Howard Rosen has been involved exclusively in business valuations, damages quantification, and corporate finance related matters since 1981. He has acted as an advisor to private and public companies, regulatory bodies, and all levels of government on a wide variety of industries. His work experience covers assignments across North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Howard has provided expert witness testimony in over 100 damages quantification and valuation matters in courts in Canada and the United States and also in International Arbitration hearings in North and South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Experience
Howard has acted as court appointed administrator, monitor and inspector and sat as a member of an Arbitral Tribunal and sole Arbitrator. He is the co-author of two texts on the quantification of economic damages and has lectured extensively to professional interest groups. Howard has acted as instructor at the NITA and FIAA Expert Witness Trial Practice Programs, the MIDS Program in Geneva, and as an MBA instructor at the Schulich School of Business in Toronto. Howard has been listed as one of the top valuation and damages experts in Canada by Lexpert, and Internationally by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top experts in International Commercial Arbitration.
Howard has also acted as advisor on transactions in a wide variety of businesses, for both public and private equity investors, conducting strategic due diligence, valuations and deal structuring for both buyers and sellers. Howard has advised independent committees of boards of directors on non-arms length transactions, and has also acted as the chair of independent committees of boards of directors for non-arms length transactions.
Howard currently sits on the board of directors and audit committees of two public companies (Agriculture and Software), and one mutual fund company and on the advisory committee of two institutional investors. Howard’s past board positions have included a Junior resource company (Gas and mining), as well as a specialty manufacturer.
Howard leads the global international arbitration practice for FTI Consulting.