T.A. Myers & Co. is a nationally recognized firm of Certified Public Accountants, other professionals and leading scholars that specialize in forensic accounting services, litigation support, and consulting services, as well as providing training to numerous financial institutions, government regulators, law enforcement agencies, law firms, trade groups, and other business entities.

Formed in 1980 by its principal, Thomas A. Myers, T.A. Myers & Co. has broad experience in providing consulting and training services to virtually every segment of the financial services industry covering a wide range of topics including reasonable and prudent policies and procedures, problem asset management, directors’ and officers’ liability, commercial fraud, securities fraud, and structured finance. Notable clients for whom we have provided consulting and/or training services include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, the United States Department of Justice, the United States Attorney General's Office, the Federal Reserve, the Advanced White Collar Crime School (presented by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for representatives of the OCC, OTS, FDIC, and NCUA), the American Bankers Association, and numerous national law firms.

T.A. Myers & Co. also provides extensive professional services in complex commercial litigation involving, among other things, public company fraud, shareholder derivative litigation, independent auditor liability and sophisticated banking issues. Our firm has been sought out on numerous occasions for its forensic investigatory acumen by some of the most prominent national law firms to review complex pleadings and complaints in connection with many of the largest banking and capital markets players in the world. The firm has extensive experience in the analysis of subprime lending and regulatory matters ranging from mortgage servicing and originations, to litigation involving complex billion dollar credit card, mortgage and automobile securitization accounting and finance issues, and we have consulted on a myriad of situations involving litigation related thereto. We have been involved on various occasions in situations related to corporate backdated option scenarios, including related accounting, tax, securities fraud and shareholder derivative implications.

T.A. Myers & Co. has provided expert witness testimony and expert analysis in numerous notable cases including critical testimony for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the landmark In the Matter of Bank of Boston, dealing with false and misleading disclosures by management, the DPL shareholder derivative case, which settled for $143 million, and the securities fraud class action lawsuit against BankAmerica, which was resolved for a then-record cash settlement of $490 million. T.A. Myers & Co. also provided extensive technical assistance in drafting one of the major Enron complaints and subsequent pleadings. Our principle, Thomas A. Myers, also testified in a case of first impression against a well known (now defunct) Wall Street firm, which became the first investment banking firm in history to be held liable in a securitization for the fraud of the issuer. Recently, T.A. Myers & Co. has provided expert witness or litigation consultation services in actions involving AIG, Ambac, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Countrywide, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, KeyCorp, MBIA, McGraw-Hill, Merrill Lynch, Moody's, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Wachovia, and Bernie Madoff, among others

In addition to the services previously described, T.A. Myers & Co. has frequently provided input and consulting for government regulators, including testimony before the United States Congress to critique proposed revisions to banking regulations and prepared a report for the Congressional record dealing with the liability of professionals from various disciplines for losses to financial institutions resulting from fraud and/or negligent acts. In 2009, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve engaged Mr. Myers to develop and chair a week-long symposium regarding structured finance products in Washington, D. C. for representatives of each of the major federal banking regulatory agencies to discuss issues including CDO valuation, credit analysis, modeling of the cash flow waterfall, securitization issues including credit enhancement and subordination, credit default swap credit events, the role of the credit rating agencies, and other relevant issues.

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