Market Consulting Corporation
Securities, Futures, and Investment Dispute Expert Witness Consulting in South Dakota
Market Consulting Corporation provides expert witness and financial consulting assistance in securities, futures, options, trust, arbitration, mediation, settlement, and litigation matters.
Expert witness assistance
MCC assists attorneys and parties by reviewing account records, reconstructing transactions, evaluating industry-practice issues, preparing damages analysis when appropriate, and providing expert reports or testimony when the engagement requires it. The work is performed under the direction of Dr. Ronald W. Cornew, President and Senior Consultant. Opinions are developed from the documents, the applicable standards, the forum, and the questions presented.
The initial review is most productive when counsel can identify the forum, procedural posture, claims or defenses, key account records, deadlines, and the specific expert questions under consideration.
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.
Securities and brokerage disputes
Assistance may involve suitability, churning, unauthorized trading, selling away, misrepresentation, margin liquidations, options abuse, supervision, and Regulation Best Interest issues.
Futures, options, and derivatives
MCC may review trading records, leverage, margin, product risks, customer authorization, disclosure, clearing or exchange context, and damages.
Mediation, arbitration, and court
Expert analysis may support early case assessment, settlement evaluation, mediation, FINRA arbitration, state or federal court proceedings, government enforcement matters, or U.S. Tax Court matters.
Issues commonly reviewed
- Securities and investment suitability.
- Unauthorized trading and discretionary authority.
- Churning, excessive trading, turnover, and cost-to-equity.
- Failure to supervise and branch-office compliance.
- Options abuse, futures, commodities, margin, and derivatives.
- Selling away, private offerings, misrepresentation, and fiduciary-duty issues.
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.