Internationally Recognized Appraisal Expert Witness Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS and John Barton, ASA prevail at international arbitration before the American Arbitration Association for Blue Equity LLC., a Louisville-based private-equity firm, and its Jamaica-based subsidiary BE TAG Holdings Limited, with appraisal expert-witness testimony and litigation support services in connection with its sale of Shell Oil Jamaica to Rubis Caribbean Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of French-based Rubis, an international company specialized in the storage, distribution and sale of petroleum, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), food and chemical products.
About Appraisal Expert Witness Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS
Mr. Siegler is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) and was honored to serve as the founding International Chairman of Appraisal Review and Management (ARM) for the American Society of Appraisers from 2002 to 2011. The ASA is the oldest and largest multidisciplinary appraisal and valuation organization in the world, with approximately 5,000 members in 137 countries worldwide. Mr. Siegler co-authored and directed the implementation of the ASA’s Appraisal Review and Management Principles of Valuations series of courses and best practices—the cornerstone of Appraisal Expert Witness Testimony—that are now taught to professional valuers, government officials, legal experts, and many others throughout the world.
Additionally, Steven holds international valuation accreditation as a Member of the College of Fellows of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). RICS, headquartered in London, is the leading professional body of its kind in the world, serving over 100,000 qualified professionals across commercial and residential development, construction and project management, brokerage, planning, finance, and valuation. Mr. Siegler is the only RICS-accredited expert witness in the Western Hemisphere and one of only a handful worldwide to hold the highly coveted RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) certifications.
Mr. Siegler holds TS Clearance with the U.S. Government and is uniquely qualified to practice in national security-related valuation and other specialized matters before U.S. Government agencies.
When, as part of Dodd-Frank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), acting for and on behalf of the U.S. Federal Reserve and all inter-agency regulators, sought the appraisal expertise to develop, implement, and monitor the new National Appraisal Ordering and Appraisal Review Protocols for the United States and all U.S. territories, it came to Mr. Siegler.
Steven specializes in and is most active in providing appraisal expert witness testimony and litigation support services to attorneys and law firms worldwide. He is a Super Appraisers® Elite-Rated professional, which is a peer-review distinction reserved for the top 5% of internationally accredited trial and litigation valuers and appraisal luminaries in their respective practice areas. He has served as an appraisal expert witness in U.S. state and federal courts, international tribunals, and in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) arbitration and mediation. He has personally prevailed in billions of dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex—important—high-profile—”Bet the Company” and valuable valuation-related litigation.
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