M&A expert witness

Testimony and consulting on how transactions are actually run: sale processes and market checks, board and banker conduct, activism and contested deals, financing, and transaction disclosure.

Check availability & conflicts

Helpful in a first note: matter caption, court, parties (for the conflicts check), discipline, and timing. No privileged or confidential facts, please.

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Scope of testimony and analysis

ProcessSale-process design and conduct: auctions, market checks, go-shops, exclusivity, and the record a well-run process leaves.

BoardsBoard and special-committee conduct in transactions, including conflicted and controller deals.

ActivismShareholder activism and contested situations: campaign economics, settlement dynamics, defense conduct.

Private equitySponsor transactions, fund and portfolio-company structures, and the conduct of PE-appointed directors — the subject of his testimony in VLSI v. Intel and Martino-Fleming.

BankingFinancial-advisor engagement, fairness-opinion practice, and banker-conflict questions.

DisclosureProxy and tender-offer disclosure practice in transactions, measured against market norms.

Why counsel retain him

Practitioner first

Nearly 25 years in investment banking and corporate finance, including service as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for the Southwest U.S. at Wells Fargo Securities and roles at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and DLJ/Credit Suisse — opinions grounded in how these decisions are actually made.

Dual-discipline academic

Professor of Practice in Finance (SMU Cox) and Adjunct Professor of Law (SMU Dedman); Ph.D. and LL.M. The finance and the law in one witness.

Tested on the public record

Governance Advisor to Tesla's Special Committee (2025 CEO Performance Award, disclosed in the company's proxy statement); expert witness in United States v. Google LLC, No. 1:23-cv-00108-LMB-JFA (E.D. Va.) — testified at trial, October 2025.

Tesla DEFA14A → DOJ case page →

Method

Every opinion is built from primary sources, documented methodology, and analysis a court — or an opposing expert — can trace to its inputs. See the Reincorporation Index and the Texas Business Court Codex.