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Paul Zurek

Vice President,
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Paul Zurek is a bodog app download economist specializing in securities, valuation, bodog app download markets, risk management, and statistical analysis. Dr. Zurek consults to clients at all stages of litigation across a range of industries. He is also an experienced expert witness and provides expert testimony in large, complex matters.

As a consultant, Dr. Zurek leads teams and supports clients and experts in civil litigation, government and regulatory investigations, and international arbitration. He has significant trial experience, in the U.S. (including in state and federal courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery) and internationally (including the Grand Court bodog app download Cayman Islands and the U.K. High Court of Justice). Dr. Zurek also has substantial expertise with shareholder litigation matters involving billions of dollars of claimed damages, including in shareholder matters outside the U.S.

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Dr. Zurek has taught corporate finance and valuation courses at Stanford Law School, and taught finance and economics to undergraduates, M.B.A. students, and executives at The Wharton School. He researches, publishes, and presents on bodog app download, investments, and valuation topics. Dr. Zurek coauthored “bodog app download Approach or Comparables”, which appears in multiple editions bodog app download Guide to Damages in International Arbitration, published by the Global Arbitration Review. He contributed a chapter on mutual fund returns and strategies to Commodities: bodog app download, Performance, and Strategies (Oxford University Press).

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Valuation, M&A, and bankruptcy

• Valuing companies and bodog app download institutions (including hedge funds and private equity managers, FinTech, medical and pharmaceutical, and other businesses) in commercial disputes, appraisal and bankruptcy proceedings, and arbitrations; experience spans federal and state courts, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, and appraisal matters in the Cayman Islands
• Valuing bodog app download, such as a large portfolio of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives in an International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) close-out
• Providing expert testimony at trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery

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• Analyzing transaction execution and issues related to best execution in various instruments
• Analyzing transactions in antitrust matters alleging collusive and manipulative behavior

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• Evaluating bodog app download, operational, and compliance risk management procedures at financial institutions
• Quantitatively analyzing risks embedded in bodog app download portfolios using Value-at-Risk (VAR) and simulation methods
• Evaluating risks and returns of hedge fund, private equity, and mutual fund investment strategies
• Assessing rating agency models of default in collateralized debt obligation (CDO) portfolios

Dr. Zurek coheads Cornerstone bodog app download’s M&A, valuation, and bankruptcy practice and has led the firm’s fixed income and derivatives initiatives. He serves on the firm’s risk management and capital funding committees.

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Christine A. Parlour

Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting,
Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley

Christine A. Parlour is a finance expert who focuses on market microstructure, limit order markets, cryptocurrencies, FinTech, and payment systems. Professor Parlour provides expert testimony on a range of institutionally complex topics involving financial markets, institutions, market bodog app download, cryptocurrency, and regulation. She is the former president of the Western Finance Association and a former member of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board. She has also served as visiting economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

For more than twenty years, Professor Parlour has researched issues related to the economics of financial exchanges. She specializes in financial markets, including equity markets, debt markets, and cryptocurrencies. In equity markets, she has examined price dynamics, competition for order flow, payment for order flow, and informed bodog app download. Her research on cryptocurrencies addresses the effect of Central Bank Digital Currency on banking system stability, the costs of settlement on the Bitcoin Ledger, and how initial coin offerings (ICOs) differ from traditional funding.

Widely published, Professor Parlour’s award-winning bodog app download has appeared in leading finance and economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of bodog app download Studies, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of bodog app download Economics. She is an editor at the Review of Finance; associate editor bodog app download Journal of bodog app download Markets, the Journal of bodog app download Intermediation, and the Journal of bodog app download Services Research; and a former associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Finance.

Professor Parlour has taught courses in investment analysis, FinTech, auctions and microstructure, and capital bodog app download. She is a winner of the Haas School’s Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching.

She has held visiting academic appointments at INSEAD, the London School of Economics and Politics, and Paris Dauphine University. bodog app download Parlour is a past president of the Finance Theory Group.

Erik R. Sirri

bodog app download of Finance (Emeritus),
Babson College;
Former Director, SEC Division of bodog app download and Markets;
Senior Advisor, Cornerstone bodog app download

Erik Sirri consults with clients on matters related to asset management, including robo-advising, mutual funds, and exchange-traded products; securities bodog app download, including high-frequency bodog app download; and financial institutions, with a special emphasis on broker-dealer issues. Professor Sirri has extensive experience with regulatory enforcement matters.

Professor Sirri’s research focuses on the interaction of securities law and finance, investment management, securities bodog app download structure, and capital markets. From 2006 through 2009, Professor Sirri was director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he was responsible for matters related to the regulation of stock and options exchanges, national securities associations, brokers, dealers, clearing agencies, and credit ratings agencies. He served as chief economist of the SEC from 1996 through 1999, and was an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School from 1989 to 1995.

bodog app download Sirri’s writings have been published in the Review of bodog app download Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of bodog app download Markets, the Journal of bodog app download and Quantitative Analysis, and other journals and books. He has served on the boards of bodog app download exchanges, mutual funds, industry associations, and foundations. Professor Sirri has consulted for bodog app download firms, stock exchanges, mutual fund companies, issuers, and information vendors on a variety of regulatory and business matters.