Intellectual Capital and Deep Litigation Experience
Cushman & Wakefield’s Dispute Analysis & Litigation Support (DALS) practice delivers a unique combination of real estate-focused knowledge, data and expertise with deep litigation experience. The professionals who comprise our DALS practice are solution providers who specialize in dispute analysis, trial support and arbitration. We have experts in damages theory, valuation, accounting, finance, economics, land use, real estate industry standards and practices, capital market issues and financial statistics modeling.
We’ve organized our DALS practice around scientific principles, intellectual rigor, collaboration and a solid understanding of litigation. Though our experts are located in all major cities across the country, we staff our engagements not by geography, but by teams of experts who possess the right combination of local market and subject matter knowledge to meet your needs. Our capabilities include:
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Breach of contract or lease
- Business valuation
- Complex business and partnership disputes
- Construction defects and delays
- Damages theory and damage calculations
- Eminent domain and property tax appeal matters
- Environmental impairment, toxic tort and detrimental conditions
- Event studies / time series analysis
- Expert witness testimony
- Fraud and forensic investigations
- Lease negotiations and rental resets
- Life estate administration
- Partial and fractional interest valuations, including debt and equity, remainderman and other property interests
- Post-acquisition disputes
- Transportation and utility corridor issues
