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Damages & Forensic Accounting

Financial exposure, stated as a range with named assumptions.

What is damages and forensic accounting at iDS?

Damages and forensic accounting at iDS states financial exposure as a range with named assumptions. We build the counterfactual explicitly: what would have happened absent the conduct, and how sensitive the number is to each assumption behind it. Where damages rest on transactional data, the same firm that analyzed the data supports the model.

The questions we answer

  • What is the economic effect?
  • What would have happened absent the conduct?
  • How sensitive is the number to each assumption behind it?

How we work

Build the counterfactual explicitly. Where the damages rest on transactional data, the same firm that analyzed the data supports the model, so the two do not contradict each other on cross.

What you receive

Damages and valuation analysis, sensitivity testing, rebuttal of opposing financial opinions, and testimony.

Economics

Quantify damages, lost profits, and valuation in complex commercial and market disputes, with a number built to survive the expert hired to break it.

In many disputes, the number is the fight. What was lost, what it is worth, and whether the analysis behind the figure survives an opposing expert determined to break it. iDS brings decades of experience inside global financial, energy, and commodity markets to that fight, with practitioners who structured and valued complex transactions long before they were asked to opine on them, working alongside the iDS experts who uncover and validate the evidence a number rests on.

We quantify economic damages and lost profits; value businesses, assets, and financial instruments; and assess the causation that connects conduct to loss. Our team builds financial and economic models, prepares expert and rebuttal reports, and supports commercial, contract, shareholder, securities, and regulatory matters, with particular depth in energy, commodities, structured finance, and trading conduct. Every conclusion is structured for challenge and defended where it counts: in deposition, arbitration, and trial.

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Frequently asked questions

How does iDS build a damages number?

We build the counterfactual explicitly: what would have happened absent the conduct, and how sensitive the number is to each assumption behind it. Financial exposure is stated as a range with named assumptions. Every conclusion is structured for challenge and defended where it counts: in deposition, arbitration, and trial.

Why use the same firm for the data analysis and the damages model?

Where the damages rest on transactional data, the same firm that analyzed the data supports the model, so the two do not contradict each other on cross. Our economics practitioners work alongside the iDS experts who uncover and validate the evidence a number rests on.

What kinds of disputes does the economics team support?

We quantify economic damages and lost profits; value businesses, assets, and financial instruments; and assess the causation that connects conduct to loss. The team supports commercial, contract, shareholder, securities, and regulatory matters, with particular depth in energy, commodities, structured finance, and trading conduct.

Can iDS rebut the other side’s damages expert?

Yes. Deliverables include damages and valuation analysis, sensitivity testing, rebuttal of opposing financial opinions, and testimony. Our team builds financial and economic models and prepares expert and rebuttal reports, with practitioners who structured and valued complex transactions long before they were asked to opine on them.

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What is at stake

The earlier you understand the evidence, the better the decisions that follow.

The evidence is abundant. But volume is not access. Access is not understanding. And understanding is not an expert opinion.

Increasingly, evidence is buried across devices, applications, databases, cloud systems, transactions, and other complex sources. It must be found, preserved, made accessible, understood, and interpreted in the context of the matter. And when expert testimony is required, that understanding must support an independent, defensible opinion.

When important evidence surfaces late, assumptions may already have become strategy. When it is identified, tested, and understood early, your team can build its strategy around what can actually be shown. This isn’t just for trial. It is also for TROs, letters rogatory, discovery requests, subpoenas, depositions, summary judgment, mediation, and arbitration.

You bring the legal expertise. We bring the evidence expertise.

iDS combines technical, analytical, and subject-matter expertise to help you move from evidence to understanding, and, when necessary, from understanding to opinion and testimony.

You know the law. We help you know the evidence.

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Tell us what you need to establish. We will tell you what the evidence shows, what it does not, and what it means for your case.

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