LCM, through an affiliation with IMS Consulting, is able to provide full operational due diligence on hedge funds and private equity funds for clients.

• Legal and compliance review to ensure that firms are in full compliance with current regulations and registrations.
• Organizational and operational review of the firm’s management, risk policies and procedures, external vendors, experience and background.
• Review of funds’ strategy including competitive advantage, viability and sustainability of returns, risks associated with investment style, comparison to peer group.
• Quantitative review of funds’ performance against peer, alpha generation against multiple benchmarks, exposure to broad market factors and specific financial markets.

Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC, an affiliated company founded by Ezra Zask in 1991, has provided expert witness support in numerous financial cases. Ezra Zask, President of LCM, has been active in the investment arena for over two decades. He has founded a successful hedge fund focused on currency and interest rate arbitrage, taught finance at Carnegie Mellon, Princeton and Yale Universities, advised hedge funds and fund of funds, and managed large scale trading operations and strategic positions for money center banks. Mr. Zask has also worked as a litigation support expert in a number of cases for the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Government of Canada, the NASD and major law firms including Weil, Gotshal & Menges; Milberg Weiss; Jones Day; Boise & Schiller.

Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC provides Expert witness testimony; Research and expert reports; Depositions; NASD arbitration; Review of expert reports and opposing depositions; Statistical analysis of financial data; Case strategy development; Litigation support management. Its areas of expertise include securities and finance; derivatives; banking and investments. For further information and a full resume please go to: www.ezallc.com