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J.S. Held expert teams across six continents were honored in 2024 across multiple disciplines.
JERICHO, N.Y., December 17, 2024 -- Global consulting firm J.S. Held, proudly celebrating 50 transformative years, commemorates numerous industry expert recognitions. Across J.S. Held, a curated collection of technical, scientific, and financial experts, and entrepreneurs with an unrivaled understanding of both tangible and intangible assets, have been recognized by leading industry publications for expertise in 29 categories.
Click on an award category below to learn more about our recognition and respective areas of expertise.
Across J.S. Held, more than 1,500 professionals serve organizations across six continents, including 81% of the Global 200 Law Firms, 70% of the Forbes Top 20 Insurance Companies (85% of the NAIC Top 50 Property & Casualty Insurers), and 65% of the Fortune 100 Companies.
J.S. Held's expertise is built upon five decades of experience in the most rigorous venues – state, federal, and international courts – and spans more than 150 different industry segments. The depth and breadth of our work in the insurance market provides a strong foundation in risk assessment, data analysis, global awareness, regulatory compliance, technological adaptability, and risk mitigation. Collectively, these skills better equip the firm’s experts to assess business risk across diverse geographies, geopolitical landscapes, compliance frameworks, and digital advancements. "In a world where uncertainty is the only constant, there is a need for something solid you can hold onto," observes J.S. Held Chief Executive Officer Jonathon Held. "Our name is our promise," he adds. "Our role as a trusted advisor is emblematic of this promise, even in the face of the most daunting risks, clients have the expertise and guidance to act with confidence."
The expert recognition by notable organizations such as Chambers and Partners, Leader’s League, Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal), and others serves as a further testament to J.S. Held's agile, collaborative, creative, and client-centric team providing solution-forward advisory and consulting to clients across the globe, no matter the scope or complexity of a project. It reflects the trusted advisor role we have earned over the last 50 years.
President and Chief Operating Officer at J.S. Held, Lee Spirer, commented, " These recognitions presented by leading outlets reflect input by clients and colleagues across multiple industries, underscoring our commitment to delivering expertise and innovative solutions in the complex world. It reflects not just the individual excellence of our experts, but our collective dedication to transforming the industries in which we work through precise analysis, reliable insights, and unwavering integrity."
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Our experts are recognized by Lexology Index for expertise in arbitration through nominations from peers and clients, arbitrators, tribunal members, chairs, and counsel. These awards reflect industry recognition of our experts as leaders in complex dispute resolution internationally.
We support clients in the resolution of challenging issues that can arise in engineering and construction projects, through all forms of dispute resolution. We have an unwavering commitment to delivering the news in clear, defensible analysis and testimony addressing the issues at hand.
>> Learn more about our arbitration expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Chambers & Partners for their proficiency advising clients seeking enforcement of high-value litigation and arbitration awards against individuals, corporations, and sovereigns.
Our investigative experts deliver actionable intelligence to support global recoveries in large-scale litigation and arbitration claims, judgements, and awards on behalf of corporations, banks, law firms, hedge funds, and litigation funders. We target high-value assets and those which may cause disruption, and work with counsel both pre-litigation and post-judgment and award to help assess and recover assets.
>> Learn more about our asset tracing and recovery expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Chambers & Partners for excellence in Business Intelligence & Investigations. This recognition highlights our experts as industry leaders, helping law firms and organizations to collect evidence and conduct investigations by utilizing open-source information and specialist human intelligence gathering.
Our global investigations team provides companies, legal counsel, financial institutions, government agencies, and high-profile individuals with the information required to make well-informed business and legal decisions. Our team is retained to advise in multijurisdictional regulatory inquiries and investigations, compliance issues, business transactions, and legal proceedings.
>> Learn more about our investigations expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Lexology Index as recommended Commercial Litigation Expert Witnesses, singled out by peers and clients for their outstanding ability in contentious commercial investigations and legal proceedings.
Our experts are retained in cases involving breach of contract, business interruption, construction defect, partnership disputes, intellectual property disputes, and other general business litigation. We evaluate commercial damages for clients from all sectors and geographies to deliver analyses and expert services in all forms of investigations and legal proceedings.
>> Learn more about our commercial litigation expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Lexology Index as foremost industry leaders in asset recovery, identified by peers and clients for their market-leading expertise tracing and recovering lost, misappropriated, or stolen assets in complex, multijurisdictional engagements.
Our investigative experts deliver actionable intelligence to support global asset recoveries in large-scale litigation and arbitration claims, judgements, and awards on behalf of corporations, banks, law firms, hedge funds, and litigation funders. We target high-value assets and those which may cause disruption, and work with counsel both pre-litigation and post-judgment and award to help assess and recover assets.
>> Learn more about our asset recovery expertise.
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Lexology Index recognizes J.S. Held experts as eminent construction quantum, delay, and technical leaders in the industry for their unparalleled expertise in quantifying costs and damages.
J.S. Held construction claims experts support construction project stakeholders by assisting in risk identification and assessment and the avoidance and resolution of project-related disputes. We deliver objective and independent analyses of complex construction matters based on years of technical field experience and industry knowledge.
>> Learn more about our construction quantum expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Lexology Index as the foremost industry leaders in digital forensic investigations and analyses, highlighted by their peers and clients for expertise in matters spanning eDiscovery, computer forensics, and data recovery and analysis, among other disciplines.
Our digital & data experts advise executives, investors, legal counsel, risk managers, and insurance professionals on risk, resiliency, digital transformation, information governance, compliance, asset protection & valuation, data analysis & discovery, cyber breaches, investigations, and disputes.
>> Learn more about our digital and data consulting expertise.
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Our experts are recognized as industry leaders by Lexology Index for exceptional expertise handling damage assessments, pecuniary remedies, and asset valuations, and are noted by peers and clients for their strong testifying skills and detailed approach.
We combine financial expertise with industry and market knowledge to quantify economic impact and determine the value of tangible and intangible assets. Our economic damages experts evaluate, quantify, and testify in matters involving breach of contract, business interruption/lost profits, commercial litigation, family law disputes, fraud, insurance claims & subrogation, intellectual property, labor/employment disputes, personal injury, and wrongful death/medical malpractice.
>> Learn more about our economic damages and valuations expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized as leading forensic accountants by Lexology Index, highlighted by peers and clients for their vast accounting expertise in complex investigations, litigation, and financial disputes internationally.
Our forensic accountants deliver the truth behind the numbers and provide expert support in financial investigations, valuation, and risk advisory. We advise in accounting & financial disputes, bankruptcy & insolvency, business interruption & extra expense, economic damages, financial crime & fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, and tangible & intangible asset valuation, among other areas.
>> Learn more about our forensic accounting expertise.
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Lexology Index recognizes J.S. Held experts as construction industry leaders, gaining recognition from peers, clients, and colleagues for their unparalleled work on disputes and claims arising from quantum and delay issues on major projects.
We provide construction consulting expertise on projects of all types and sizes, as well as claims and disputes of various complexities. As experts in construction dispute resolution, we leverage our understanding of the construction industry to avoid, and when necessary, identify, assess, and resolve construction claims and disputes that may arise. We utilize extensive construction experience to provide quantum and delay, defect, standard of care, estimating, and surety consulting services to the insurance and legal industries.
>> Learn more about our construction consulting expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Chambers & Partners for excellence in Political Risk consulting, delivering specialized expertise to clients to manage the impact of geopolitical, macroeconomic, and global social factors. This award reflects our recognition by peers and clients as industry leaders in stakeholder exposure analysis, stress testing, scenario planning exercises, political exposure analysis related to transactions and investments, and ongoing monitoring of emerging risks and opportunities.
Our experts provide objective and actionable analysis for companies facing political risk exposure. We monitor challenging sectors and countries for our clients, often in emerging and frontier regions, delivering critical information on changing political dynamics in some of the world’s most complex markets.
>> Learn more about our political risk expertise.
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Lexology Index recognizes J.S. Held experts as industry leaders in data privacy and protection, data security, and information technology. Our experts are esteemed by peers and clients for their expertise in high-level data analysis and testimony in disputes, supporting lawyers and corporate clients in managing data projects, investigations, and complex data appraisals.
Our data privacy and information governance experts work with clients to ensure the safe management, utilization, and disposal of information throughout their global ecosystem. We combine technical expertise and investigative experience to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization’s data to minimize corporate risk, safeguard private information, and minimize exposure from non-compliance.
>> Learn more about our information governance and data privacy expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by ROI-NJ as leaders in environmental business for exemplary work across New Jersey in environmental projects involving the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Industrial Site Recovery Act, environmental remediation, due diligence reviews, brownfields, underground storage tanks, land-use issues, redevelopment, regulatory compliance, and environmental consulting.
Our team is engaged by corporations, utilities, public and private owners, developers, government organizations, insurance professionals, construction professionals, and the legal community to consult on matters involving the environment, human health and safety, and regulatory compliance. Our EHS consultants provide specialized expertise in environmental damage and remediation, environmental due diligence, energy transition, toxicology and epidemiology, industrial hygiene, product stewardship and product liability, and human health and safety.
>> Learn more about our environmental, health, and safety expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Lexology Index as experts in complex investigations, with peers and clients highlighting prominent industry leaders for their expertise in international engagements spanning asset tracing, corporate investigations, and eDiscovery.
Our global investigations team provides companies, legal counsel, financial institutions, government agencies, and high-profile individuals with the information required to make well-informed business and legal decisions. We are retained to advise in multijurisdictional regulatory inquiries and investigations, compliance issues, business transactions, and legal proceedings.
>> Learn more about our investigations expertise.
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Lexology Index has identified J.S. Held forensic accountants as industry leaders in complex investigations, highlighting recognition from our peers and clients as forensic experts in white-collar crime investigations and financial matters.
Our forensic accountants deliver the truth behind the numbers and provide expert support in financial investigations, valuation, and risk advisory. We advise in accounting & financial disputes, bankruptcy & insolvency, business interruption & extra expense, economic damages, financial crime & fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, and tangible & intangible asset valuation, among other areas.
>> Learn more about our forensic accounting expertise.
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Our digital and data experts are recognized by Lexology Index as experts in complex digital investigations, highlighting our position as industry leaders helping clients to preserve and uncover evidence of user activity left behind on computers and digital devices.
We are retained to conduct forensic investigations of digital assets, systematically uncovering the trail of activity left behind by a person of interest. We are involved in all aspects of digital forensic investigations from initial scoping and identification of data sources through system evaluation, data preservation, causation analysis, remediation, recovery, and litigation.
>> Learn more about our digital forensics expertise.
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Our intellectual property experts are recognized by Lexology Index and IAM, as foremost patent, trademark, copyright, and strategy leaders in the IP insudtry, with expertise in both contentious and transactional matters.
Our intellectual property services address economic damage calculations and testimony; business licensing strategy and contract interpretation; patent-focused business intelligence; portfolio development strategy; litigation support; trade secret reasonable measures; asset and business valuation; strategy and risk management consulting; merger and acquisition advisory; debt and equity private placement; and IP brokerage.
>> Learn more about our intellectual property expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Leaders League as highly recommended experts in construction and engineering litigation, highlighting our expertise helping clients to navigate complex construction litigation issues and disputes.
We support clients in the resolution of challenging issues that can arise in engineering and construction projects, through all forms of dispute resolution. We have an unwavering commitment to delivering the news in clear, defensible analysis and testimony addressing the issues at hand.
>> Learn more about our construction litigation expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Lexology Index as leading industry practitioners for their expertise in high-profile regulatory, finance, and contentious matters in the transportation sector.
We provide specialized construction, scientific, technical, financial, and strategic expertise to the transportation industry spanning from the retooling of existing infrastructure to new development. Our highly trained and experienced team of engineers, general contractors, accident reconstruction experts, construction management professionals, estimators, code experts, schedulers, and cost analysts are engaged in matters involving many of the largest transportation infrastructures around the world.
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J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.
More than 1,500 professionals serve organizations across six continents, including, 81% of the Global 200 Law Firms, 70% of the Forbes Top 20 Insurance Companies (85% of the NAIC top 50 Property & Casualty Insurers), and 65% of the Fortune 100 Companies.
J.S. Held, its affiliates and subsidiaries are not certified public accounting firm(s) and do not provide audit, attest, or any other public accounting services. J.S. Held, its affiliates and subsidiaries are not law firms and do not provide legal advice. Securities offered through PM Securities, LLC, d/b/a Phoenix IB, a part of J.S. Held, member FINRA/ SIPC or Ocean Tomo Investment Group, LLC, a part of J.S. Held, member FINRA/ SIPC. All rights reserved.