Background

Scott Hakala is a Managing Director with more than four decades of experience working with finance, economics, statistics, and business valuation theory. He joined Marshall & Stevens in 2024, with the acquisition of ValueScope. He works primarily in litigation expert witness services and financial valuation. 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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