Market Consulting Corporation
U.S. Securities Arbitration and Litigation Support for International Investors in San Diego County, California
Expert witness and consulting assistance for international investors or cross-border disputes involving U.S. securities, futures, brokerage accounts, and financial-industry practices.
Expert witness assistance
International investor matters often require explanation of U.S. brokerage practices, account documentation, trading authority, risk disclosure, margin, supervision, and dispute forums. MCC assists with record review, issue framing, damages analysis, and expert testimony where appropriate. The analysis remains grounded in the account documents, the applicable forum, the transactions at issue, and the questions presented by counsel.
Engagement focus
- Initial case review focused on the factual record, the questions presented, and the likely scope of expert analysis.
- Issue analysis addressing securities, futures, options, trust, portfolio-management, compliance, or industry-practice questions as applicable.
- Damages or loss analysis when the facts and engagement require quantification.
- Assistance with document requests, deposition preparation, mediation preparation, expert reports, rebuttal analysis, and testimony as appropriate.
U.S. account practices
Account-opening documents, customer profiles, risk disclosures, margin agreements, and trading authorizations may be reviewed to clarify the relationship and disputed conduct.
Cross-border fact issues
Investor location, communication records, account servicing, language, sophistication, and documentation may affect how the record is organized and analyzed.
Forum preparation
Analysis may support FINRA arbitration, mediation, court proceedings, settlement evaluation, or related dispute-resolution steps.
Issues commonly reviewed
- U.S. brokerage account opening, customer classification, risk profile, and trading authorization.
- Disclosure and communication issues involving international investors.
- Margin, liquidation, currency, transfer, custody, and cross-border account operations.
- Suitability, concentration, options, futures, selling away, private offerings, or unauthorized trading.
- Supervision, branch or representative conduct, escalation, and compliance records.
- Damages, causation, market movement, and account-performance reconstruction.
Records commonly requested
- Pleadings, statement of claim, answer, counterclaims, and amended claims.
- New account documents, customer profiles, investment objectives, risk-tolerance records, and account updates.
- Monthly statements, trade confirmations, order tickets, margin records, and cash-flow records.
- Correspondence, emails, recorded calls, notes, exception reports, and supervisory reviews.
- Product materials, offering documents, risk disclosures, prospectuses, research, and internal sales materials.
- Prior settlement discussions, mediation statements, expert disclosures, and damages calculations, when available.
Dr. Ronald W. Cornew and Market Consulting Corporation
The dispute resolution and financial consulting efforts of Market Consulting Corporation are under the direction of Dr. Ronald W. Cornew, President and Senior Consultant. Dr. Cornew personally supervises MCC case work and, when appropriate, draws on a network of industry specialists for very large or complex matters.
Case review
Request expert witness consultation
Provide the forum, parties represented, principal allegations, relevant account or transaction records, and any current deadlines. Additional documents can be exchanged after conflicts and scope are addressed.