Dr. Bhagat is a nationally recognized expert on lawsuits concerning
§ Damages in securities class action litigation,
§ Governance aspects of the subprime crisis,
§ Valuation of private corporations,
§ Event studies,
§ Corporate governance and executive compensation.
Dr. Bhagat has testified in court, written expert affidavits, and been deposed by opposing attorneys.
Dr. Bhagat serves as consultant to various corporate and legal clients on
• Statistics: event studies; descriptive and inferential statistics; multivariate methods including regression, econometrics.
• Bankruptcy litigation: fraudulent conveyance, and related actions: solvency; damages; valuation; loss causation.
• Employment disputes: damages in contract dispute; lost earnings.
• Class actions: statistical analysis.
• Breach of duty: loss causation, event studies, mitigation, valuation, damages.
• Insurance and product liability: sampling and statistical analysis of claims data; loss causation and damages in business interruption claim.
• Intellectual property: lost sales and profits, business trends; reasonable royalty.
• Securities and white-collar crime: loss causation; value relevance; market efficiency; damages; event studies.
Dr. Bhagat has served as board member of
§ Integra Ventures, a venture-capital company;
§ The K-Group, an internet-based next-generation business solutions company;
§ OptTek, a leading provider of optimization software; and
§ NACD Colorado Chapter.
Dr. Bhagat has published extensively in the leading Finance and Law academic journals, such as, the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, American Law and Economics Review, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law.
Served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, and Journal of Corporate Finance. His work is regularly cited in the popular and financial media such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Economist, New York Times; please visit his home-page
http://leeds.colorado.edu/faculty/bhagat.
