Mark is a highly experienced commercial damages and valuation expert. Mark has been involved in numerous high profile international arbitration cases and investment treaty matters around the world involving cumulative damages claims of several billion dollars.
Mark’s engineering and finance background makes him particularly well-suited to assist clients by providing detailed quantum damages analyses in financially complex and highly technical international disputes. He has deep experience and expertise in energy, oil & gas, mining, power plant, technology and large-scale infrastructure projects and operations, among others. He has been involved in damages analyses in several international disputes around the world having claims in excess of $1 billion.
Mark has been engaged in high profile disputes involving expropriations, breach of contract, cancellations of permits and licenses, investment valuations, lost profits, shareholder valuations, and accounting fraud. He is experienced analyzing damages and working with several of the most prominent international arbitration and litigation law firms on ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, PCA, and LCIA matters.
Prior to his work as a commercial damages expert, Mark was a management consultant in the energy practices at A.T. Kearney and Booz & Co. advising global energy companies on maximizing post-merger synergy benefits for some of the largest asset acquisitions in the industry. He also advised global energy companies on strategic planning and improvement of financial returns for major capital projects around the world. Before that, he was involved in oilfield development projects at Shell Oil Company and Schlumberger.
Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- Commercial Damages & Expert Witness Services
- Economic Consulting Services
- Valuation & Lost Profits Disputes
- Fraud & Internal Investigations
- North America Oil & Gas Arbitration; Expropriation; ICSID. Dispute involving a major oil pipeline project. Valuation of investments and lost profits analysis.
- Europe, Middle East Mining Arbitration; Expropriation; ICSID. Dispute involving major gold mining exploration/development stage gold mining projects in Turkey. Valuation of investments.
- Latin America Mining and Materials Distribution Arbitration; Expropriation; ICSID. NAFTA dispute involving a major limestone quarry in Mexico. Valuation of mining operations and lost profits analysis ..
- Europe, Middle East Renewable Energy Arbitration: Expropriation; ICSID. Dispute involving cancelled solar energy projects in Turkey. Valuation of project investments and lost profits analysis.
- South America Renewable Energy Arbitration: Breach of Contract; ICC. Dispute the development and operation of a major wind farm project in Peru. Analysis of project financial returns and investments, and the project developer’s financial capacity to fund the construction and operation of the project.
- Africa Power Plant Arbitration; Breach of Contract; UNCITRAL. Dispute involving electric power plant project in Ghana. Valuation of power plant investments and lost profits analysis.
- Eastern Europe Mining Arbitration; Expropriation; PCA. Dispute involving lead, zinc and silver mine in North Macedonia. Valuation of the mining business and lost profits analysis.
- Eastern Europe Mining Arbitration: Expropriation; LCIA. Dispute involving tin mining operation in Russia. Valuation of the mining business and lost profit assessments.
- Eastern Europe Metals Processing Arbitration; Expropriation; ICSID. Dispute involving a major global aluminum producer’s operations in Ukraine. Lost profits analysis and valuation of investments.
- Latin America Mining Arbitration; Expropriation; ICSID. Dispute involving exploration/development stage gold mining project in Costa Rica. Valuation of project investments.
- Asia Mining Arbitration; Expropriation; PCA. Dispute involving major joint venture gold and copper development stage mining project. Lost profits analysis and valuation of project investments.
- South America Oil and Gas Litigation; Expropriation. Dispute involving major global oil company’s oil and gas exploration and production assets in Bolivia. Valuation of oil and gas facilities and properties.
- South America Pulp and Paper Arbitration; Breach of Contract; ICC. Financial analysis related to the failed acquisition of a Brazilian pulp and paper business.
- Asia Telecommunications Arbitration; Expropriation; ICSID. Dispute involving telecommunications project in Cambodia. Valuation of investments and assessment of lost profits claims.
- Asia Consumer Products Arbitration: Breach of Contract; PCA. Quantum damages analysis related to alleged non-payment/delayed payment of Award and interest to Iranian investors in Korea.
- Retail and Consumer Products Litigation; Malpractice. Dispute involving major U.S. consumer product company’s import duties related to China manufacturing. Financial analysis of excess duties costs and impact on lost profits.
- Eastern Europe Banking Arbitration; Expropriation; SCC. Filed expert report involving expropriation of major Russian bank’s multi-billion-dollars’ worth of investments in Ukraine.