Who We Are
We conduct rigorous financial and economic analysis to help resolve complex disputes – from the boardroom to the courtroom. Our experts are adept at providing in-depth analysis, quantum of damages, forensic accounting, valuation and expert testimony in litigation and international arbitration matters.
How We Help
Our team conducts rigorous financial and economic analysis to help resolve a range of disputes — from internal matters to litigation — from the boardroom to the courtroom. We are adept at providing in-depth analysis of complex financial transactions, preparing comprehensive reports, and providing compelling expert testimony before courts and tribunals.
A&M works closely with law firms, companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, and stakeholders to assist in the financial evaluation of the liability and damage phases of a dispute. This includes discovery support, analysis, privileged consulting, and expert testimony on complex finance, accounting, economic, and operational matters.
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Monopolization and Exclusionary Practices
A&M advises clients in matters involving monopolization, attempted monopolization, and exclusionary practices, with expertise in the economics of tying, resale price maintenance, budling, exclusionary conduct, predatory pricing, vertical agreements, and other exclusionary practices.
Price Fixing, Collusion, and Horizontal Conduct
Our economists are experts in the economics of price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation, and other horizontal agreements between competitors. A&M has advised clients through investigations and provided expert testimony in litigation.
Mergers
We draw on a team of expert industrial organization economists supported by an accomplished team to analyze the competitive effects of potential and consummated mergers. We have experience with pre-merger competition assessments, agency submissions, and second requests, and procompetitive benefits analysis.
Class Actions
A&M’s team provides expert advice in antitrust class action litigation matters, drawing on our experience testifying on class certification, causation, and damages.
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A&M experts regularly evaluate economic evidence in class action litigation. We have testified in the class certification, causation, and damages phases of these matters, with experience in direct and indirect purchaser cases as well as the application of conjoint analyses and hedonic regressions.
By synthesizing large data and theory driven hypotheses, we explore issues of common impact and predominance of common factors, testing for class conflicts in injury and incentives. A&M also opines on the feasibility of using a single model to estimate damages across the class.
After the class certification stage, our experts provide expert testimony on the economic aspects of causation and conduct damage estimates for plaintiffs and defendants.
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Litigation can result from misunderstandings, mistakes, purposeful strategy, fraud or negligence. Complex and challenging legal disputes are a business reality. We advise companies and government authorities, in collaboration with their legal counsel, on a wide range of legal matters.
Our experts analyze large datasets to untangle and communicate complex financial concepts and problems. We reconstruct lost audit trails, uncover hidden truths and mine datasets for clients through in-depth knowledge of forensic accounting and forensic technology.
We help you to make smart litigation decisions by assessing the other party’s assets and uncovering concealed assets.
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We provide dispute and investigation services throughout all phases of the construction lifecycle. Our professionals, comprised of industry and technical experts, have direct project management experience in the global construction industry, and specialize in providing expert services related to investigations and litigation support.
Our team is proud to be named of one of the top construction consulting firms in 2025 in the UK by Consultancy UK.
Expert services for arbitration, litigation and adjudication including experts specializing in:
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When a company’s performance declines, affected parties seek to salvage their stake in the entity. The likelihood of fraudulent acts significantly increases as internal controls deteriorate. In suspected cases of wrongdoing, stakeholders need answers and support from unbiased experts.
Objectivity. Integrity. Discretion.
We serve as, or advise, independent fiduciaries (e.g., special committees, independent directors, examiners, trustees, administrators, and receivers) and regulators and bring deep expertise in providing investigation and litigation services related to companies facing a crisis. We investigate and assess the value of potential causes of action, model and assess settlement strategies and assist in securing recoveries in a cost-effective manner. We reconstruct audit trails, analyze relevant facts, conduct asset search and asset preservation, and provide control and stability for companies subject to judicial supervision. We have served as court-appointed trustees, examiners, plan administrators, litigation trustees, liquidating trustees, mediators, monitors and receivers in multiple cases.
We manage all operational, financial and investigatory matters:
We manage and perform investigations on matters of interest to the court and the parties in interest:
We work across all phases of litigation and serve as testifying experts for a variety of issues, including:
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Healthcare and life science companies face a challenging competitive, regulatory, and policy environment. Our team of economists and industry experts help hospitals, physician groups, insurers, medical device companies, and life science companies navigate this complex environment.
A&M’s team has worked on pre-merger clearances before federal and state agencies in hospital mergers, physician group transactions, vertical provider arrangements, joint ventures, both in the U.S. and internationally. We use cutting edge econometric tools to evaluate market concentration, market power, and bargaining leverage. We also evaluate procompetitive benefits and efficiencies specific to health systems, insurers, and patients that are likely to arise from the transaction.
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Heightened compliance scrutiny regarding adherence with laws and regulation guidelines coupled with changing demographics, and updates to accreditation standards have led to a shifting landscape for higher education institutions to navigate. We provide comprehensive professional services including investigations and compliance, economic consulting, forensic technology, cyber and data privacy risk, and expert testimony.
We bring forensic accountants, technologists, economists, regulators and law enforcement to matters. Our team includes former higher education leaders, and in house counsel, who leverage their on-the-ground experience to provide higher education institutions with the solutions they seek to achieve their goals.
Investigation and Compliance Services
Our experts perform internal investigations, related to the accuracy of financial reporting, accounting re-statement exercises, corruption investigations, and culture, conduct and ethics issues.
We follow a defined methodology that surfaces key risks and relevant data sources and then evaluates allegations through data analytics and testing. We identify root-cause breakdowns that allowed conduct to occur and develop actionable steps to mitigate risk without burdening our client’s business.
We operationalize recommendations by counsel to ensure effective and efficient compliance.
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Advisory Services
In collaboration with our higher education Public Sector practice, our team provides project management, integration management, and strategic advising. We also operationalize recommendations made by counsel, to provide measurable positive outcomes post investigation.
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Dispute Services
We conduct rigorous financial and economic analysis to help resolve complex disputes – from the boardroom to the courtroom. Our experts are adept at providing in-depth analysis, quantum of damages, class certification, forensic accounting, valuation and expert testimony in litigation and international arbitration matters.
Relevant areas include:
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In today’s global marketplace, the management, protection and control of intellectual property is a high-stakes matter in any business. When faced with infringement of its intellectual property or issues related to the valuation of intellectual assets, companies and their counsel need access to experienced professionals who bring deep expertise in addressing these critical issues. Our experts assist clients in bringing successful resolution to complex IP issues that significantly impact organizations.
Selecting the right team is crucial to successfully navigating challenging and critical intellectual property and licensing issues. Our team provides innovative solutions, and accurate and comprehensive answers to meet highly sensitive deadlines. Our experts have extensive experience providing testimony in state and federal courts and international and domestic arbitration on these issues. We are free from audit-based conflicts of interest, are highly experienced, and bring a proven track record of exceptional service. We perform detailed, thorough and fact-based analyses to provide objective advice for each unique situation.
Licensing Advisory & Compliance
Valuation & Strategy
Intellectual Property Litigation
A&M professionals bring decades of experience in providing IP services across a variety of industries, including:
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Leaders in Arbitration Servies
A&M is recognized by Global Arbitration Review in their GAR 100 top 10 Power Index as one of the leading firms of independent experts for arbitration. We are also considered a top three firm by Who’s Who Legal based on the number of experts across the globe and by Chambers in its guides to experts in the UK. Our principal expertise covers quantum of damages, valuation and economic causation. We also can provide subject matter experts across a range of industries.
Global capability
Our experts are familiar with all major arbitration rules and have testified under the rules of most of the arbitral institutions. Our teams also work across all the leading international centers. Our experts have experience acting in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, for both claimants and respondents and, occasionally, as tribunal-appointed or single-joint experts. Our typical expert testimony relates to the assessment of loss and damage; valuation of businesses, entities, and ventures; shareholder disputes; forensic accounting analysis; and economic and econometric analysis.
We provide support to clients at all stages of the Arbitration process:
Leveraging the benefits of our independence and sectorial expertise
As with the disputes our clients are involved in, we work cross-border. Our independence means that clients need not worry about potential conflicts of interest emerging as proceedings get underway. Our shared knowledge means that we can effectively team across geographies to deliver objective outcomes for our clients. We commonly work in tandem with colleagues with subject matter or sectorial expertise, drawing from the rich traditions of the firm in hands-on operational experience.
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Our team is highly experienced in providing employment and labor-related dispute and investigative services for our clients. Our experts provide support throughout the litigation and investigation lifecycle, including discovery and data collection; complex data analysis; analysis of mitigation; calculating economic damages including commissions, benefits, pensions, and stock options; providing sound economic analysis consistent with the facts; conducting statistical and econometric analysis; providing expert reports, testimony, and assistance with mediation or settlement in individual, collective and class action cases or investigations involving labor or employment issues including:
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Disputes over the value of a business or other ownership interests are sometimes unavoidable. The accurate assessment of economic impact and value and damages in these legal matters often depends on sophisticated analytic, economic, financial and quantitative analysis.
A seasoned and successful team.
Our respected professionals serve as experts in litigation, bankruptcy, arbitration and mediation in local, state, federal and national courts as well as with international arbitrations. We have quantified damages for loss of business value, disputed business value, warrants and stock options, corporate and securities claims, labor and employment disputes, and lost profits in matters successfully resolved in and out of court.
Our independent, objective written reports and verbal testimony reinforce your legal position. We support you and your attorneys through case assessment strategies and expert reports that quantify economic loss or damages, settlement negotiations and alternative dispute resolution and economic evidence.
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Our Mass Torts team is retained by defendants, plaintiffs, companies, special masters and parties in bankruptcy throughout the mass tort lifecycle. From initial risk assessment through potential settlement, our experts have assisted clients on some of the most high-profile matters involving product liability torts, mass toxic torts and mass disaster torts.
Disputes and Investigations – Economic Advisory & Liability Estimation
We work with counsel, companies, insurers, financial institutions, parties in bankruptcy, investors, court appointed neutrals, special masters and trustees to quantify and forecast:
Complex Claims Advisory – Settlement Negotiation, Design, Oversight and Administration
We work with counsel, court appointed neutrals, trustees, beneficiary committees, government agencies, courts, parties in bankruptcy, claims processing facilities and claims administrators to:
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M&A disputes arise for a variety of reasons. Alvarez & Marsal’s team of professionals have extensive experience assisting buyers and sellers in avoiding disputes or, if they do arise, successfully settling or arbitrating them.
Our M&A disputes practice is comprised of financial reporting and accounting experts with decades of experience applying GAAP, IFRS, and other accounting bases in such disputes. We work on behalf of buyers, sellers and their advisers as both consultants and expert witnesses. Our professionals also serve as neutral accounting arbitrators to resolve disputes concerning working capital adjustments, earnouts, and other accounting issues.
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The Real Estate and Environmental Economics practice has been retained on some of the largest and most complex environmental matters around the world. We have experience ranging from single parcels to matters involving tens of thousands of parcels in all asset classes, including residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural. Our work has included the study of impacts alleged to have been caused by air emissions, ground water, surface water, soil, odors, noise and other disamentities.
• Real Estate Damages/Class Certification Analysis: Cost, use and risk analysis related to allegations of property value diminution
• Value Assurance Programs/Institutional Control Programs: Proactive programs to address sales of properties at less than market value, access issues, releases or settlement programs
• Environmental Liabilities: Current and future damage, future contingent liabilities, EPA BEN and ABEL models
• Real Estate Research, Data Analytics and GIS: Statistical analysis, literature review, proprietary models, cycle analysis, cloudbased mapping solutions
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Technology software and systems are a core facet in many of today’s civil and commercial disputes. A&M specializes in providing end-to-end IT dispute expert advisory.
Whether the issue is a live frustrated IT project requiring root cause technical delay analysis, or a dispute requiring software analysis expert evidence, A&M has vast experience within complex, high-value information technology disputes across a variety of sectors and industries.
A&M can assist at all stages of a project dispute or the litigation lifecycle, including pre-dispute project advisory to post-deal insurance claims. Our technology experts have extensive experience in identifying, collecting, documenting and analyzing complex technical platforms and information sources, and translating technical complexities into digestible outputs.
Our representative experience covers varying forms of technology assessment, from software expert witness appointments in arbitrations and litigations to alternate dispute resolution advisory within live IT projects.
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