Christopher Laursen, President
Consultant and Expert Witness covering financial institutions, products, markets, risk management, regulation, governance & accounting
Christopher Laursen is a leading expert in financial institutions, markets, and products, as well as financial company risk management, regulation, and accounting. With 30 years of industry experience, he has served as a Federal financial company policy maker and regulator, consultant to public and private clients, and testifying expert.
Mr. Laursen served as the Federal Reserve Board’s Manager of Risk Policy and Guidance as well as the Head of Trading and Capital Markets Risk. He also served for over a decade as an examiner for the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
As a testifying expert, Mr. Laursen has opined on topics including trading and lending standards, product-specific risks, accounting, regulatory compliance, macroeconomic effects, industry custom and practice, valuation, damages, and fiduciary duties.
Mr. Laursen’s engagements have covered instruments including mortgage and asset-backed securities, options and swaps, structured notes, equity securities, municipal and corporate bonds, foreign exchange, bank and broker dealer loans, mutual funds, deposit accounts, insurance, pension funds, IRAs, private equity, and hedge funds.
Alison Fitzgerald, Director
Alison Fitzgerald provides litigation and advisory consulting support in matters involving securities and financial markets, risk management, and regulation. She has extensive experience working with large data sets, calculating and evaluating valuations and damages, and developing discounted cashflow models for clients. Her litigation and arbitration work also includes researching and calculating risk metrics related to traded securities and indices.
Ms. Fitzgerald has also run the operations side of several small business and non-profit organizations, managing day-to-day, marketing, and business development activities. She currently sits on the Board as Treasurer of a local non-profit, and holds a MA in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
