Market Consulting Corporation
Securities and Futures Expert Consulting Services in Summit County, Ohio
Expert witness and litigation consulting for securities, futures, options, trust, portfolio-management, arbitration, mediation, settlement, and damages matters.
Expert witness assistance
MCC provides expert witness and financial consulting support to attorneys and parties in disputes involving securities, futures, options, brokerage accounts, investment losses, trust administration, regulatory standards, and industry practices. Engagements may involve early case review, document analysis, damages work, expert reports, rebuttal, deposition preparation, mediation support, arbitration hearing preparation, or testimony. Each assignment is scoped to the facts, forum, deadlines, and questions presented.
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.
Expert witness work
Reports, testimony, rebuttal, deposition preparation, hearing preparation, and analysis of industry-practice issues may be provided as appropriate.
Consulting support
Early case assessment, discovery focus, document review, mediation preparation, and settlement analysis may assist counsel before or during formal expert disclosure.
Financial analysis
Trading reconstruction, damages estimates, account-performance analysis, margin review, and product-risk analysis may be performed where the record supports it.
Issues commonly reviewed
- Securities arbitration, FINRA matters, mediation, state court, federal court, government enforcement, and U.S. Tax Court matters.
- Suitability, churning, unauthorized trading, selling away, options abuse, margin liquidations, supervision, and misrepresentation.
- Futures, commodities, derivatives, market timing, late trading, selective disclosure, and mutual fund practices.
- Brokerage-firm procedures, compliance, regulatory standards, account records, and customer complaints.
- Trust administration, portfolio-management practices, fiduciary issues, and damages.
- Case development, discovery, settlement evaluation, reports, testimony, and rebuttal.
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.