Expert Investment Banking Throughout the United States


Based in Bedminster, New Jersey, William H. Purcell Consulting, Inc. provides expert witness testimony and investment banking to attorneys and law firms nationwide in complex cases involving a wide range of investment banking and finance issues.

William H. Purcell has over 50 years experience in almost every area of investment banking, including over 25 years of experience as an expert witness having been retained in over 225 cases. Mr. Purcell has assisted both plaintiffs and defendants in connection with a host of M&A issues and financing matters involving debt or equity, public offerings or private placements, taxable or tax-exempt issues, securitizations, joint ventures, and partnerships. Projects have included:

  • Due Diligence
  • Disclosure
  • Valuations
  • Fairness Opinions
  • Fairness Issues
  • Special Committee Issues
  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Leveraged Buyouts and Recapitalizations
  • Fiduciary Issues
  • Damage Issues and Analysis
  • Bankruptcy Issues, including solvency and fraudulent conveyance
  • Document Interpretation and Standards from the investment banking point of view
  • Fee Issues
  • Financing of Debt and Equity (both public and private, taxable and tax-excempt, including structured financing)
  • Venture Capital
  • Leasing and Real Estate Financing
  • Lender Liability
  • Criminal Cases involving alleged securities violations and insider trading

Mr. Purcell worked for almost 25 years as a Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and is currently a Senior Director at Seale & Associates, a boutique investment bank in the Washington, D.C. area. He has worked on both over 100 M&A transactions and financing transactions as well as over 225 expert cases with over 150 law firms. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in the courts and before mediation and arbitration panels, and has been retained as an expert witness by government regulatory agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the U.S. Attorneys Office.

If you are a lawyer, law firm, or litigation support firm working on a case involving complex investment banking and finance issues, contact William H. Purcell Consulting, Inc. today for expert advice and testimony to help your case succeed.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Due Diligence
  • Disclosure Issues
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Merger process issues
  • Fairness Opinions
  • Entire Fairness M&A Issues
  • Leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations
  • Bankruptcy issues, including fraudulent conveyance
  • Solvency opinions
  • Valuations
  • Advice to Special Committees of Boards
  • Fiduciary issues
  • Fee issues and compensation issues
  • Damage issues and analysis
  • Lender liability
  • Venture capital
  • Leasing and real estate financing
  • Financing transactions of both debt and equity, both public and private, taxable and tax-exempt, including structured financings.
  • MAC and MAE issues
  • Document interpretation from an investment banking point of view
  • Criminal cases involving alleged securities violations, insider trading, and bank fraud
  • Retained as an expert by the SEC, DOJ, and IRS.
  • Over 170 expert cases and retained by over 150 law firms.
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