Litigation/Valuation — Denver

303-298-9600 ext 215 | Mwester@heincpa.com

Matthew has over 17 years of varied experience in accounting and litigation and provides assistance to counsel and business management on a variety of legal disputes. His primary areas of concentration are economic damages and forensic accounting investigations. Matthew’s background also includes computer modeling, analysis and trial graphics, bankruptcy, solvency, business valuation and out-of-court debt restructurings.

 

In the area of economic damages, Matthew specializes in the calculation of damages resulting from lost profits in commercial business disputes. In these matters, he serves as a testifying expert and assists counsel with services ranging from pre-litigation damage assessments to mediation, arbitration and trial hearings. Matthew has also been a speaker for an economic damages course approved for continuing legal education in Colorado and several other Western states.

 

Matthew has extensive experience in fraud and forensic accounting investigations. He has been retained by attorneys, business owners and public companies to investigate items such as financial statement fraud, white-collar crime, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the misappropriation and tracing of assets. This experience includes electronic data analysis through the use of computer forensics, including data recovery, data conversion, data mining and database models. Matthew has also been engaged by public and private companies to assess internal controls and develop recommendations to strengthen controls.