Jan Jindra

Dr. Jindra is a financial economist specializing in complex securities enforcement matters and securities litigation.

Dr. Jindra is a former Assistant Director at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and professor of finance. He has 20 years of experience providing economic analyses, litigation support, and expert testimony in both civil and criminal proceedings. His expert testimony and consulting work have focused on complex economic and financial issues that arise in the context of SEC regulatory investigations, white collar civil and criminal prosecutions, and securities litigation. His clients have included private counsel and staff attorneys at the SEC, the US Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission.

Drawing on his consulting, regulatory, teaching, and academic research experience, Dr. Jindra has provided expert analyses on a wide range of economics and finance topics, including insider trading, valuation of private firms, reasonableness of pro-forma forecasts of startup firms, the impact of fraudulent valuation of complex securities on the value and performance of a hedge fund. He has also consulted and directed investigation in matters involving insider trading, materiality, the impact of information on securities prices, investor harm, investment advisor fraud, market manipulation, and initial public offering (IPO) allocations. Dr. Jindra served as a testifying expert on behalf of the SEC and DOJ.

Dr. Jindra has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles finance academic journals, including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His research focuses on valuation and implications of various corporate decisions on securities prices.