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Jennifer S. Conrad

Jennifer Conrad researches investments and finance, focusing on asset pricing, capital markets, institutional investing, and portfolio management. Professor Conrad serves as an expert on investment issues, market efficiency, loss causation, and damages in Rule 10b-5 and Section 11 securities class actions. She has extensive experience in ERISA matters alleging excessive fees, inappropriate investments, and class certification.

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Mark J. Garmaise

Mark Garmaise is a corporate finance expert specializing in banking, entrepreneurship, financial contracting, real estate, and securities. Professor Garmaise has testified in high-profile cases involving breach of contract, valuation, and damages. In Rule 10b-5 securities class actions and related opt-out matters, he has provided expert testimony on class certification and merits issues, including market efficiency, price impact, loss causation, and damages.

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Paul A. Gompers

Paul Gompers testifies in securities and valuation cases in a variety of industries. Professor Gompers has addressed issues of the valuation of public and private companies, loss causation, factors affecting public company securities prices, market efficiency, and the custom and practice of venture capital and private equity organizations. He has served as an expert witness in high-profile cases, including a rare securities class action trial, in which he testified on loss causation, damages, and disclosures.

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Steven R. Grenadier

Steven Grenadier testifies in Rule 10b-5 and Section 11 securities class actions in federal and state courts on issues of loss causation and damages. Professor Grenadier has also testified as an expert in investments and derivatives cases in which he has addressed disclosure, suitability, and valuation issues. He is a senior financial economist with Financial Engines, and a former director of Nicholas-Applegate Institutional Funds, AQR Funds, and E*Trade.

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Terrence Hendershott

Terrence “Terry” Hendershott is a recognized authority on market microstructure, market manipulation, and the structure of financial markets. Professor Hendershott has extensive securities litigation testifying experience, including in depositions, arbitrations, and trials. His consulting and testifying experience encompass U.S. and international financial markets, including equities, exchange-traded funds, corporate and government debt, commodities, foreign exchanges, futures, and other products. He researches the design, regulation, and structure of stock exchanges, electronic communications networks, and OTC markets.

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Colleen Honigsberg

Colleen Honigsberg is a professor at Stanford Law School, where she teaches courses in accounting, corporate governance, and securities law. Professor Honigsberg’s research focuses on the empirical study of corporate and securities law, including topics related to corporate and investor misconduct, accounting, and ESG. Her work has been published in leading academic and legal journals. In addition to serving on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, Professor Hongsberg is Faculty Co-Director of Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance and a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR).

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Amy P. Hutton

Amy Hutton is an expert in securities, financial statement analysis, corporate governance, and business valuation. Professor Hutton testifies and consults on class certification, price impact, damages, and financial accounting issues in Rule 10b-5 and Section 11 securities class action matters and regulatory investigations. As a result of her research, she was named to the Congressional Review Board, opining on the Security Industry Association’s “best practices for equity research.”

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Jennifer Marietta-Westberg

Jennifer Marietta-Westberg addresses financial reporting, asset management, trading, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions allegations. An experienced expert witness, Dr. Marietta-Westberg testifies on matters related to Rule 10b-5 and Section 11 securities class actions. She has chaired the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and worked for ten years in various capacities at the SEC.

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Douglas J. Skinner

Douglas Skinner is a leading authority on financial reporting and disclosure, capital markets, corporate finance, and valuation. Professor Skinner, an experienced expert witness, has testified on numerous corporate finance–related and Rule 10b-5 and Section 11 matters, both in deposition and at trial. He researches various subjects related to corporate finance, financial accounting, and corporate governance, including the capital market effects of corporate disclosures and financial reporting.

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David C. Smith

David Smith specializes in corporate finance and restructuring. Professor Smith’s expertise spans many areas of finance, including corporate valuation, solvency, bankruptcy, restructuring, and governance. As an expert witness, he has testified in securities class actions at the class certification and merits stages. Professor Smith has extensive testifying experience in depositions and trials, including in federal bankruptcy courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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René M. Stulz

René Stulz is a leading finance expert, focusing on corporate finance, risk management, derivatives, securities, financial institutions, and valuation. Professor Stulz’s findings have provided the foundation for favorable rulings in motion practice and on damages. He has testified in many securities class actions and matters related to mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), derivatives, and fixed-income securities.

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Paul Zurek

Paul Zurek specializes in matters related to financial markets, securities, risk management, valuation, complex data, and statistical and econometric analysis. Dr. Zurek has submitted numerous expert reports and declarations and testified in depositions, arbitration, and regulatory investigations. He has assessed Section 10b, 11, and 12 matters and analyzed market efficiency, price impact, loss causation, and damages at class certification and merits stages.

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