Valuation and Litigation Appraisal Services

Appraisal Expert Witness | Real Estate Appraisal | Business Valuation | Appraisal Review | Forensic Appraisal | Retrospective Appraisal | Rebuttal Appraisal | Appraisal Umpire | Personal Property Appraisal | Appraisal Management | Appraisal Fairness Opinions

Equity Development Systems Ltd (EDS) Valuation & Litigation Appraisal Services Group values assets across industries and asset classes worldwide.  We specialize in providing Appraisal Expert-Witness and litigation-support services to attorneys and law firms throughout the world, and we have prevailed in Billions-of-Dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex—important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Our discipline-specific and multidisciplinary valuers are internationally recognized and accredited ASA/RICS/MAI & USPAP/IVS (Red Book) appraisal instructors—all well-published Super Appraisers^® Elite-Rated international valuation luminaries.

EDS Executive Managing Director Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS holds the only RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications in the U.S. and all of The Americas—one of only a handful of such Certifications in the world.

Distressed Asset Management and Disposition Services

Assignment For The Benefit Of Creditors | Special Servicing | Special Situations | Turnarounds | Restructurings | Investment Recovery | Asset Recovery

Equity Development Systems Ltd represents many of the world’s leading multinational corporations in the redeployment and/or disposition of their surplus assets, real and moveable (Investment Recovery), and many of the world’s leading financial institutions, attorneys and law firms, creditors, investors, and myriad other stakeholders in the recovery, disposition, and conversion of their distressed assets, real and moveable, to cash (Asset Recovery).

Our award-winning services have earned us the distinction of being the only Distressed Asset Management and Disposition Services company in the country that the United States Environmental Protection Agency allows to conduct such services on active Superfund Sites.  We are pleased to serve as Keepers for the U.S. Marshals Service for federal court seizures of assets under admiralty jurisdiction.

From the disposition of an active National Priorities List Superfund Site—to a Decommissioned Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier—to the Pencils-on-the-Desk, we handle it all, and we have generated and returned Billions of Dollars to our clients’ treasuries.