Appraisal and Valuation Expert Witnesses

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 – Automotive, Commercial Vehicle, RV & Vehicle Appraisal Expert Witness

Steven S. Paul is an automotive and commercial vehicle expert witness with more than 30 years of experience in vehicle inspection, diagnostics, repair, appraisal, failure analysis, and litigation support. As owner and principal of TDT Vehicle Inspection Services, Inc., he provides expert witness and consulting services throughout the United States.

Mr. Paul has personally inspected more than 5,000 automobiles, trucks, buses, recreational vehicles, specialty vehicles, and pieces of equipment. He has prepared more than 1,000 expert reports, technical evaluations, appraisals, and litigation analyses.

His case experience includes automotive repair negligence and improper repairs; mechanical and component failures; dealer and repair facility misrepresentation; lemon law and breach of warranty claims; vehicle condition disputes; diminished value and vehicle valuation; classic, collector, and restored vehicles; commercial trucks and fleet maintenance; recreational vehicle defects; collision and structural repair; vehicle safety and roadworthiness; diagnostic procedures; and repair documentation.

Mr. Paul holds ASE Master Automobile Technician and ASE Master Medium/Heavy Truck Technician credentials, along with additional training in recreational vehicle inspection, structural collision repair, automotive appraisal, and vehicle inspection. His background includes extensive experience in automotive and heavy-duty vehicle repair and diagnostics, as well as instruction in automotive and heavy-duty diesel technology.

He assists attorneys with vehicle inspections, technical analysis, document and repair-invoice review, deposition preparation, expert reports, rebuttal analysis, and testimony.

Primary Areas of Expertise

Automotive and Vehicle Expert Witness
Automotive Repair and Mechanical Failure
Vehicle Failure Analysis and Diagnostics
Commercial Truck and Fleet Maintenance
RV Inspection and Defect Analysis
Lemon Law and Breach of Warranty
Dealer Misrepresentation
Vehicle Appraisal and Diminished Value
Fair Market and Actual Cash Value
Classic, Collector, and Restored Vehicles
Collision and Structural Repair
Repair Facility Standards
Vehicle Safety and Roadworthiness

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:

Gary H. London is a nationally recognized Real Estate Economist, Strategist, and Advisor with decades of experience guiding many of the largest private developers, investors, asset managers, and institutions through complex real estate decisions. As President of The London Group Realty Advisors, he leads a multidisciplinary practice focused on market analysis, development strategy, economic forecasting, and litigation support.

Litigation Support - For over 20 years, Mr. London has served as an expert witness in a myriad of complex real estate-related litigation, offering authoritative analysis, testimony, and strategic insight on behalf of defense and plaintiff. His services include deposition, mediation, and trial testimony as needed.

Areas of Expertise:

• Real Estate Damages - Economic damages, lost profits, project failure analysis, financial impact modeling
• Financial Feasibility and Pro Forma Analysis - Evaluation of development viability, investment feasibility, and project economics
• Market Analysis and Forecasting - Supply/demand studies, absorption analysis, pricing trends, market conditions relevant to legal disputes
• Valuation and Appraisal - Related Matters - Property valuation disputes, highest-and-best-use analysis, development value impacts
• Land Use, Entitlement and Planning Issues - Zoning conflicts, entitlement delays, regulatory impacts, development process standards
• Construction and Development Economics - Delay impacts, cost escalation, development best practices, project management standards
• Real Estate Economics and Financial Analysis - Broader economic interpretation, financial modeling, and industry-standard methodologies

The State of San Diego Real Estate

Gary H. London is an instructor at The Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego School of Business. He also served for 24 years as a lecturer in real estate economics and development at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught graduate-level courses grounded in applied market analysis and feasibility. Mr. London also taught at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, contributing to its nationally recognized real estate programs. Previously, he was West Region Director of Real Estate Consulting for Price Waterhouse and Executive Director of the Goodkin Group.

Mr. London regularly speaks to business and industry organizations. He's also a frequent writer for the San Diego Business Journal and the San Diego Union Tribune.

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.