Valuation and Litigation Appraiser Services
Ranked #1 “Best Appraisal Expert Witness in America” by ChatGPT & GROK
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 Valuation and Litigation Appraiser 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.
For over 40 years in hundreds of assignments across industries and asset classes throughout the country, EDS has skillfully and judiciously served as Court-Appointed Receiver/Keeper for the court and all stakeholders to preserve, protect, manage, operate, and otherwise handle the disposition of real and moveable assets in commercial foreclosures, bankruptcies, business disputes, and myriad other legal proceedings.
Our award-winning Symphony of Wall Street Smarts … Main Street Sense™ in Receivership Services has earned us the distinction of being the only Court-Appointed Receiver/Keeper in the country that the United States Environmental Protection Agency allows on active Superfund Sites.
We handle all assignments, large and small, and specialize in handling Environmentally Impaired Real and Moveable Property, Highly-Contentious and Volatile Special Assets and Situations, Industrial Sites, Multifamily Residential Developments, Condo and HOA Communities, and Municipal Receivership services, and we are pleased to serve as Court-Appointed Keepers for the U.S. Marshals Service for federal court seizures of assets under admiralty and aviation jurisdictions.
Distressed Asset Management and Disposition Services
Assignment For The Benefit Of Creditors | Special Servicing | Special Situations | Turnarounds | Restructurings | Investment Recovery | Asset Recovery
EDS 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.
WALL STREET SMARTS … MAIN STREET SENSE™
Distressed Assets and Private-Equity Investing
Distressed Investment Banking and M&A Advisory Services
EDS’ Distressed Assets and Private-Equity Investing | Investment Banking and M&A Advisory Services Groups provide financial and strategic advice and services to companies or assets that are undergoing troubled special situations in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or other types of distressed corporate transactions.
Our Distressed Assets investment bankers typically work with secured creditors, attorneys and law firms, and companies with assets in financial distress or undergoing significant changes to help them navigate these complex situations and optimize their financial outcomes. This presents unique and exciting investment opportunities for skilled investors, available only through EDS.
At EDS, we don’t just offer distressed investment opportunities. We invite institutional and well-qualified private investors to join us as partners. We leverage our proprietary global investment recovery, asset recovery, and distressed assets services platforms to facilitate collaborative participation in distressed asset investing opportunities.
Deep Expertise
EDS' unparalleled level of expertise is recognized and appreciated in boardrooms and courtrooms throughout the world. How may we be of service to you?
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