Corporate/Commercial Litigation Support

We provide litigators and their clients with financial litigation support and expert evidence regarding financial issues and loss, value and other financial quantifications in corporate/commercial matters. This includes economic loss/damage quantification, business valuation and complementary investigative and forensic accounting services.

This work is done in a wide variety of dispute contexts, from contract disputes to tort claims, from class actions to shareholder disputes. Cole & Partners are recognized experts in this area, having written and lectured widely on these subject areas for the legal profession for many years.

IP Litigation Support

Similar to our services in corporate/commercial matters, we provide IP infringement specific services including accounting of profits calculations and damage quantification, including reasonable royalty rate calculations, Cole & Partners are recognized experts in this area, having written and lectured widely on the subject for the legal profession for many years.

Family Law Litigation Support

We provide family law lawyers with litigation support and expert evidence regarding quantitative issues in family law. This includes valuation concepts, Net Family Property determination, taxation, Child Support Guidelines, Income Analysis, structuring the equalization payment. Cole & Partners are recognized experts in this area, having written and lectured widely on the subject for the legal profession for many years.

Competition Law and Related Litigation Support

We provide competition lawyers, including litigators, and their clients with litigation support and expert evidence regarding quantitative, business and financial issues in competition matters. Under the Merger Enforcement Guidelines, this includes quantifying efficiencies under the Efficiency Exception and evaluating a Failing Firm, as well as Anti-competitive pricing issues.

Cole & Partners are recognized experts in this area, having written and lectured widely on the subject for the legal profession for many years. Since our involvement in the precedent setting merger of Superior Propane and ICG we have been at the forefront in the quantification of efficiencies under the Efficiency Exception.