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.

Topics of Expertise:

• Synthetic Securitization.
  
  
• Special Purpose Entities - SPEs - Special Purpose Vehicles - SPVs

• Asset Backed Securities
  
  
• Hedge Funds
  
• Securities

• Credit derivatives

• Traditional 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.