Roberto G. Garcia

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Financial Analyst 

Roberto G. Garcia, CFA, CFE, received his Masters in Economics from the University of Missouri in 1982 and was awarded his Chartered Financial Analyst charter in 1989. In 2004, Mr. Garcia earned the Certified Fraud Examiner certificate. Mr. Garcia has experience as a financial analyst, portfolio manager, securities broker, bond trader, credit analyst, debt manager, and litigation analyst. As a financial institution liquidity manager, Mr. Garcia was responsible for up to $200 million of short term investments, up to $700 million of outstanding debt, and provided assistance to the RTC and FSLIC by valuing, analyzing, or directly selling over $1 billion of assets.

Mr. Garcia has constructed cash flow models for each loan of a $400 million commercial real estate loan portfolio to ensure the accurate application of internal rate of return valuation measures, developed a bank credit scoring system to protect a $100 million portfolio of Fed Funds investments, and created FHLMC securities from mortgage loans. Mr. Garcia has also analyzed the secondary market trading operations and determined the ongoing profitability of a mortgage banking subsidiary with over $6 billion in loan servicing. He also priced branch purchases totaling over $650 million in deposits, evaluated corporate acquisitions, made asset/liability strategy recommendations, and prepared bid packages for the sale of a $2 billion savings association.

While at Finkelstein Thompson LLP, Mr. Garcia has valued the stock of companies involved in merger negotiations, computed damages, analyzed trading strategies, constructed trial exhibits, applied hedge accounting techniques, and reviewed portfolio compositions in cases involving stocks, options, swaps, caps, futures (equity, commodity, and fixed income), conventional mortgage-backed securities, MBS derivatives, loan servicing rights, limited partnership units, fixed income instruments, mutual funds, and synthetic securities. He has developed systematic damage computation techniques for large class action lawsuits including a case that involved more than 600 different limited partnerships and over $3 billion in potential losses. Mr. Garcia works in the Washington, D.C. office.