing
• Re-negotiation of Business and Commercial Real Estate Loans

Services to Law Firms:

• Litigation Support and Expert Witness Services
• Consultation and Testimony in Commercial and Real Estate Lending, Business and Consumer Banking Operations and Management, and Bankruptcies and Frauds

Background: 35+ years banking experience. 10+ years consulting experience. Served major bank in lending, branch operations and management. Served community banks as president, director and other senior positions. MBA – New York University. Graduate – Manhattan College and Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Bank Experts Group is a consulting firm that provides litigation support in banking-related matters and specialized assistance to banks and other financial institutions. The principals are experienced former bankers, regulators and educators with extensive experience in bank management.

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