Harper Hofer and Associates

Economic Damages

Whether you’re the plaintiff or the defendant, you need someone who can tell the money side. We are experts in breaking down complex financial matters into easy-to-understand concepts for both judges and juries. We leverage our knowledge and experience to develop complex models to quantify economic damages, whether they be from contract disputes, fraud, lost earnings, or something else. If your matter requires financial analyses and conclusions, we can help. 

We value our role as objective financial experts, arriving at conclusions through critical analysis, uncolored by bias.  We’ve been hired as experts in both criminal and civil matters and have testified in Federal and State courts. We work with attorneys as a team to provide the best support possible for your case. We have also served as special masters in select cases, allowing us to leverage both our expertise and our role as a trusted and objective third party. 

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Economic Damage Services

Damages often arise from contract disputes, intellectual property infringement, and post-acquisition disagreements. Reliably quantifying damages hinges on ensuring a causal link exists and developing an accurate and reliable financial analysis. This analysis determines what profits a business lost or how much value the owners lost as a result of the event subject to dispute. 

Sometimes it is unclear whether a fraud has taken place. Investigations of suspected fraud require discretion so that targets are not alerted and to ensure that innocent individuals do not fall under suspicion. Whether the fraud be misappropriation of assets, a Ponzi scheme, or inaccurate financial reporting, we employ a variety of tools and approaches to investigate, uncover, and quantify the fraudulent activity. We complement our work in this area with expertise in asset tracing, allowing us to identify the destination of stolen funds that can lead to their eventual recovery. 

Wrongful termination, personal injury, and wrongful death cases involve the determination of a person’s lost earnings over the remainder of his or her lifetime. To do this, we employ sophisticated economic analysis that incorporates the injured party’s personal, professional, and family history with his or her future outlook. 

Much like marriages, sometimes partnerships simply don’t work out. When that happens, the business should be accurately valued to ensure all parties are treated fairly. Our team of credentialed valuation professionals use specially tailored models to value the business and the underlying interests, providing you with a reliable opinion of value. 

Determining if a business is solvent is an important piece of bankruptcy proceedings, workout situations, and evaluating the fairness of administrative penalties. We combine our accounting background with our experience in developing projections to figure out if a business or individual is solvent or not.  

Whether as a stand-alone engagement or as a piece of a larger project, determining if a group of companies and/or individuals act as a single economic unit can make or break the ability to seek and collect damages. We delve into financial records and business documents to evaluate if entities are truly separate or operate in unison as one entity. 

Commercial
Damages

 

Damages often arise from contract disputes, intellectual property infringement, and post-acquisition disagreements. Reliably quantifying damages hinges on ensuring a causal link exists and developing an accurate and reliable financial analysis. This analysis determines what profits a business lost or how much value the owners lost as a result of the event subject to dispute.

Fraud Investigations
and Analyses

Sometimes it is unclear whether a fraud has taken place. Investigations of suspected fraud require discretion so that targets are not alerted and to ensure that innocent individuals do not fall under suspicion. Whether the fraud be misappropriation of assets, a Ponzi scheme, or inaccurate financial reporting, we employ a variety of tools and approaches to investigate, uncover, and quantify the fraudulent activity. We complement our work in this area with expertise in asset tracing, allowing us to identify the destination of stolen funds that can lead to their eventual recovery.

Lost
Earnings

Wrongful termination, personal injury, and wrongful death cases involve the determination of a person’s lost earnings over the remainder of his or her lifetime. To do this, we employ sophisticated economic analysis that incorporates the injured party’s personal, professional, and family history with his or her future outlook.

Business
Divorces

 

 

Much like marriages, sometimes business partnerships simply don’t work out. When that happens, the business should be accurately valued to ensure all parties are treated fairly. Our team of credentialed valuation professionals use specially tailored models to value the business and the underlying interests, providing you with a reliable opinion of value.

 

Solvency
Analysis

 

 

Determining if a business is solvent is an important piece of bankruptcy proceedings, workout situations, and evaluating the fairness of administrative penalties. We combine our accounting background with our experience in developing projections to figure out if a business or individual is solvent or not.

 

Alter Ego
Analysis

Whether as a stand-alone engagement or as a piece of a larger project, determining if a group of companies and/or individuals act as a single economic unit can make or break the ability to seek and collect damages. We delve into financial records and business documents to evaluate if entities are truly separate or operate in unison as one entity.

Commercial
Damages

 

Damages often arise from contract disputes, intellectual property infringement, and post-acquisition disagreements. Reliably quantifying damages hinges on ensuring a causal link exists and developing an accurate and reliable financial analysis. This analysis determines what profits a business lost or how much value the owners lost as a result of the event subject to dispute.

Fraud Investigations
and Analyses

Sometimes it is unclear whether a fraud has taken place. Investigations of suspected fraud require discretion so that targets are not alerted and to ensure that innocent individuals do not fall under suspicion. Whether the fraud be misappropriation of assets, a Ponzi scheme, or inaccurate financial reporting, we employ a variety of tools and approaches to investigate, uncover, and quantify the fraudulent activity. We complement our work in this area with expertise in asset tracing, allowing us to identify the destination of stolen funds that can lead to their eventual recovery.

Lost
Earnings

Wrongful termination, personal injury, and wrongful death cases involve the determination of a person’s lost earnings over the remainder of his or her lifetime. To do this, we employ sophisticated economic analysis that incorporates the injured party’s personal, professional, and family history with his or her future outlook.

Solvency
Analysis

 

 

Determining if a business is solvent is an important piece of bankruptcy proceedings, workout situations, and evaluating the fairness of administrative penalties. We combine our accounting background with our experience in developing projections to figure out if a business or individual is solvent or not.

 

Business
Divorces

 

Much like marriages, sometimes business partnerships simply don’t work out. When that happens, the business should be accurately valued to ensure all parties are treated fairly. Our team of credentialed valuation professionals use specially tailored models to value the business and the underlying interests, providing you with a reliable opinion of value.

Alter Ego
Analysis

 

 

Whether as a stand-alone engagement or as a piece of a larger project, determining if a group of companies and/or individuals act as a single economic unit can make or break the ability to seek and collect damages. We delve into financial records and business documents to evaluate if entities are truly separate or operate in unison as one entity.