Jim Bergman Email & Phone Number

Orange County, California Area

Jim Bergman is a CFA specializing in intellectual property, commercial and bankruptcy litigation. He has served as an expert in a wide range of cases involving complex litigation, patent and technology disputes, trade secrets, trademarks, securities litigation, business valuation, bankruptcy reorganization, solvency and general damages. Mr. Bergman has substantial experience in the analysis of intellectual property, derivatives, fixed income and equity valuation, corporate finance, intercompany transactions and preferred stock. He has testified multiple times in federal court and arbitration proceedings, including a recent $236 million jury verdict in Densify v. VMware. Mr. Bergman has also been involved in a number of other high-profile intellectual property cases (including Ericsson v. Apple), and has worked extensively on some of the nation's largest bankruptcy matters, including Adelphia, Tribune, Lehman Brothers, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Los Angeles

Jim Bergman, CFA, was a shareholder at Conway MacKenzie and the head of the intellectual property litigation group. He specialized in intellectual property, commercial and bankruptcy litigation and has been hired as a testifying expert and as an expert consultant in a wide range of cases involving complex litigation, patent and technology disputes, trade secrets, securities litigation, valuation, bankruptcy reorganization and general damages.

Los Angeles

Financial consultant for the Commercial, Intellectual Property, and Bankruptcy Litigation groups.Served as an expert consultant on large and complex cases involving patent litigation, securities litigation, valuation, bankruptcy reorganization and general damages. Major cases involve analysis of intellectual property, fixed income and equity valuation, corporate finance, and intercompany transactions.Served as a technical consultant for the Intellectual Property group on matters involving programming, software, hardware and networking. Involved in the firm’s initial analysis of patents for infringement, validity and potential recoveries.Specialized in the development of complex computerized damage and economic assessment models.Qualified as an expert in data analysis and testified in federal court.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Financial Analyst for the Business Solutions & Governance and Intellectual Property Litigation groups.Served as an expert consultant on large and complex cases involving securities litigation, valuation, bankruptcy reorganization, intellectual property and general damages. Major cases involve analysis of derivatives, fixed income and equity valuation, corporate finance, corporate governance, intercompany transactions, and leveraged buyouts.Involved in a number of the nation's largest bankruptcy cases including Tribune, Lehman Brothers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Los Angeles

Financial consultant for the Complex Litigation and Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy departments.Served as an expert consultant on large and complex cases involving securities litigation, valuation, bankruptcy reorganization and general damages. Major cases involved analysis of derivatives, fixed income and equity valuation, corporate finance, preferred stock, corporate governance, intercompany transactions, leveraged buyouts, hotel valuations, intellectual property and deferred compensation plans.Involved in a number of the nation's largest bankruptcy and litigation cases including Adelphia Brothers, Tribune and Lehman Brothers.Served as a technical consultant for the Complex Litigation, and Intellectual Property groups on matters involving programming, software, hardware and networking.

Los Angeles, Ca

Responsible for all aspects of the firm’s information systems including research of new technologies, designing and deploying new projects, and day-to-day administration of the network including hardware, software, email, Internet, Intranet, firewalls, routers, virtual private networking, and litigation support.Implemented custom knowledge management solution integrating the firm’s litigation support system, document management system and various collaboration tools.Researched, designed and implemented an in-house litigation support system resulting in the transfer of the litigation support system from an outside service bureau to an in-house operation.

Responsible for the administration and maintenance of the information systems and telecommunications for the four California offices of the firm.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Mba

Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

B.A., Economics