Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.

Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc., produces exceptional quality expert report writing and crisp, persuasive testimony. Expertise in the capital markets: asset backed securities, derivatives, credit derivatives, total return swaps, interest rate swaps, options, swaptions, collateralized debt obligations, mortgage backed securities, hedge funds, special purpose entities, bonds, emerging markets, convertibles, preferred shares and common stocks.

Engagements include representatives of plaintiffs or defendants depending on the issues. Plaintiff engagements include Bank of America N.A. et al. v. Bartmann, JPM Chase, et al. Total claims in the consolidated litigation exceeded $1.2 billion.

Ms. Tavakoli has over 22 years of Wall Street experience at major financial institutions in New York and London trading, structuring and selling structured financial products. Education: B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. MBA from the University of Chicago. Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business where she taught Derivatives (1999 and 2000).

Representative clients: Helms Mullis & Wicker, Day Edwards, Mayer Brown and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.

Books: Credit Derivatives 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, and Collateralized Debt Obligations and Structured Finance, John Wiley & Sons 2003.