News | February 16, 2026
The London appointment expands the firm’s capabilities in product safety, crisis management, materials science, risk assessment, and high-stakes failure analysis.
Mr. Marcus has more than 35 years of experience advising clients on commercial disputes and litigation, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, security and business valuation, solvency analysis, and investment decision-making. His work also includes advising clients on independent fundamental research and due diligence, strategic planning and financial analysis, raising and providing capital, and originating, structuring, and negotiating complex financial transactions.
Paul Marcus has more than 35 years of experience advising clients on commercial disputes and litigation, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, security and business valuation, solvency analysis, investment decision-making. His work also includes advising clients on independent fundamental research and due diligence, strategic planning and financial analysis, raising and providing capital, and originating, structuring, and negotiating complex financial transactions.
Mr. Marcus has analyzed hundreds of businesses to evaluate valuation, solvency, lending, and investments and advise on financial strategy, mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, and dispute resolution. As a dispute consultant, he has been asked to value businesses and securities, determine damages resulting from fraud allegations, develop an understanding of complex financial transactions and their practical economic results evaluate lost profits, and perform numerous other analyses.
In addition, Mr. Marcus leads large investigation teams for clients such as the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy Examiner and the Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities. He is qualified to testify in Federal Court, State Court (including the Delaware Chancery Court), FINRA arbitrations, and AAA arbitrations.
Mr. Marcus’s experience spans numerous industries, including technology (hardware and software), biotechnology, manufacturing, distribution, financial services, professional services, utilities and energy, telecommunications, and textiles.
Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) recognizes Mr. Marcus as a Global Leader Experts – Financial Advisory and Valuation – Quantum of Damages 2021:
Mr. Marcus is “very knowledgeable in financial economics and damages” and earns further praise for being “incredibly responsive, critically thinking, and extremely thoughtful.”
The London appointment expands the firm’s capabilities in product safety, crisis management, materials science, risk assessment, and high-stakes failure analysis.
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