Jonathan Eargle, CPA, ABV, CFE, is an Director at GlassRatner in the South Florida practice. He has more than 13 years of relevant experience providing services across complex commercial litigation support, bankruptcy and insolvency matters, turnaround and restructuring engagements, and business valuation assignments.
Mr. Eargle has extensive litigation support experience that includes expert witness services, fact witness testimony, consulting services, and financial analysis. He has assisted commercial litigation attorneys, bankruptcy attorneys, real estate attorneys, panel bankruptcy trustees, court appointed receivers, plan administrators, assignees, chief restructuring officers, chief liquidating officers, and secured lenders. His work has also included engagements performed for governmental agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, the Florida State Attorney, and the Boca Raton Police Department.
Mr. Eargle’s prominent matters include serving as a primary member of a Chapter 11 restructuring team for a large drug rehabilitation facility in Lake Worth, Florida, assisting in the multimillion dollar sale of the facility and corresponding assets. He has also served as a primary member of litigation teams analyzing and prosecuting matters involving alleged Ponzi schemes, misappropriation of funds, commercial office leasing disputes, luxury car dealership insolvencies, and structured medical settlement transactions resulting in lost profits and economic damage calculations.
In 2024, Mr. Eargle became a board member of the Florida Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, where he also serves on the programs committee. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Bar Association, and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
He earned a Bachelor of Accounting from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Accounting from Florida International University. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Florida, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and Accredited in Business Valuation.
- Construction Litigation
- Damages & Lost Profit Analysis
- Due Diligence
- Forensic Accounting
- Fraud Investigation
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation Support
- Ponzi Schemes
- Valuation
- White Collar Crime
- Bankruptcy Proceedings
- Financial Advisor
- Solvency Opinions
- Turnaround/Restructurings
- Primary member of Chapter 11 restructuring team for The Treatment Center of the Palm Beaches, LLC, a large drug rehabilitation facility in Lake Worth, FL. Assisted in the multi million dollar sale of the facility and corresponding assets.
- Primary member of the litigation team assisting the FL State Attorney in analyzing and prosecuting a large automotive dealership that was operating as a Ponzi Scheme in Palm Beach County, FL.
- Calculated and testified regarding the misappropriation of funds and other disputes in connection with a commercial office leasing business operating in Pompano Beach, FL.
- Financial advisor to Chapter 7 Trustee of luxury car dealership in Boca Raton, FL, that resulted in several dozen legal actions including Ponzi actions, Civil RICO actions, usury claims, professional malpractice claims, solvency opinions, and avoidable transfer and preference claims.
- Analysis and calculation of lost profits and economic damages incurred by purchasing entity of structured medical settlements.