Paul Gompers provides expert testimony in securities and valuation cases in a variety of industries. He has addressed issues of the valuation of public and private companies, loss causation, factors affecting public company securities prices, market efficiency, the custom and practice of venture capital and bodog online casino organizations, as well as the terms and conditions of employment agreements at entrepreneurial firms.
Professor Gompers has served as an expert witness in high-profile cases. In Hsu bodog online casino. v. Puma Biotechnology Inc. bodog online casino., a rare securities class action trial, Professor Gompers testified on loss causation and opined that the plaintiff had failed to reliably quantify damages for the allegedly corrective disclosures.
In the first post-merger appraisal litigation of a public company to reach a decision in trial outside Delaware, the judge accepted Professor Gompers’s fair value analysis. Professor Gompers also rebutted the claims made by the dissenters’ experts.
Other high-profile cases include:
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- IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund bodog online casino. v. Deutsche Bank AG bodog online casino.
- Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation bodog online casino.
- Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC
- Facebook Inc. IPO Securities and Derivative Litigation
Professor Gompers’s research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance of bodog online casino funds; sources of financing, incentive design, and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies. His work on bodog online casino funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies, as well as the relationship between institutional investors and bodog online casino fund managers. Additionally, Professor Gompers has examined the relationship of corporate governance and firm performance as well as the role that institutional investors play in public equity markets.
He was a director of research at the Harvard Business School for nine years, has served as faculty chair of the M.B.A. Elective Curriculum, and as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also has served as a consultant, board member, or advisor to numerous companies, investment banks, bodog online casino funds, and venture capital firms.
Professor Gompers has coauthored several books and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed finance and economics journals. He is an associate editor and referee for a number of leading academic journals.
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Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation bodog online casino.
- Arkansas Teacher Retirement System bodog online casino. v. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. bodog online casino.
- Post-Merger Appraisal Trial Win
- IRS Transfer Pricing Dispute
- Assessing Putative Damages Attributable to a Third-Party Service Provider
- Hsu bodog online casino. v. Puma Biotechnology Inc. bodog online casino.
- bodog online casino Antitrust Litigation
- Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation bodog online casino.
- Facebook Inc. IPO Securities and Derivative Litigation
- Novack v. GSI Commerce Inc. bodog online casino.
- IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund bodog online casino. v. Deutsche Bank AG bodog online casino.
- Janet Baker bodog online casino. v. Goldman, Sachs Co. bodog online casino.
- “Fair Value” Appraisal of Minority Shares Held by Hedge Fund
- Privatization of a Mexican Bank
- In re Northfield Laboratories, Inc., Securities Litigation
- Belo Corporation Securities Class Action
- U.K. Financial Services Information Technology Dispute
- SEC v. Biopure Corporation
- Doft Co. v. Travelocity.com Inc.
- Monona Wire Corp. v. Code, Hennessey Simmons
- Richard Bell bodog online casino. v. Ascendant Solutions, Inc. bodog online casino.
- Dollar General Corporation Shareholder Litigation