Shane Goodwin › Valuation & fairness-opinion expert
Expert witness · Litigation support
Testimony and consulting on what things are worth and how the market said so: valuation methodology, fairness-opinion practice, event studies, and damages frameworks in transaction and fiduciary litigation.
Discuss an engagementValuationBusiness and transaction valuation: DCF, comparables, precedent transactions — and where each breaks.
FairnessFairness-opinion scope, methodology, and the banker's work product behind it.
Market evidenceEvent studies and market-reaction analysis — the methodology behind the Initiative's published event-study work, with replication kits.
DamagesDamages frameworks in fiduciary-duty and deal litigation, including quasi-appraisal and rescissory measures.
Decades of experience executing M&A, activism defense, and financing at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Securities — opinions grounded in how these decisions are actually made.
Professor of Practice in Finance (SMU Cox) and Adjunct Professor of Law (SMU Dedman); Ph.D. and LL.M. The finance and the law in one witness.
Nearly 25 years of investment-banking valuation judgment at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Securities, now paired with published, replicable event-study methodology at SMU CGI.
Opinions are built the way the SMU Corporate Governance Initiative builds its public datasets: primary sources, documented methodology, and analysis a court — or an opposing expert — can trace to its inputs. See the Reincorporation Index and the Texas Business Court Codex.