
Governance, Risk, Investigations and Disputes
Combined Duff & Phelps and Kroll disputes, investigations, cyber, business intelligence, cross-border restructuring and other advisory.
Jaime d’Almeida is an expert affiliate at Duff & Phelps. He focuses on providing expert testimony in corporate finance matters, specializing in shareholder disputes, appraisal rights, business divorces, solvency analyses, preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, breaches of contract, merger and acquisition disputes, copyright and trademark disputes, and other commercial and economic damages analyses.
Jaime has over 20 years of experience in economic and valuation analysis and consulting, and has provided both deposition and trial testimony on valuation and damages issues.
Jaime has been involved in numerous dispute matters and has advised clients on a wide variety of topics including: asset-backed securities, business valuation, tangible and intangible asset valuation, solvency, financial analysis, investment analysis, fairness and solvency opinions, and analysis of complex financial structures. Jaime has worked on matters involving numerous industries and has extensive experience in the private capital space.
Jaime co-leads Duff & Phelps’ annual review of Delaware Court of Chancery opinions, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at both Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. He is a frequent speaker and author and his corporate finance expertise has been featured in publications such as Business Valuation Review, Valuation Strategies, Law360.com, ABI Journal, and the Value Examiner.
Jaime was a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps through 2018 working in the Disputes & Investigations practice out of Boston. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Jaime was a senior manager at Ernst & Young in their Valuation and Business Modeling group. In prior positions, he was a Manager of Economic and Regulatory Policy for Cable & Wireless’ operating companies in the Caribbean region, and a Consultant at National Economic Research Associates where he provided litigation and regulatory support in the telecommunications industry on topics including antitrust analysis, economic cost models, damage estimations, market entry issues, and economic analyses of modernizing telecommunications networks. Jaime has also worked at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities in the telecommunications sector.
Jaime received his M.B.A. in entrepreneurship from FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and his B.S. in electrical engineering/engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Jaime is also an Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers, and a Certified Fraud Examiner.
Appraisal
Bankruptcy
Business Divorce/Shareholder Disputes
Damages/Contract Disputes
Solvency/Fraudulent Transfers
Financial and Tax Reporting
Combined Duff & Phelps and Kroll disputes, investigations, cyber, business intelligence, cross-border restructuring and other advisory.
Experienced arbitrators and expert witnesses across a wide array of sectors.
Industry and technical insights to win disputes related to contractual, fiduciary or related obligations.
Assistance throughout contractual disputes.
Expert consulting and testifying services related to post-acquisition purchase price disputes.
Help to determine value for shareholder interests in private and public company disputes.
Assistance in tax and regulatory litigation and investigations.
Advising companies, financial sponsors and other stakeholders involved in challenging situations and distressed transactions.
Dispute support in claw back-related litigation.
Expert analysis to help clients understand, prevent and manage fraud.
Leading provider of IP-related strategic advisory services to allow companies, attorneys and investors to grow, protect and maximize their IP assets.
Assistance with complex securities litigation.
Providing expert analysis and testimony in the context of litigation, arbitration and other commercial disputes.