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

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

Thomas A. Tarter, Managing Director of The Andela Consulting Group, Inc., specializes in providing Management, Financial and Advisory Services Involving Corporate Governance, Management, Compensation, Financial and Banking Matters.

He has served on boards, assisted in corporate restructures and provided advisory services to a diverse group of clients including corporations, law firms, financial institutions and government agencies including the U.S. Small Business Administration. He has been involved in over 700 cases - national and international.

Areas of Expertise:

Bank Operations - check processing, forgery, kiting

Bank Lending Practices and Standards - Commercial and Real Estate Loans

Consumer and SubprimeLending / Credit Damages

Guarranties/Lender Liability

Fair Credit Reporting Act and Collection Practices

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.

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 litigation support and expert witness services to law firms in banking-related matters. He has handled approximately 60 cases as an expert and has provided court-room and/or deposition testimony in more than 15 of these matters.

Expertise: Mr. Feeks has served as an expert in cases involving:

• Commercial and Real Estate Lending
• Loan Approval, Workout and Administration
• Business and Consumer Banking Operations
• Management Policies, Practices and Procedures
• Regulatory Compliance
• Bankruptcies and Frauds

Law Firms Served, include: Bailey Kennedy, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Elliott Reihner Siedzikowski & Egan, Hoagland Longo Moran Dunst & Doukas, Margolis Edelstein, McCarter & English, Scarinci & Hollenbeck, Schenck Price Smith & King, Shearman & Sterling, Shipman & Wright, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf.

Background: 35+ years banking experience. Served major bank in business 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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Joel Finard is an Expert Witness in Financial Services Litigation. He has extensive knowledge of People, Processes and Technology in Financial Services. Mr. Finard has played a key role in many Complex and High Profile Investment Banking Litigations & NASD Arbitrations.

Areas of Expertise

Financial Services Litigation

Complex Structured Transactions - Tax Related Cases

Securities Trading and Pricing, Derivatives, Controls and Hedging

Market & Credit Risk Management

Investment Management

Background: Partner in charge of Deloitte & Touche's Capital Markets Practice - including Litigation Consulting, Financial Risk Management, & Trading Infrastructure. HongKong Bank - Sales & Trading of Securities. Travelers Insurance - Portfolio Manager of Derivatives and Investments. Columbia Business School - Taught Economics

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Over 27 years securities and expert experience, formal AIFA fiduciary training.

The expert who wrote a major Wall St broker dealers' compensation plan, accounting manual, margin account, money market mutual fund sweep policy, customer account surveillance compliance reports and designed one of the first structured products in the 1980s.

FiduciaryFORENSICS examines all parties and transactions. Fiduciary performance, breach of fiduciary duty, liability, damages analysis, model portfolio, recovery. Rule 405, Suitability, Supervision, Failure to diversify, Taxes, Asset Allocation, Hedge Funds, Private Placements, RMBS, CDO's, CDS, Disclosure, ADVs.

Compensation, Valuation training, recruit, retirement, raiding, termination, customer account distribution, payment for order flow, order flow profit, broker dealer or branch profit analysis, U5 or U4 issues in employment matters.

FINRA (NASD) securities Arbitration; Trust, Estate, Probate; ERISA defined benefit pension 401k & Profit Sharing plans; Charities, Not for Profits, Foundations, Endowments and Divorce, Marital Settlements, QDROs.

Additional Areas of Expertise - Compensation, Training, Employment

Stock broker, Series 7 licensees, Financial planner, CFP's, Supervisors, Branch manager, Regional and national Executives, Product Managers, External product Wholesalers, Product Coordinators, Traders, Stock Loan, Securities Lending, Prime Broker, Margin, Structured Products, Principal Protected products.

Branch and Regional P&L analysis, valuation, Product Marketing, Distribution, Sales Force and Market Penetration Studies.

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Craig A. Wolson acts as a Structured Finance and Derivatives Expert Witness and Consultant. He specializes in cases involving credit default swaps (CDS), collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other types of derivatives and securities.

Background Experience Includes:

Acting on behalf of 40,000 investors in $1.6 billion class action suit against bankrupt sponsor of special purpose issuer of notes secured by notes issued by CDO and credit default swaps with sponsor; acting on behalf of class led by two major pension funds against a major bank and numerous large underwriters involving mortgage-backed securities issued by several vehices established by the bank, and securities issued by the bank; acting on behalf of large investment bank defendant in arbitration proceeding brought by another large investment bank involving nine CDOS established by defendant; acting on behalf of large bank that had invested in now-worthless notes issued by SIV established by defendant banks; acting on behalf of large bank against another large bank that had sold the former CDOs and CDS.

Areas of Expertise:

Securitizations - Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs); collateralized bond obligations (CBOs); collateralized loan obligations (CLOs); asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) programs; structured investment vehicle (SIV) programs; securitized credit-linked notes, equipment leases, railroad license agreements, and auto loans; and obligations of certified capital companies

Derivatives - Credit default swaps (CDS)

Carlo Scevola & Partners is an International Fiduciary Company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with branches in six continents. We specialize in International Planning, Strategic Consulting and Wealth Management.

Our clients trust us for everything from setting up an Offshore Company to Mergers and Acquisitions to Business Finance and Asset Protection. CS&P’s customer-centric methodology ensures that each client gets a custom-tailored solution which addresses that business’ individual objectives and requirements.

Our team has expertise in every functional category and every important geography. From finance to operations to human resources to marketing – from the Americas to Europe to Africa, Asia and Oceania – CS&P can bring together experienced executives who know how to advise you and will make your enterprise a success. All this while always protecting your privacy.

Services Offered:

Business and Strategic Consulting

S.W.O.T. Analysis

Pre-investment Feasibility Studies / Competitive Background Assessments

Business Plan Research, Writing and Production

Strategy Definition / Implementation

Reworking of Operating Processes for International Suitability

Industrial Partnership Scouting / Matching

Tailor Business Model to Market Environment, Jurisdiction and Local Authorities Requirements

Corporate Finance:

Mergers, Acquisitions and CessionsCommercial Due Diligence or Investment / Financial Appraisals

Company Reorganization and Restructuring

Financial Feasibility Plans for Industrial Expansion

Scouting / Recruiting Highly Qualified Financial Management

Exit Strategies in the event of Buy-outs, Buy-ins, Spin-offs or MBOs, MBIs and LBOs

Listing on Stock Exchanges

Offshore Consulting:

International Tax Planning

Corporate Structuring, Maintenance and Trusts

International Contracts Law

Jurisdictions

Residency and Citizenship

International Banking

Logistic Support

Government Licenses

Aircrafts and Vessels

Intellectual Property

CS&P Operates In More Than 80 Countries Around The World.