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Elizabeth Kroger Davis

Managing Director

For over 30 years, Elizabeth Kroger Davis has provided forensic accounting, expert consulting, and expert testimony services to law firms on complex matters that require expertise in finance, accounting, auditing, economics, and valuation.

She has provided expert consulting and/or forensic accounting services on some of the largest financial market and financial antitrust disputes of the past decades, matters involving damages, market manipulation, the fair value of financial instruments, post-acquisition disputes, alleged shareholder dilution, exchange trading, Ponzi schemes, fraud, and pre-arranged, unauthorized, and tax-motivated trading. She has consulted on disputes involving a variety of financial instruments including, but not limited to, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, stock lending, futures, options, collateralized mortgage obligations, government securities, auction rate securities, repurchase agreements, commodities and other securitized assets and derivatives.

In addition to consulting on commercial damages on financial market disputes, Ms. Kroger Davis has consulted and testified on a variety of matters including damages related to renewable energy credits, alleged false advertising, intellectual property, contract disputes, employment disputes, and matters pertaining to class certification.

On certain high profile disputes, Ms. Kroger Davis has been retained by counsel to provide strategic consulting advice on liability and damages issues across interrelated teams of accountants, academics, financial experts, data teams and other technical experts, and later to provide trial support.

With a background in auditing and a half decade as a partner in the office of general counsel at a large public accounting firm, Ms. Kroger Davis has also 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.  In 2021, she was awarded the Women in Consulting Lifetime Achievement award by Consulting Magazine.  She was a member of the Leadership Counsel for BRG in 2018 through 2021.

Employment History

Finance Scholars Group
Managing director
2009 – 2013

Davis Consulting
Owner and president
2009

CRA International
Vice president
2007 – 2008

Navigant Consulting
Managing director
2005 – 2007

Arthur Andersen
Partner
1996 – 2002
Manager, Senior, Staff consultant
1983 – 1996

Credentials

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)

Areas of Expertise

Education

University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business (now Booth School of Business)
MBA, Finance, 1991

Southern Methodist University
Cox School of Business
BBA, Accounting, 1984

Recognition

Named to the first-ever listing of Lawdragon 100 “Legal Consultants You Need to Know” (2009).

This award recognized leading providers of strategic and leadership advice.