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 Tavakoli
Structured Finance, Inc.®
Janet Tavakoli, President
360 E. Randolph St. Suite 3007
Chicago, Illinois 60601 USA
(312) 540-0243
jt@tavakolistructuredfinance.com
Tavakoli
Structured Finance ® (TSF®)
provides
expert experience and knowledge about maximizing value
in the
capital markets in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Clients
include financial institutions, institutional investors,
and corporations with a focus
on structured financial products and corporate finance.
Ms. Tavakoli was far ahead of the financial industry in pointing out the
problems with the lax underwriting and rating of structured financial products
noting underwriters are responsible for performing due diligence appropriate
to the circumstances and must disclose material information. In
her
2003
book Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (and in
earlier articles and books), Ms. Tavakoli pointed out grave flaws in the methodology
for rating
structured
financial products.Ms.
Tavakoli's was the first letter the SEC posted in February 2007 in response to
its proposed rules for the credit rating agencies; she made the case that
the
NRSRO
designation for the rating agencies
should be revoked for structured products.
International Monetary
Fund - Excerpt of Speech on credit derivatives and flawed ratings for structured
finance products (April 2005): »VIDEO:
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - April 2005
The Omaha Model™ is
a TSF method
for trading credit derivatives and hedging portfolios
of credit derivative products. This is an improvement over
correlation models and Monte Carlo based models.
CDO
UltraStream™ is
a TSF proprietary
investment optimization product. TSF aids
financial institutions in negotiations to avoid legal battles
and quickly achieve
satisfactory financial outcomes.
- Dispute Resolution and Negotiation - without
Lawyers
- Corporate Finance - Reducing
costs through securitization.
- Asset Backed Securities and CDOs - Collateralized
Debt Obligations.
- Credit Derivatives: Credit Default Swaps and Total Return
Swaps and Traditional Derivatives Cash and Synthetic Collateralized
Debt Obligations and Traditional Securities.
- Special Purpose Entities, SPEs, Special Purpose Vehicles,
SPVs - Corporate Finance.
- Cash and Synthetic Securitization - New Product Development,
Asset Management, Corporate Governance.
- Derivatives Trading - Optimization, Risk Management, Corporate
Governance, Expert Witness Testimony, Sarbanes-Oxley issues.
- Opportunistic performance strategies
- Structured finance product development
- Competitive trends and best practices
- Global investor demand
- Global market growth trends
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Keynote
Speaker - Contact TSF for Speaking Fees
Janet
Tavakoli has recently declined pro bono speaking
and/or consulting requests from the following entities:
The
Federal Reserve Bank (Fed), Office
of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), U. S. Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs;
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bank for International Settlements
(BIS), the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB),
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC), the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD),
and the CFA Institute.
- See the news section
for recently published articles by Janet
Tavakoli on current
topics
in structured finance and for other articles
in which
Tavakoli
Structured
Finance has been quoted. Some
articles (and all proprietary research) are available only
to clients.
Engagements
include representatives of plaintiffs or defendants depending
on the issues. Plaintiff
engagements include Bank of America N.A. et al. v.
Bartmann, JPM Chase, et al. Total claims in
the consolidated
litigation exceeded $1.2 billion.
Tavakoli
produces
exceptional
quality
expert
report writing and crisp, persuasive testimony.
Representative clients: Helms Mullis & Wicker, Day
Edwards, Mayer
Brown and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.
For
your protection, the following protocol
is
enforced for all lawyers:
TSF
will not accept phone calls or meetings
prior
to
being
retained. This prevents unethical false
claims
by
lawyers
of having obtained a preliminary opinion
and/or
false
claims that opposing counsel has conflicted
out
TSF
from a case. Phone
calls
and
meetings
will
be
arranged
only
after
TSF is retained.
The partner in charge
of the case - with the authority to hire experts - should
send either a letter or an email with the firm's full
contact details, the case name, including all plaintiffs
and defendants, and the requested scope of work. TSF
will perform a conflicts check. If there is no conflict,
TSF will send its terms and conditions of business. Once
these terms are met and TSF is formally engaged, phone
calls and meetings will be arranged.
TSF provides
experienced expert consulting,
report
writing, rebuttal report writing and
expert
testimony in complex structured
finance
matters and the capital markets:
securitization,
asset backed securities,
collateralized
debt obligations, credit
derivatives,
special purpose entities, traditional
derivatives,
risk management, synthetic securities,
and
cash securities.
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