Finance / Financing Expert Witnesses: 33

Education:

• Princeton, 1964 (B.A., Economics, with honors)
• NYU Business School, 1966 (MBA, Top of class)

Expertise: Mr. Purcell has over 50 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: William H. Purcell has been an Investment Banker for over 50 years. He 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. Mr. Pucell has been a Senior Advisor and Director of Seale & Associates since 2001, an investment bank in the Washington DC area. 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 200 cases with over 180 Law Firms, including cases for the SEC, IRS and the DOJ. Has testified in court trials and arbitration trials over 40 times. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants. Subjects include all areas mentioned above.

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Glenn Bierman founder of Tycon Partners in 1995, boasts a wealth of experience in capital markets matters, as a CEO, COO & Board Director of Public & Private Companies, Investment Banker, and Financial Advisor.

EXPERT WITNESS SERVICES:

• CAPITAL MARKETS
• INVESTMENT BANKING
• IPO
• PUBLIC MARKETS
• SECURITIES
• INVESTMENTS
• FINRA ARBITRATIONS & HEARINGS
• MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS (M&A)
• ARBITRATIONS – JAMS, AAA
• ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS

Richard George is a Banking Expert Witness with 30 years of experience as a Commercial Banker for a global bank with emphasis in commercial real estate underwriting.  Formerly community bank CEO. Twenty-five years as expert witness.  Have Testified at deposition and at trial more than 50 times for major law firm clients.  Have testified for both Plaintiffs and Defendants.

Ideal Client Engagement - Major law firm acting on behalf of major banks in cases involving board-level issues.