Background

Scott Hakala is a Managing Director with ValueScope, a Marshall & Stevens company. He works primarily in litigation expert witness services and financial valuation.

Mr. Hakala brings to the firm extensive practical knowledge of finance, economics, statistics, and business valuation theory. His expertise includes:

• Corporate Finance
• Restructuring and Cost of Capital
• Valuation of Securities and Business Interests (e.g., transactions, mergers, acquisitions, fairness opinions)
• Valuation of Intangible Assets (e.g., patents, trademarks)
• Analysis of Publicly Traded Securities (e.g., insider trading studies, trading analyses, event analyses, materiality, damages in securities litigation)
• Expert Testimony and Economic Loss Analyses (e.g., commercial litigation)
• Wage and Compensation Determination (e.g., reasonable compensation studies, lost personal income, wrongful termination)
• Transfer Pricing
• Derivative Securities (e.g., options pricing and valuation)
• Antitrust and Industry Structure, Strategic Pricing, Marketing, and Cost Allocation Analyses.

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