F&M provides detailed analysis of financial transactions and management conduct for banks, savings and loans, mortgage brokerage and service firms, stock brokerage houses and insurance companies involved in litigation.

• Experienced Big Four CPAs with accounting, auditing and tax expertise
• Experienced expert witnesses
• Experienced investment banker
• Evaluation of lending, servicing and other financial institution activities
• Evaluation of applied accounting principles and auditing standards
• Analysis of brokerage portfolio activity and policyholder claims
• Pre-trial issues analysis
• Evaluation and calculation of damages
• Discovery assistance, including depositions, documents and interrogatories
• Experienced with settlement and Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures

• F&M valued a $32 billion National Bank and its holding company in order to determine whether certain pre-bankruptcy transactions were actually fraudulent conveyances.
• F&M analyzed a $4 million check embezzlement case brought by a bank customer, demonstrating that the customer's deficient internal accounting controls were the principal factors in the embezzlement, not the bank's actions.
• F&M analysis in a matter involving an alleged audit failure in a bank showed that the auditor had complied with GAAS, thus avoiding liability for millions of dollars in damages.
• F&M prepared a financial model for a property and casualty insurer, projecting operating results "but for" the failure of reinsurers to make payments on a timely basis, resulting in a multi-million dollar recovery.
• F&M testified at trial on the activities of an insurance group in a $250 million civil disgorgement action that resulted in a defense verdict.