Our trusted CPAs, certified fraud examiners, forensic accounting specialists, and certified valuation analysts regularly prepare expert reports and can convert complex business and financial issues into an understandable form for both judges and juries. We’ve prepared expert reports on a wide range of issues, including lost profits, cyber damages, piercing the corporate veil, and business, real estate, fixed asset, and intellectual property valuation, among others. Our experts have testified in jury and bench trials in both federal and state courts.

To secure contractual or royalty revenue streams, enforce rights, and discharge responsibilities, our clients – and their employees and stakeholders – need a thorough understanding of the revenue sharing and royalty agreements their businesses enter into. We assist clients in monitoring and enforcing contractual provisions, testing compliance with reporting requirements, and performing analyses of revenue or royalty reporting to ensure appropriate amounts are accounted for. We help maintain and enhance the value of revenue-sharing agreements by cross-referencing the terms of royalty and licensing agreements with underlying books, records, transactional data, and royalty accounting, identifying areas of non-compliance or omissions to detect underpayments or other violations.

In complex disputes arising from in-depth business dealings, clients and their counsel rely on us to interpret financial data and quantify damages, guiding them through proceedings with minimal disruption and achieving favorable outcomes. Fraud and forensic accounting investigations require knowledge of GAAP, bookkeeping, and investigative skills; our forensic accounting professionals assist with evidence discovery and reconstructing records to uncover critical facts, revealing discrepancies through a comprehensive evidence-gathering process.

CohnReznick’s trusted CPAs, certified insolvency and restructuring advisors, and certified turnaround professionals have prepared countless solvency opinions, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

We assist clients in preparing and reviewing closing statements and dispute notices related to the post-closing purchase price adjustment or earn-out mechanisms. We negotiate in areas of disagreement with the opposing party, reviewing the strength of arguments and evaluating the likelihood of success in a dispute setting. Leveraging our extensive accounting/GAAP expertise, transaction experience, and dispute resolution skills, we help our clients negotiate post-acquisition purchase price issues related to working capital adjustments, earn-out disputes, and rep and warranty indemnification claims.  We serve as the neutral third-party arbitrator in resolving post-closing purchase price disputes related to working capital adjustments, earn-out disputes, and other issues under SPAs.

Our M&A Insurance Advisory group represents clients as an accounting expert in representation and warranty insurance (RWI) claims. We have extensive experience in the RWI industry as a whole and serve as third-party accounting counsel for numerous clients in their underwriting of RWI policies. Our experience enables an efficient and highly collaborative claims process for our clients and the underlying insurance policyholders.

Most disputes involve digital data and other evidence that needs to be considered or else you’ll miss key information. Powered by our state-of-the-art digital forensics lab, CohnReznick can delve into electronic evidence, deploy data analytics to comb through large data repositories, and handle large eDiscovery requests. Our forensic team comprises certified analysts and testifying experts with decades of litigation experience who identify fraud and all the relevant facts in a dispute.