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mmercer@b2bcfo.com
Mr. Mercer is one of over 100 partners of B2B CFO® nationwide
providing CFO services to growing companies and offering financial fraud
investigation, litigation support, forensic accounting, and expert witness
services to litigating attorneys on a nationwide basis. B2B CFOs have,
on average, over 25 years of high level finance, accounting and senior
level corporate executive experience.
Mr. Mercer leads the B2B CFO® Litigation Services Practice
which offers thousands of years of combined experience in virtually
every area of finance, accounting and business to litigating attorneys
in the areas of litigation support, financial fraud investigations,
forensic accountant services and expert witness services.
Mr. Mercer is a Certified Public Accountant and an Attorney with
over 25 years of experience in business management, financial planning,
information technology, and software development. He comes from a 'Big
4' accounting background and has accumulated a breadth of experience
leading and managing the fiscal, operational, and technological functions
of companies whose industries include real estate, software development,
e-commerce, law, tax, insurance, expert witnesses, public and forensic
accounting. His expertise includes finance and accounting, legal/contract
negotiations, e-business, e-commerce, strategic marketing, new product
development, organizational development, and IT integration project
development. Additionally, for over 20 years Mr. Mercer has taught accounting
theory, auditing, business law, and computer science to college students
and CPA candidates.
Mr. Mercer's experience includes forensic accounting services to attorneys
involved in business litigation, and served as Vice President of Financial
Fraud Investigations during the Savings & Loan meltdown in the 1990s.
He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Forensic Accountant, and is
Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) through the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
Specifically, Mr. Mercer has directed and coordinated financial and
computer fraud investigations involving white-collar crime and financial
institution losses that includes:
- Providing litigation services assisting in the preparation of
pleadings, responses, interrogatories, exhibits, depositions, and
direct and cross examinations.
- Analyzing complex real estate transactions where fraud or malfeasance
was suspected.
- Interfacing with local law enforcement and the FBI.
- Preparing investigative reports and criminal referrals for submission
to the FBI.
- Performing statistical analyses on automotive loan pools to
establish that the loan default rate was dramatically shorter for
loans accepted from specific suspicious automobile dealers compared
with the general population of automobile dealers in the loan pools
as a whole. This information pointed federal investigators to specific
loan officers and automobile dealerships, resulting in criminal
referrals.
- Successfully defending a company owner/partner against allegations
of mismanagement by his business partners resulting in the bankruptcy
of his franchised 50-store retail chain. Discovered evidence of
long-term embezzlement on the part of the suing partners thereby
securing a favorable countersuit settlement for the client.
- Searching for and locating hidden assets of former officers
and directors of Savings & Loan institutions.
- Providing litigation support to substantiate a $50 million deduction
of accelerated capitalized interest which had been denied by the
IRS. Efforts were successful in obtaining a settlement with the
IRS wherein $49 million out of the $50 million in previously denied
deductions were allowed.
- Providing litigation support attendant to 'expansive soils'
class action litigation by developing a database that quantified
critical information regarding 20,000 homes built in the Denver
Metropolitan Area. The database established a statistically significant
relationship between expansive soils and basement complaints and
went on to estimate the total potential exposure to the Company.
Company attorneys were then able to negotiate a favorable settlement
to the class action lawsuit brought by homeowners.
- Uncovering fraud and embezzlement by senior executives where
company revenues and client reserves which had been sequestered
for future services were misappropriated for personal use.
Mr. Mercer graduated with honors from the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA) with a bachelor's degree in economics and accounting
in 1978. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of the
Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California in 1981. He
has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant and Attorney since 1981
and comes from a 'Big 4' accounting background. Mr. Mercer is a partner
with B2B CFO® providing CFO services to growing companies
and offering financial fraud investigation, litigation support, forensic
accounting, and expert witness services to litigating attorneys on a
nationwide basis.
To Contact Mr. Mercer: Via Email:
mmercer@b2bcfo.com Via Telephone: (303) 621-5825
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