Jack Schwager is a Managing Director in the FTI Consulting Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice and is based in Chicago. Mr. Schwager has over a decade of professional experience in forensic accounting and investigations, litigation consulting, and public accounting. He specializes in financial and accounting-based disputes, forensic accounting and investigation, and measurement of economic damages and business valuation in general commercial litigation. Mr. Schwager is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Illinois, is Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois CPA Society, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Schwager was a public accountant with Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen. Mr. Schwager has led forensic and litigation engagements involving GAAP and GAAS standards; accountant liability and auditor malpractice; accounting-based fraud; investigations of accounting and SEC reporting irregularities; accounting restatements of public registrants; quantifying damages in general commercial litigation; post-acquisition disputes regarding post-closing adjustments and claims for indemnification; misappropriation of assets; fraudulent transfers as defined by the 11 U.S.C. 548; fraudulent conveyances under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act; preferential transfers as defined by 11 U.S.C. 547; alter ego claims; corporate veil piercing and identity of interest claims; causes of business failure or distress; and, solvency disputes. Mr. Schwager has extensive experience performing industry and market analyses. He has calculated compensatory damages and consequential damages in commercial disputes based on out-of-pocket losses, benefit of the bargain, lost profits, diminution and destruction of business value, and costs incurred.