Expert Witness Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. Janet Tavakoli, President 360 E. Randolph St. Suite 3007 Chicago, Illinois 60601 USA (312) 540-0243 jt@tavakolistructuredfinance.com Structured Finance and Corporate Finance: Capital markets, securitization, derivatives, securities, special purpose entities, special purpose vehicles, bankruptcy, commodities, guarantees, hedge funds, and hedging.

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, Mayer Brown, 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:

Tavakoli Structured Finance 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. No information besides terms of business will be provided to prevent designation without permission. 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 full contact details, the case name, including all plaintiffs and defedants, 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.

• Experienced Expert Report and successful Expert Rebuttal Report in major complex securities fraud case while pitted against other top industry experts.
  
• Experienced expert Consulting and Expert Witness Testimony in complex Structured Finance matters: Asset Backed Securities, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Credit Derivatives, Special Purpose Entities, Traditional Derivatives, Risk Management, Synthetic Securities, Securitization, and Cash Securities.Reviews facts, documents, performs own analysis, and writes own report. Unparralled command of facts and industry practices.
  
• Deposition in major complex securities fraud case. Successful outcome for client against other top industry experts.
  
  

Topics of Expertise:

• Capital Markets and Finance
  
  
• Synthetic Securitization.
  
  
• Special Purpose Entities - SPEs - Special Purpose Vehicles - SPVs

• Asset Backed Securities
  
  
• Collateralized Debt Obligations- CDOs
  
  
• Hedge Funds
  
  
• Securities

• Credit derivatives

• Derivatives - Swaps, Options, Futures, Forwards

• Commodities Trading - Hedge Funds - market dynamics, market making issues, phantom commodiites, attempted trading manipulation.

• Legitimate uses of structured financial products - securitization, asset backed securities, synthetic securitization, credit derivatives in securitizations, repackaging, alternative risk transfer mechanisms, hedge funds.

• Illegitimate uses of structured financial products - cross border gaming, cash flow diversion, phantom corporations, cash flow translation.