Mr. Gkatzimas specializes in complex financial markets disputes related to trading, valuing, and investing in securities and portfolios across asset classes – including digital assets.

He is an expert on derivative securities, structured finance, credit products, alternative investments, and digital assets, including their unique regulatory considerations, market structure, and transaction and valuation practices. Mr. Gkatzimas has significant experience with benchmark-related matters, and he actively consulted on financial industry considerations related to the fallback framework of interbank-offered rates (IBORs). His digital asset experience includes disputes about cryptocurrency exchanges and the trading of crypto coins, tokens, and their derivatives.

Clients engage Mr. Gkatzimas in a wide range of finance-related issues, including disputes involving venture capital and private equity investments, valuation of illiquid securities, credit instruments, derivatives, mergers and acquisitions, and securities class actions. He has led experts and consulting teams through all stages of regulatory investigations, litigations, arbitrations, and mediations.

In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Gkatzimas has been a member of the professional faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business since 2013. Mr. Gkatzimas is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the CFA Society – San Francisco.

Practices
Education

Stanford University
MSc in Financial Mathematics

Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley
Master of Financial Engineering

St. John’s University
MBA in International Finance

Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Testimony

Declaration filed February 16, 2024; Deposition March 7, 2024; Expert Testimony at US Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware Hearing March 25, 2024

In re: FTX Trading, Ltd., et al., Debtors | Chapter 11, Case No. 22-11068 (JTD)

Declaration filed with the Delaware Court of Chancery January 5, 2024

Confidential filing, Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Group of Investors, Defendants

Reports filed June 30, 2023, and August 2, 2023; Deposition September 13 and September 14, 2023; Expert Testimony at Delaware Court of Chancery Trial November 15, 2023

Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund III, L.P. and Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund III Affiliates, L.P., Petitioners, v. FairXchange, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as successor in liability to FairXchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Respondent | Case No. C.A. No. 2022-0344-JTL

Deposition October 21, 2022; Expert Testimony at Jury Trial January 26 and January 30, 2023

James Brewer, M.D, Ph.D., v. Impact Biomedicines | Case No. 37-2019-00067876-CU-COCTL