Representations and Warranties Insurance: Measuring the Loss
How is loss measured under a representations & warranties (R&W) insurance policy? A forensic CPA explains diminution in value, the EBITDA multiple, and the cap.
Right of Publicity Damages: Name, Image, and Likeness
How are right of publicity (name, image, likeness) damages calculated? A forensic CPA explains the license fee, disgorgement, apportionment, and NIL value.
Event Studies and Securities Litigation Damages
How are securities-fraud damages calculated? A forensic CPA explains event studies, the market model, abnormal returns, loss causation, and per-share inflation.
Economic Damages in Wrongful Termination and Employment Cases
How are wrongful termination damages calculated? A forensic CPA explains back pay, front pay, the value of lost benefits, mitigation, and present value.
Trademark and Copyright Infringement Damages
How are trademark and copyright damages calculated? A forensic CPA explains lost profits, infringer’s-profit disgorgement, royalties, and statutory damages.
Patent Infringement Damages: Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalty
How are patent infringement damages calculated? A forensic CPA explains the reasonable-royalty floor, the Panduit lost-profits factors, and apportionment.
Trade Secret Damages: How They Are Calculated
How are trade secret damages calculated? A forensic CPA explains lost profits, unjust enrichment, reasonable royalty, and the head-start doctrine.
Post-Acquisition Disputes: Earn-Outs, Working Capital, and M&A Damages
Post-acquisition M&A disputes: a forensic CPA explains working-capital true-ups, earn-outs, and why a misstated-earnings rep is multiplied by the deal multiple.
Government Contract Lost Profits and Damages
Government contract damages: a forensic CPA explains termination for convenience, equitable adjustments, the FAR cost principles, and recoverable profit.
But-For Causation in Damages: Proving the Defendant Caused the Loss
But-for causation: a forensic CPA explains how to prove the defendant caused the loss — the but-for world, disaggregation, and the post-hoc trap.
Mitigation of Damages in Business Litigation
The duty to mitigate reduces damages by losses a business could reasonably have avoided. A forensic CPA explains the standard, the burden, and the math.
Franchise Litigation Damages: Lost Profits and Lost Value
Franchise litigation damages: a forensic CPA explains franchisee lost profits, lost business value, Item 19, and a franchisor’s lost-royalty claim.