Shelly Irvine

Shelly Irvine is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Dispute Advisory Services practice within the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment. Ms. Irvine is focused on clients who require intellectual property expertise in the context of a dispute, as well as solving strategic issues related to their intellectual assets. Her experience spans many industries, including telecommunications, life sciences, semiconductor, clean energy, cloud computing and manufacturing. She advises clients and counsel globally, including those based in Asia, the UK and Europe, on complex issues related to damages quantification, expert testimony, valuation and licensing of intellectual property.

Ms. Irvine has more than 25 years of experience assessing damages in patent, copyright and trademark infringement disputes and trade secrets misappropriation matters. She has performed market and competitive studies, financial analyses and asset valuations that support lost profits and royalty rate determinations. Her work frequently involves evaluating the contribution of patented processes or methods to end products, identifying and assessing comparability of license agreements and applying damages frameworks consistent with evolving damages case law. Ms. Irvine’s practical hands-on experience working alongside clients to navigate critical IP issues provides a broad base of knowledge, lending credibility to her dispute advisory work.

Before joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Irvine built her career advising technology-driven organizations on intellectual property strategy and valuation. She holds a B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. from the Walter Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an active member of the Licensing Executive Society’s IoT Committee, Intellectual Property Owner’s Standards Committee and ChIPs, and has served on several non-profit boards.

Ms. Irvine is a recognized thought leader in intellectual property damages and valuation. She has been featured as a speaker for the International Bar Association, Licensing Executives Society and the California CPA Society, and lectures at UC Berkeley, Stanford and UC Hastings College of Law. She has also served as faculty for the UCL/Taylor Wessing Conference on Standards, FRAND, NPEs and Injunctions, participating in panels alongside leading judges and academics in Washington, D.C., London and Tokyo. Her contributions to the field were acknowledged in IAM Patent 1000 for her deep industry insight and mastery of patent damages case law.