James J. Agar

James J. Agar is a Managing Director in the firm's Financial Advisory Services Group.  He is a member of the Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Services team and leads the firm's Post-M&A Dispute practice. With more than 30 years of experience, Jim specializes in accounting arbitration and neutral services, transaction party advisory, expert witness testimony, complex commercial litigation consulting, expert witness testimony, and contract compliance assessment (including royalties), among others.

Jim's extensive background includes a broad range of forensic, dispute, and controversy issues, including post-mergers and acquisitions working capital, earn-out, material adverse change, and representation and warranty disputes (including advisory services to buyers and sellers and" neutral" services to both parties); expert witness services and damages calculations in commercial disputes; contract compliance and royalty assessments; investigations; asset identification and recapture; accounting and audit malpractice allegation advisory; and asserted wrongful terminations damages quantifications.

Jim’s clients include large and boutique law firms and entities of various sizes from multiple industries including automotive manufacturing and distribution, alternative investments, pharmaceuticals, energy, commercial real estate, insurance, and consumer products.

Previously, Jim served as a Disputes and Controversies Director for the Northeast region of a Big 4 firm, where he also served as a National Co-Director for Post-M&A Dispute Services; altogether, he has more than 15 years of Big 4 experience. Earlier in his career, he was an Associate Director of Restructuring for the post-petition Enron Corporation, and he was a financial statement auditor for several years upon entering the profession.

Jim is a frequent speaker on topics such as post-mergers and acquisitions disputes, “Accounting for Lawyers,” and emerging issues in litigation services and economic crime.