Elizabeth Kroger Davis

Managing Director

Chicago

Elizabeth Kroger Davis focuses on providing both expert testimony and litigation consulting services, with an emphasis on the strategic and tactical components of high-profile litigation matters that require expertise in finance, accounting, auditing, economics, valuation, and the analysis of big data.

With more than thirty years of consulting experience, she is a managing director in BRG’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Leadership Council. A distinguishing aspect of her practice involves retentions by litigators to bring leadership and strategic coordination to matters that involve interrelated teams of accountants, academics, financial experts, and other technical experts.

Ms. Kroger Davis has been retained in some of the largest antitrust and financial market disputes of the past decades, matters involving economic damages, market manipulation, the fair value of financial instruments, post-acquisition disputes, alleged shareholder dilution, Ponzi schemes, fraud, and pre-arranged, unauthorized, and tax-motivated trading. She has consulted on disputes involving a variety of financial instruments, including credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, FX, futures, options, collateralized mortgage obligations, government securities, auction rate securities, repurchase agreements, commodities, and other securitized assets and derivatives.

Ms. Kroger Davis has also consulted and testified on a variety of matters involving commercial damages related to antitrust, alleged false advertising, IP, contract and employment disputes, and issues pertaining to class certification and ability to pay.

Ms. Kroger Davis has a background in accounting and auditing and was a partner in a large accounting firm, and she has advised counsel on dozens of civil and criminal litigation matters and regulatory investigations involving alleged violations of accounting, auditing, and other professional standards. She has also led management consulting practices dedicated to advising the legal departments of Fortune 500 companies on strategic restructuring, operational improvement, and litigation financial management strategies.

Ms. Kroger Davis received her MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Booth School of Business) and BBA from Southern Methodist University. She is a Certified Public Accountant. She was notably named to the first listing of the Lawdragon 100 “Legal Consultants You Need to Know” (2009), which recognized leading providers of strategic and leadership advice to the legal profession.