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Economic Damages and Lost Profits Valuation: A Litigation Attorney’s Complete Guide to Finding — and Working With — the Right Expert

The Expert Decision That Wins or Loses the Case Before Trial

In commercial litigation, the liability question and the damages question are two separate battles. Attorneys who specialize in one sometimes underestimate the other. The result — particularly on the damages side — is a case that wins on liability and loses on quantum, or settles for a fraction of the recoverable amount because the damages analysis cannot withstand the opposing expert’s scrutiny.

Economic damages expert witness candidates typically have expertise in forensic accounting, business valuation, financial forensics, certified public accounting, and economic damage analysis. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.

The challenge for litigation attorneys — particularly those whose practice focuses on breach of contract, business disputes, intellectual property, or commercial tort — is not finding someone who can calculate damages. It is finding someone who can calculate defensible damages: a number that survives Daubert challenge, holds up under cross-examination, and is presented to a jury in a way that is both credible and comprehensible.

This blog is written specifically for litigation attorneys. It explains exactly what economic damages and lost profits valuation involves, what separates a defensible expert from a vulnerable one, how the major methodologies work and when each applies, what the Daubert standard requires of your expert’s methodology, what questions to ask before retaining someone, and how Synpact supports litigation attorneys with the underlying analytical work that makes expert testimony credible.

If you are retaining an economic damages expert for the first time — or if you have had an expert’s testimony excluded or a damages calculation challenged in cross-examination — this guide is for you.

What Economic Damages Valuation Actually Is — and What It Is Not

Economic damages valuation is the quantification in financial terms of the harm suffered by a plaintiff as a result of a defendant’s wrongful conduct. It answers the question: what would the plaintiff’s financial position have been, but for the defendant’s actions?

This “but-for” framework is the conceptual foundation of virtually every economic damages analysis. The expert constructs a hypothetical scenario — the world as it would have existed absent the defendant’s conduct — and compares it to the actual world. The difference, measured in present value dollars, is the economic damage.

What Economic Damages Covers

Economic damages in commercial litigation encompasses several distinct categories, each requiring a specific analytical approach:

Lost profits: The profits the plaintiff would have earned but for the defendant’s wrongful conduct. Lost profits analysis applies in breach of contract cases, tortious interference, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, fraud, and many intellectual property disputes. It is the most common form of economic damages in commercial litigation and the most analytically demanding.

Lost business value: Where the defendant’s conduct has permanently impaired the value of the plaintiff’s business — not just its profits — the damages measure is the diminution in enterprise value. Lost business value analysis uses the same DCF and comparable company methodology as a standard business valuation, applied to the pre-wrong and post-wrong states of the business.

Reasonable royalty: In intellectual property cases — patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement — the damages may be measured as the royalty the plaintiff would have charged for a licence to use the intellectual property. Reasonable royalty analysis applies the Georgia-Pacific factors (in patent cases) or the analogous framework for other IP types to determine the hypothetical negotiated royalty rate.

Unjust enrichment: Where the plaintiff seeks disgorgement of the defendant’s gains from wrongful conduct — rather than the plaintiff’s own losses — the analysis quantifies the net profit the defendant derived from the wrong. Unjust enrichment and lost profits are alternative measures of damages; the plaintiff typically pursues whichever is larger.

Business interruption: In property damage, natural disaster, or supply chain disruption cases, business interruption damages measure the profits lost during the period of interruption, plus the extra expenses incurred to resume operations. Business interruption analysis requires a reconstruction of the but-for revenue and cost structure during the interruption period.

Intellectual property — specific types: Patent infringement damages may include both lost profits (on sales the plaintiff lost to the infringing product) and reasonable royalty (on sales the plaintiff cannot prove it would have made). Copyright damages may include statutory damages where actual damages are difficult to prove. Trade secret damages may include head-start damages — the time and cost savings the defendant gained by misappropriating rather than independently developing the trade secret.

What Economic Damages Is Not

Economic damages is not accounting. A forensic accountant can reconstruct historical financial records, identify fraud, or calculate the cash flows of a business — but these are inputs to an economic damages analysis, not the analysis itself. The economic damages expert applies financial analysis methodology to a legal framework: what is the legally cognisable measure of harm, and what financial evidence quantifies it?

Economic damages is not a business valuation for transaction purposes. A fair market value determination for M&A or estate tax purposes uses different standards (the hypothetical willing buyer and seller) than an economic damages analysis (the but-for world). An expert who applies M&A valuation methodology without modification to a lost profits case may reach a conclusion that is methodologically incorrect under the applicable legal standard.

And economic damages is not a simple arithmetic exercise. The opposing expert in any significant commercial case will be a credentialed professional with the same access to the plaintiff’s financial data. The analytical choices — how to construct the but-for revenue projection, which cost categories to include or exclude, what discount rate to apply, how to handle mitigation — are the battleground on which most damages disputes are decided.

The Lost Profits Methodology — Step by Step

Lost profits is the most common and most contested form of economic damages in commercial litigation. Understanding the methodology in detail allows an attorney to evaluate the strength of their expert’s analysis before it is challenged by the opposing side.

Step 1: Establish the But-For Revenue

The first and most critical analytical step is establishing what the plaintiff’s revenue would have been absent the defendant’s wrongful conduct. This is the but-for revenue — the foundation on which every subsequent calculation rests.

The but-for revenue is typically established using one or more of three approaches:

Historical performance extrapolation: The plaintiff’s actual historical revenue growth rate is projected forward through the damages period. If the plaintiff was growing at 18% annually before the defendant’s conduct began, the but-for revenue assumes that growth continued. This approach is appropriate where the historical growth is consistent, the business model is stable, and there is no exogenous reason to expect the growth rate to have changed.

Management projections or business plan: If the plaintiff had prepared revenue projections or a business plan before the defendant’s conduct — a board-approved budget, a loan application, an investor presentation — those projections may serve as the but-for revenue baseline. This approach is appropriate where the projections were prepared in the ordinary course of business, are not litigation-motivated, and are consistent with the company’s actual historical performance.

Comparable company benchmarking: The plaintiff’s revenue is compared to a benchmark — a market index, a set of comparable companies, or an industry growth rate — to establish what a company like the plaintiff would have earned in the relevant period. This approach is most appropriate where historical performance is insufficient (for newer businesses) or where market conditions changed materially during the damages period.

In most cases, all three approaches are used and cross-referenced. An expert who relies exclusively on one approach — particularly management projections prepared in anticipation of litigation — will be vulnerable on cross-examination.

Step 2: Establish the But-For Costs

Lost profits is revenue minus costs. The but-for costs are the costs the plaintiff would have incurred in earning the but-for revenue. The most contested analytical question in lost profits cases is which costs are incremental — the costs that would have been incurred only if the additional revenue had been generated — and which are fixed, already incurred regardless of the revenue outcome.

The breadth and depth of topics in economic damages analysis includes measurements on lost profits or value, unjust enrichment, intellectual property damages, and other commercial damages — with specific analysis of how to project but-for profits and establish evidence in lost profits cases.

The distinction between incremental and fixed costs is where many damages analyses go wrong — in both directions. An expert who deducts all costs (including fixed costs that would have been incurred regardless) understates lost profits. An expert who deducts only variable costs and ignores costs that would genuinely have been incremental to the additional revenue overstates lost profits. The correct analysis requires a line-by-line cost categorisation based on the specific cost structure of the plaintiff’s business.

Step 3: Calculate the But-For Profit and the Actual Profit

Lost profits = But-For Profit minus Actual Profit during the damages period. The actual profit is derived from the plaintiff’s historical financial statements. The but-for profit is derived from the but-for revenue and cost analysis in Steps 1 and 2.

For periods where the plaintiff was still operating — even if at reduced revenue — the actual profit is a positive number (or a negative number if the defendant’s conduct pushed the business into loss). For periods where the defendant’s conduct caused the business to cease operations entirely, the actual profit is zero (or the wind-down loss).

Step 4: Discount to Present Value

Lost profits that extend into future periods must be discounted to present value to reflect the time value of money. The discount rate used in a lost profits present value calculation is a contested methodological choice.

An economic expert can help attorneys by estimating future damages, discounted to today’s dollars, and calculating economic losses including wages, profits, benefits, stock options, household services, and future medical costs.

The appropriate discount rate for lost profits depends on the risk profile of the projected cash flows. If the but-for revenue projection is based on a contractual cash flow — a long-term supply agreement with a creditworthy counterparty — the discount rate should reflect the credit risk of that contract, not the overall risk of the business. If the but-for revenue projection is speculative — a startup’s projected market penetration — the discount rate should be higher, reflecting the risk that the projection would not have been achieved even without the defendant’s conduct.

The opposing expert will attack the discount rate choice. A rate that is too low overstates present value. A rate that is too high understates it. The expert must be able to defend the specific rate selected with reference to market data and published methodology.

Step 5: Address Mitigation

The plaintiff has a legal duty to mitigate damages. An economic damages analysis that does not address mitigation will be attacked by the opposing expert and may result in a damages reduction at trial.

Mitigation analysis requires the expert to consider what steps the plaintiff could reasonably have taken to reduce the impact of the defendant’s conduct — and to quantify the savings the plaintiff could have achieved through those steps. If the plaintiff actually took mitigation steps (redirecting resources, finding alternative customers, reducing costs), those steps and their financial impact are incorporated into the actual profits calculation. If the plaintiff failed to take reasonable mitigation steps, the but-for profit is reduced by the amount that mitigation would have saved.

The Daubert Standard — What It Requires of Your Expert’s Methodology

Federal courts apply the Daubert standard to the admissibility of expert testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 702. Most state courts have adopted analogous standards. Understanding what Daubert requires is essential for retaining an expert whose testimony will survive a motion to exclude.

Under Daubert and FRE 702, the trial court acts as a gatekeeper for expert testimony. The court must determine that:

The expert’s testimony is based on sufficient facts or data. A lost profits analysis based on management projections prepared after the litigation commenced — without corroboration from pre-litigation business records — may fail this requirement.

The testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods. The methodology used must be one that is accepted in the relevant professional community. The reasonable certainty requirement in lost profits litigation has a specific legal meaning — it does not require mathematical certainty, but it does require that the damages calculation be based on a reasonable and non-speculative foundation, with motions to exclude financial experts frequently targeting methodology that lacks published support or peer review acceptance.

The expert has reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case. Even a sound methodology applied incorrectly — using the wrong comparable companies, applying an inappropriate discount rate, failing to account for mitigation — can result in exclusion or significant weight reduction.

The Most Common Daubert Attack Points in Economic Damages Cases

Speculation in the but-for revenue projection: If the expert’s revenue projection is not grounded in the plaintiff’s historical performance, a comparable benchmark, or a documented business plan, it will be characterised as speculative. The opposing expert will provide an alternative projection — typically lower — and argue that the plaintiff’s expert has not applied a reliable methodology.

Failure to account for alternative causes: If the plaintiff’s business declined during the damages period for reasons other than the defendant’s conduct — general market conditions, competitive pressures, management decisions — the expert must isolate the defendant’s contribution to the decline. An expert who attributes 100% of the revenue decline to the defendant without controlling for alternative causes will be challenged as having applied an unreliable methodology.

Inconsistent cost categorisation: The line between incremental and fixed costs is analytically significant and often vigorously contested. An expert whose cost categorisation is not supported by a detailed cost analysis of the plaintiff’s business — relying instead on industry averages or generalised assumptions — will be vulnerable.

Discount rate without basis: A discount rate selected without documented reference to market data or published methodology will be challenged as arbitrary. The expert must be able to produce the data sources, calculations, and professional references that support the selected rate.

Failure to address mitigation: An expert who does not address mitigation at all — treating the full but-for profit as recoverable without considering what the plaintiff could reasonably have done — will face a mitigation challenge at trial that may result in a substantial reduction in the damages award.

The 12 Questions to Ask Before Retaining an Economic Damages Expert

When selecting an economic damages expert, attorneys should review credentials and qualifications, prioritise specialisation relevant to the case, evaluate communication skills and the ability to convey complex economic concepts clearly and persuasively to judges and juries, and review testimony history to avoid conflicting opinions.

Here are the twelve questions every litigation attorney should ask before retaining an economic damages expert.

1. What credentials do you hold, and are they relevant to this type of damages analysis?

The relevant credentials for economic damages work are CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), CPA/ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation), CVA (Certified Valuation Analyst), CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics), and MAFF (Master Analyst in Financial Forensics). A PhD in economics is relevant for lost profits cases with a significant econometric component. An expert who holds none of these credentials — but claims general financial expertise — may be vulnerable on qualification.

2. How many economic damages cases have you worked on as a testifying expert?

There is a meaningful difference between an expert who has served as a consulting expert (analysing damages behind the scenes but not testifying) and one who has testified as an expert witness. The skills are different. Cross-examination experience matters. An expert who has been deposed and cross-examined in multiple cases is a better witness than one who has never testified.

3. Have you ever had testimony excluded under Daubert or an analogous state standard?

Ask directly. Review any prior Daubert decisions involving the expert. An expert with a history of excluded testimony in the same methodology area as your case is a significant risk.

4. Have you worked on both plaintiff and defence engagements?

An expert who works exclusively for plaintiffs — or exclusively for defendants — may be perceived by the jury as an advocate rather than an independent analyst. An expert with experience on both sides is more credible as an objective professional.

5. What is your methodology for establishing the but-for revenue in this type of case?

Listen for specificity. A vague answer — “I look at historical performance and comparable companies” — is not reassuring. A specific answer — “I would use a regression analysis of the company’s revenue against market demand drivers, cross-referenced against the growth rates of three to five comparable companies in the same sector” — signals methodological rigour.

6. How do you handle the incremental cost question?

The answer should reflect a genuine understanding of cost accounting — the distinction between variable, semi-variable, and fixed costs, and the methodology for categorising each in the specific context of the plaintiff’s business. An expert who deducts “industry average margins” without analysing the plaintiff’s actual cost structure is not applying a reliable methodology.

7. What is your approach to the discount rate?

The expert should be able to name a specific methodology — WACC, risk-free rate, build-up method — and explain why that methodology is appropriate for the specific cash flow being discounted. An expert who uses a single standard rate for all cases without case-specific justification is applying a methodology that will be challenged.

8. How will you address alternative causes of the plaintiff’s loss?

The expert should have a plan for isolating the defendant’s conduct from other factors that may have contributed to the plaintiff’s financial decline. If the answer is “the defendant’s conduct was the only cause,” be cautious — the opposing expert will find alternative causes, and your expert needs to have addressed them proactively.

9. What is your fee structure, and how does it compare to the expected damages quantum?

Expert fees in complex economic damages cases can be substantial. A fee structure that is proportional to the damages quantum — or that creates a financial incentive for the expert to reach a high damages number — is a cross-examination vulnerability. Flat fees or time-based billing are preferable.

10. Can you explain your methodology in plain language to a lay jury?

Ask the expert to explain the but-for analysis as if talking to a juror with no financial background. If they cannot — if the explanation is jargon-heavy, circular, or incomprehensible — the jury will not understand the damages case and the number will not carry conviction.

11. What is the weakest part of your methodology in this case?

A good expert knows where their analysis is vulnerable. An expert who cannot identify any weakness in their methodology is either overconfident or not being candid. The answer to this question tells you where to expect the opposing expert’s attack — and whether your expert has a defensible response.

12. Are you available for the timeline of this matter?

Economic damages analyses take time — particularly in complex commercial cases. An expert who is overcommitted will produce work that is rushed and under-prepared. Confirm availability for the key deadlines: expert report, deposition, and trial.

The Five Case Types Where Economic Damages Analysis Is Most Contested

Breach of Contract — Lost Profits on a Long-Term Agreement

Breach of contract cases involving long-term supply agreements, distribution agreements, or licensing arrangements are among the most analytically complex lost profits matters. The but-for revenue must be projected over a multi-year period, often including renewal assumptions. The discount rate must reflect the credit risk of the contract, not just the general risk of the business. And the mitigation question — whether the plaintiff found alternative customers or suppliers — is almost always contested.

The key analytical challenge: if the contract has not yet expired at the time of the breach, the expert must project both the performance of the contract through its remaining term and any renewal probability. This involves assumptions about market conditions, competitive dynamics, and the parties’ historical conduct — all of which the opposing expert will challenge.

Trade Secret Misappropriation — Head-Start Damages

Trade secret cases typically involve two damages theories: lost profits (on business the plaintiff lost to the defendant’s misappropriation) and head-start damages (the time and cost savings the defendant achieved by stealing the trade secret rather than developing it independently).

Head-start damages require the expert to determine how long it would have taken the defendant to independently develop the misappropriated trade secret — and what it would have cost. This is a highly fact-specific analysis that requires technical input from the relevant field (software development timelines, pharmaceutical development costs, manufacturing process development costs) combined with financial analysis of the value of the time saved.

Patent Infringement — Lost Profits vs. Reasonable Royalty

Patent infringement damages typically involve both lost profits (applying the Panduit four-factor test — demand for the patented product, absence of acceptable non-infringing substitutes, manufacturing and marketing capacity, and the amount of profit the patentee would have made) and reasonable royalty (using the Georgia-Pacific fifteen-factor framework to determine the royalty that would have been negotiated in a hypothetical arm’s-length licence negotiation).

Patent infringement damages analysis includes both lost profits and royalties, with the reasonable royalty analysis requiring application of the Georgia-Pacific factors and deep analysis of comparable licence agreements in the relevant technology field.

The analytical complexity of patent damages — particularly the Georgia-Pacific reasonable royalty framework — requires an expert with specific experience in intellectual property damages, not merely general business valuation experience.

Business Interruption — Reconstructing the But-For Period

Business interruption cases — arising from property damage, supply chain disruption, government action, or other events that temporarily halt operations — require the expert to reconstruct what the business would have earned during the interruption period. This involves projecting revenue for a specific time window, identifying the costs that would have been incurred and the costs that were avoided, and addressing the recovery trajectory — how quickly the business would have returned to pre-interruption performance levels.

In the current geopolitical environment — where supply chain disruptions from the Iran war, tariff-related import disruptions, and energy price shocks have created widespread business interruption events — this category of economic damages analysis is experiencing significant growth. Insurers, courts, and arbitral tribunals are all dealing with business interruption claims that involve complex questions about the duration of disruption and the pace of recovery. An expert with experience in the current macro environment — including the impact of oil price shocks and supply chain disruptions on specific industry cost structures — is better positioned to produce a defensible analysis. For the current geopolitical context affecting business interruption valuations, see our Iran war economic impact analysis.

Shareholder Oppression and Minority Interest Disputes

Shareholder oppression cases — where a majority shareholder has taken actions that unfairly prejudice minority shareholders — typically require a fair value determination of the minority interest as of a specific date, combined with an analysis of the economic harm caused by the oppressive conduct. The damages may include the diminution in value of the minority interest caused by the oppressive conduct, distributions that were wrongly withheld, or compensation that was paid to the majority shareholder but should have been distributed to all shareholders.

These cases sit at the intersection of business valuation and economic damages — requiring both a fair value opinion and a damages quantification. The expert must be credentialed and experienced in both disciplines.

How Synpact Supports Litigation Attorneys — The Analytical Infrastructure Behind Your Expert

The economic damages expert who signs the report and testifies at trial is the professional face of the damages case. Behind that expert is an analytical infrastructure — financial models, comparable company databases, discount rate calculations, revenue projections, cost categorisation analyses — that determines whether the expert’s testimony is credible and defensible.

Synpact provides that analytical infrastructure to litigation attorneys and their retained experts across all major categories of economic damages work.

What Synpact Produces for Litigation Support

Lost profits financial models: Three-statement historical financial reconstruction, but-for revenue projection (using historical extrapolation, management projection, and comparable benchmarking approaches), incremental cost categorisation, present value calculation with documented discount rate methodology, and sensitivity analysis across key assumptions. Delivered in Excel with full formula transparency and source documentation.

Comparable company and transaction analysis: Screened comparable company data for industry benchmarking in revenue projection and discount rate analysis. Precedent transaction data for reasonable royalty analysis in IP cases. All data pulled from Capital IQ or PitchBook as of the measurement date, formatted to your specification.

Business valuation for lost business value damages: Full DCF and market approach valuation for pre-wrong and post-wrong scenarios, with the damages measured as the difference in enterprise value. Produced to the audit-ready standard described in our valuation methodology guide.

Reasonable royalty analysis: Georgia-Pacific factor analysis for patent cases, with comparable licence agreement data and royalty rate benchmarking. Supported by industry royalty databases and the expert’s qualitative analysis of the specific technology or IP at issue.

Rebuttal analysis: When the opposing expert has produced a damages report, Synpact provides the financial analysis that supports the rebuttal — identifying specific methodological errors, alternative calculations, and sensitivity analysis that demonstrates the impact of the opposing expert’s methodological choices.

The White-Label Model for Litigation Support

Synpact’s litigation support work is delivered on a white-label basis — the financial models, spreadsheets, and analytical outputs are produced by Synpact’s CFA-qualified team and delivered to the retained expert in the expert’s format. The expert reviews, adjusts, and takes professional responsibility for the conclusions. Synpact’s name does not appear in the expert report or on any deliverable that goes to the court.

This is the standard model for litigation support analytical work. The retained expert is the professional with the legal standing to testify. Synpact is the analytical team that makes the expert’s testimony as defensible as possible.

The practical benefit for litigation attorneys: the expert you retain spends their time on the highest-value work — reviewing methodology, developing opinions, preparing for deposition and trial — rather than building spreadsheets and pulling data. The analytical work is done by a team whose sole function is producing financial models at the highest standard of rigour, overnight if needed, in whatever format the expert requires.

Turnaround for Litigation Support Engagements

Litigation timelines are fixed by court orders. When an expert report is due in 21 days, the analytical work needs to be complete in 14 — allowing the expert one week for review, adjustment, and drafting. Synpact’s overnight turnaround model — brief submitted in the evening, first-draft model delivered the following morning — is specifically designed for the compressed timelines of litigation support work.

For rebuttal analyses — where the opposing expert’s report has just been received and the response deadline is tight — Synpact’s ability to turn around a full financial analysis in 48–72 hours is often the difference between a credible rebuttal and a rushed response that does not fully address the opposing methodology.

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Red Flags — When to Be Concerned About Your Expert’s Analysis

Before your expert’s report is finalised, review it against these red flags. Each one is a vulnerability that the opposing expert and opposing counsel will find — better to find them first.

The but-for revenue projection is higher than any year in the plaintiff’s actual history. A damages projection that requires the plaintiff to have outperformed every prior year — in the same period that the defendant’s conduct was allegedly ongoing — will face a credibility challenge. If the projection is genuinely justified (the plaintiff was on a demonstrable growth trajectory that the defendant interrupted), it needs detailed support. If it is not clearly justified, reconsider.

The expert has not addressed alternative causes of the revenue decline. If the plaintiff’s industry was in general decline during the damages period — due to market conditions, technological disruption, or competitive pressure — and the expert attributes 100% of the decline to the defendant without addressing these factors, the analysis is incomplete and will be challenged.

The discount rate is not documented. Every discount rate used in a present value calculation should be supported by specific market data as of the measurement date. A bare rate — “I used 12% as the discount rate” without further explanation — will not survive Daubert scrutiny.

The expert has not considered mitigation. Even a brief analysis concluding that mitigation was not reasonably available is better than no mitigation analysis at all. An expert report that is entirely silent on mitigation will invite the opposing expert to present a mitigation analysis at trial.

The damages number is round. A damages conclusion of exactly $10,000,000 or exactly $5,500,000 — without a detailed calculation that produces that number — suggests backward reasoning from a desired outcome rather than forward analysis from financial data. Damages conclusions should be the output of a detailed calculation, not a round number.

The comparable companies are not comparable. An expert who uses large-cap public companies as comparables for a small private company — without adjustment — is applying a methodology that will be challenged on both the revenue projection and the discount rate. The comparables must be genuinely similar to the plaintiff on sector, size, revenue model, and growth profile.

Conclusion: The Expert Is Only as Strong as the Analysis Behind Them

Economic damages litigation is won or lost on the quality of the financial analysis. A credentialed, experienced testifying expert — with a clear, comprehensible presentation style and the ability to withstand cross-examination — is essential. But the expert’s credibility is built on the rigour of the underlying analysis: the but-for model, the cost categorisation, the discount rate methodology, the mitigation analysis, the rebuttal of the opposing expert’s methodology.

That analytical infrastructure is what Synpact provides. Our CFA-qualified team produces the financial models, comparable company analysis, present value calculations, and rebuttal analyses that litigation attorneys and their retained experts rely on to build defensible damages cases.

If you are preparing for an economic damages engagement — whether as the retaining attorney, the retained expert, or the opposing expert preparing a rebuttal — and you need analytical support at the rigour level that holds up in court, submit a brief today.

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