Dr. Adam Werner is an expert witness and has more than twenty-five years’ experience working extensively in litigation consulting, concentrating primarily on security class actions, mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, shareholder derivative cases, and valuation cases. He has provided expert opinions and testified in federal, state and bankruptcy courts within the United States.  He has also provided testimony in Australian and Canadian court cases, as well as domestic and international arbitrations.  Many of these opinions have focused on market efficiency, materiality, loss causation and the estimation of damages in security class actions.

Prior to being a managing director at Peregrine, Dr. Werner was a lecturer in economics at the Orfalea College of Business at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he taught International Finance and Macroeconomics to undergraduates, and Managerial Economics to graduate students in addition to his work as a testifying expert.  He has lectured frequently on the topics of securities litigation and capital cost estimation.  Prior to joining Peregrine, Dr. Werner worked in the securities practice of several of the largest litigation consulting firms in the United States including Cornerstone Research and NERA.

Dr. Werner received his Doctorate in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he was a University Scholar. While at Kellogg, he taught MBA students Corporate Finance as well as Futures and Options. Before attending Kellogg, Dr. Werner worked as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland after having received a Bachelor of Arts in economics with honors from Oberlin College.