Michelle J. Avery provides expert witness testimony and has extensive experience leading major dispute resolution engagements, providing forensic accounting and expert witness services to prominent law firms in high-profile domestic and international civil litigation involving complex accounting, financial reporting and economic damages issues. Her work frequently involves allegations of misstated financial statements, inadequate disclosures, auditor […]
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Veris from Ocean Tomo – Timely Service Expansion into Corporate Investigations
Michael Cohn, writing last week for Accounting Today, reported on the results of a poll of global anti-fraud professionals conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), which found that “71% expect the level of fraud impacting their organizations to increase over the next year.” Discovering the real story during a corporate investigation can […]
Ocean Tomo Celebrates World Intellectual Property Day 2021
Today, Ocean Tomo, the intellectual capital merchant banc™ firm, joins forces with intellectual property leaders across the globe to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. Members of our firm will participate in several World IP Day events and will share their experience via the Ocean Tomo Insights blog later this week. Small and medium sized enterprises […]
Cybersecurity Industry Update – Okta Acquisition of Auth0
Ocean Tomo Industry Analysts Joseph Sobczak and Sarah Zhu shared with me an important update on the draft of the Ocean Tomo Cybersecurity Report. In the report, they share notable M&A activity in the Cybersecurity space. Among the M&A activities they will report on in their upcoming report is the announcement yesterday from Okta, Inc. […]
Illinois Intellectual Property Alliance Five Year Vision and 2021 Strategic Plan
Yesterday the Illinois Intellectual Property Alliance (ILIPA) held its’ inaugural retreat. During the session, the group of leading intellectual property market participants throughout the state of Illinois discussed a framework for a five-year vision for the organization focused on Education & Awareness-building, Ecosystem Development, Value Creation for the State of Illinois, along with near term […]
Yuliana Sameroynina Speaks to International Audience on Intangible Assets in the Post COVID-19 Economy
Earlier today, Yuliana Sameroynina introduced a paper, co-authored with Ocean Tomo Chief Executive Jim Malackowski, Accelerating Economic Inversion in the Post COVID-19 Economy, to an international audience hosted by the Licensing Executives Society. For more than a decade Ocean Tomo has published studies documenting the growth of intangible asset value as the major component of […]
Les Nouvelles LIVE: Spotlight
Ocean Tomo Director Yuliana Sameroynina will join Les Nouvelles LIVE: Spotlight on Thursday, January 28th to introduce her paper appearing in Les Nouvelles: Accelerating Economic Inversion in the Post COVID-19 Economy. The session which presents three papers published in the December 2020 edition of Les Nouvelles and will be moderated by Dana Robert Colarulli, LESI […]
Michelle Avery Speaks at William & Mary’s Mason Summer Business Institute
Veris from Ocean Tomo’s Michelle Avery recently spoke at William & Mary’s Mason Summer Business Institute (MSBI). Michelle was selected to discuss non-traditional finance options incorporating both her background in forensic analysis and auditing and her role on the AICPA’s Financial Reporting Executive Committee (FinRec). FinREC is a senior committee of the AICPA for financial […]