Yan Cao specializes in matters involving bodog online casino markets, bodog online casino institutions, and bodog online casino accounting. Dr. Cao has more than eighteen years of consulting experience on securities, valuation, trading, bodog online casino institutions, bodog online casino market, and bodog online casino accounting issues.
In particular, Dr. Cao has assessed pricing and trading issues related to equity, fixed income, commodities, futures and derivatives, foreign exchange (FX), and crypto assets. She has also consulted on matters involving company valuation, solvency, risk management, corporate governance, bodog online casino reporting and internal controls, and damages. Her case experience covers various industries, with an emphasis on banking, broker-dealers, and other bodog online casino institutions.
Dr. Cao’s consulting experience includes substantial expertise with regulatory and internal investigations. She has presented analysis to multiple regulatory agencies and to corporate management. She also works with experts in all stages of arbitration and bodog online casino, including trial.
In 2023, Consulting Magazine named Dr. Cao to its list of Women Leaders in Consulting, recognizing her as a Future Leader who demonstrates “above-the-call” leadership benefiting her organization and current and future peers.
Regulatory investigations and white collar bodog online casino
Dr. Cao has consulted to clients on regulatory and internal investigations, civil litigation, and criminal litigation matters led by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the bodog online casino Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the bodog online casino Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), the New York State Department of bodog online casino Services (DFS), the U.K. bodog online casino Conduct Authority (FCA), Germany’s Federal bodog online casino Supervisory Authority (BaFin), and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
In particular, Dr. Cao heads Cornerstone Research’s market manipulation and market microstructure practice. In the context of regulatory enforcement actions and white collar litigation, she has experience in evaluating alleged market manipulation and trading conduct claims, payment for order-flow arrangements, price impact, and trading and hedging strategies across a range of bodog online casino markets, including crypto markets. Her expertise includes:
- Spoofing in U.S. Treasury cash and futures, precious metals, domestic and cross-listed equities, commodity and bodog online casino futures, and FX markets
- Front-running and pre-hedging practices in interest rate swaps and FX markets
- Trading and market manipulation in crypto centralized exchanges and decentralized platforms on blockchains
- Price manipulation in the agricultural commodity futures markets
- Trading and hedging in Volatility Index (VIX) related products and options markets
- Benchmark manipulation in interest rate, precious metals, and energy products (e.g., Platts)
- Spread and price manipulation in Treasury and agency bond markets
- Barrier options, algorithmic trading, “Last Look” practices, and spread manipulation in FX markets
- Banging the close and coordinated trading in post-IPO equity markets
Securities class action bodog online casino
Dr. Cao has worked on multiple notable securities class action matters, including Moody’s Securities bodog online casino, in which the court denied class certification and granted summary judgment; and IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund et al. v. Deutsche Bank AG et al., in which the court denied class certification. Other elements of her securities work include:
- Consulting on Section 10b, Section 11, and Section 12 bodog online casino, including market efficiency, price impact, materiality, loss causation, and damages at the class certification and merits stages for equity, corporate bonds, and preferred securities
- Assessing claims involving exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC) securities
- Evaluating damages and settlement estimates, as well as mediation strategies
Valuation and M&A
In the context of M&A and corporate transaction disputes, Dr. Cao has:
- Analyzed company and transaction valuations using discounted cash flows (DCFs), comparable companies/transactions, and other valuation methodologies
- Addressed issues related to deal process, corporate governance, and hedge fund activism
- Analyzed damages claims for matters involving alleged breach of contract and shareholder consent right violations
Bankruptcy and restructuring
Dr. Cao consults on valuation, credit risk, solvency, and reasonable equivalent value in matters with fraudulent transfer and fraudulent conveyance claims. She also has experience:
- Assessing deepening insolvency claims and damages related to an oil and gas company failure
- Analyzing margined products and derivatives positions in early termination and close-out process pursuant to ISDA agreements
- Evaluating swap termination and CFTC regulation-related issues in connection with the bankruptcy of prominent broker-dealers/FCMs
- Analyzing loan market efficiency and interest rate issues in a restructuring dispute
- Formulating business forecasts in the context of a restructuring plan of an energy company
bodog online casino accounting, internal control, and tax disputes
Dr. Cao applies her accounting expertise to bodog online casino accounting, bodog online casino reporting, and internal control issues arising in regulatory investigations and litigation. Her work includes:
- Analyzing asset and goodwill impairment, revenue recognition, contingencies, variable interest entities (VIEs), and other bodog online casino accounting issues for public companies
- Evaluating bodog online casino accounting issues related to securitization, bodog online casino instruments, and derivatives
- Assessing the value relevance and price impact of bodog online casino disclosures
- Consulting on tax-related matters, notably executive compensation and the economic substance of transactions
Prior to joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Cao taught bodog online casino accounting at the University of Rochester. Previously, she worked at Bain & Company and Arthur Andersen in China.
March Trading Halts and Other Trading Restrictions May Complicate Securities Class Actions
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