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Dana has extensive experience providing financial accounting and economic consulting services primarily in the context of commercial litigation. Her focus has been the analysis of damages due to lost profits or diminution of value related to breach of contract purchase price anti-trust and intellectual property disputes. Dana has also been involved with transfer pricing analysis SEC initiated accounting investigations and insurance claim preparation for business interruptions. She has experience in a variety of industries including telecommunications pharmaceuticals manufacturing healthcare financial services and consumer products.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Huron Dana was a manager at Arthur Andersen LLP and a research analyst with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate. Representative examples of Dana's engagement experience include:
Representative examples of Dana's engagement experience include:
Litigation consulting
Performed solvency tests for a subsidiary related to litigation involving breach of fiduciary duty by a parent company. Calculated damages arising from the termination of funding based on valuations of the company under various scenarios.
Calculated the appropriate operating income margin for a transfer pricing study and prepared the documentation for Section 6662 of the Internal Revenue Code on behalf of a multinational computer systems company.
Constructed a complex model to analyze the impact of restructuring actions on the financial performance debt structure and valuation of a leading cooperative involved in a dispute with its former auditor.
Prepared an expert report and damage claim totaling several billion dollars involving theft of technology breach of contract and anti-competitive practices on behalf of a leading chemical company.
Prepared a valuation for a Polish telecommunications company for an arbitration resulting from a breach of contract. Prepared testimony for accounting standards expert.
Developed a sensitivity model and calculated potential lost profits resulting from the departure of senior executives from an advertising agency.
Prepared an expert report evaluating a claim against the telecommunications incumbent in Australia by a reseller alleging that the provisioning and billing practices of the incumbent prevented the reseller from obtaining and keeping customers.
Prepared a lost profits claim for a Japanese food company in a breach of contract arbitration. Analyzed license agreements in calculating royalty payments.
Created submissions to the SEC in response to its investigation of one of the largest financial restatements. Prepared numerous analyses for use in defense of a related investor class action suit. Managed discovery process involving documents and personnel from more than 20 countries.
Other consulting
Assisted with an extensive review of certain accounting processes at a Fortune 100 company to provide guidance to the audit committee concerned with a potential SEC investigation.
Prepared a liquidation analysis for inclusion with disclosure statement filings and analyzed the profitability of the company's venture capital portfolio for a company emerging from one of the 20 largest bankruptcies in corporate history.
For a large apparel and food conglomerate prepared an insurance claim for hurricane property damage and related business interruption costs sustained by five companies in three countries.
Education & Certifications
Master of Business Administration Finance and Strategy Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business
Bachelor of Arts Economics and English University of Michigan
Accounting Coursework DePaul University
Certified Public Accountant Illinois
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