Biography
Dr. Ozgur B. Kan is a Vice President at CRA in New York.
Dr. Ozgur Kan is a qualified arbitrator and testifying and consulting expert providing expert services in disputes in state and federal courts and domestic and international arbitrations. He works with clients in both dispute & litigation and advisory & consulting matters related to liability management, credit due diligence and credit underwriting, credit analysis and assessments, bond ratings analysis, debt capital restructuring, credit modeling, loan and deal review, work-outs and restructurings, regulatory preparedness, risk compliance and investigations, economic and regulatory capital, advanced modeling of credit approaches and interest rates, securitization of esoteric claims.
In investment matters, Dr. Kan performs analysis and review of asset allocation models and algorithmic investment approaches for investment funds and alternative investment vehicles with emphasis on asset allocation, portfolio construction and rebalancing, algorithmic investing, portfolio risk management and risk and return attribution, and hedging. He also performs assessment of quantum of damages and valuation of hard-to-value credit instruments, structured deals, workout assessments, esoteric and illiquid transactions and securities for reporting and transactional purposes and in dispute and litigation matters.
He has been retained in and provided expert reports and oral testimony or expert advice in several state and federal court cases as well as domestic and international arbitration cases before the FINRA, ICSID, ICC, JAMS and PCA. He is also a qualified arbitrator appointed as arbitrator in various disputes.
Prior to joining CRA, Ozgur Kan was a Managing Director in the Financial Services and Securities Practices of another global consulting firm, where he also led the Credit Analytics Practice. Before that, Dr. Kan was the Head of the Credit Methodology function in GE-Capital-Americas and a Director in Moody’s and taught full-time as an academic.
He holds a PhD in Finance from Old Dominion University, Norfolk< VA and LLM – Master of Laws from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK in addition to Chartered Financial Analyst-CFA and Financial Risk Manager-FRM qualifications and held FINRA Series 50-Municipal Advisor Representative (elapsed) designation.