Avram S Tucker

Avram S Tucker (Ave) is a forensic accountant with more than 40 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert on hundreds of occasions.

Ave has provided expert testimony in deposition, trial, hearings or arbitration on approximately 200 cases. He has appeared in various state and federal civil courts and administrative proceedings, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Bankruptcy Court, as well as before Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) proceedings, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Armed Service Board of Contract Appeals, the Postal Service Board of Contract Appeals, and multiple state Utility/Commerce Commissions. He has also testified in arbitrations in, or involving, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, South Africa, Switzerland, Japan, China, Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom.

Ave’s expert consulting experience includes antitrust, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, professional negligence, intellectual property issues, entertainment and sports, environmental and product defect, government contracts, real estate, securities and the SEC, shareholder disputes, construction, commercial damages, breach of contract, fraud investigations and insurance claims and coverage.  He supports clients in dispute proceedings regarding commercial damages and valuations, contractual breaches, liability, and fraud investigations. He has consulted on compliance with contractual terms and conditions (from an accounting, economic and operational perspective) relating to license, distribution, merger and acquisition, manufacturing and production, design, royalty, teaming, marketing, partnership, research and development, construction, government contracting, maintenance and other agreements. He has also consulted on the proper application of generally accepted accounting principles (covering the proper accounting and presentation on financial statements and other financial documents of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses and equity, as well as the appropriateness of financial statement disclosures).

Ave has performed more than 500 forensic accounting, economic and operational studies to address liability, causation and damages aspects of disputes in connection with litigation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, regulatory investigations and alternative dispute resolution. These studies include analysis of companies in various industries, including study of financial condition, business operations, market and economic factors, and the effects of competition. He has performed causation and liability analyses to assess specific factual allegations; reasons for changes in a company’s financial condition; causes and timing of insolvency; factors resulting in a company’s bankruptcy; financial statements, disclosures and other representations; and whether damages claimed are caused by the liability allegations in the dispute. Ave has prepared or analyzed damage claims relating to increased costs, lost profits, business value, asset value, royalties and disgorgement.

Ave is a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Global Management Accountant and is Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He has also been recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal. He regularly lectures to companies, outside counsel, industry groups and at universities, and is also an officer and member of the executive committee of the George Washington University Board of Trustees.