EDS’s Valuation and Litigation Appraiser Services Group values assets across industries and asset classes worldwide. Our discipline-specific and multidisciplinary valuers are internationally recognized and accredited ASA/RICS/MAI & USPAP/IVS (Red Book) appraisal instructors—all Super Appraisers^® Elite-Rated international valuation luminaries.

We specialize in valuing complex and Hard-to-Value assets and in providing appraisal expert-witness testimony and litigation-support services to attorneys and law firms throughout the world, and we have prevailed in billions of dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex—important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

EDS holds the only RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications
in the Western Hemisphere—one of only a handful of such Certifications in the world.

EDS is Super Appraisers® Elite-Rated, which is a peer-review distinction reserved for the top 5% of internationally accredited trial and litigation valuers and appraisal luminaries in his or her practice area.

EDS has prevailed in billions of dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex, important, high-profile, and valuable valuation litigation.

EDS Valuation and Litigation Appraiser Services are provided by our Super Appraisers® Elite-Rated discipline-specific and multidisciplinary senior appraisers holding international accreditation with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and/or The Appraisal Institute (AI) and/or The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

The ASA is the oldest and largest multidisciplinary appraisal and valuation organization in the world, with approximately 5,000 members in 137 countries worldwide. The Appraisal Institute is a global association of real estate appraisers, with nearly 23,000 valuation professionals in nearly 60 countries worldwide. RICS, with its headquarters in London, is the leading organization of its kind in the world, serving more than 100,000 qualified professionals in commercial and residential development, construction and project management, brokerage, planning, finance, and valuation.

Our experts include Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and International Valuation Standards (IVS) and RICS ‘Red Book’ instructors, former state and federal appraisal regulatory compliance officers, and Value Adjustment Board (VAB) magistrates.

Our Valuation and Litigation Appraiser Services Group is headed by Executive Managing Director Steven N. Siegler, ASA, FRICS. Mr. Siegler is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) and was honored to serve as the founding International Chairman of Appraisal Review and Management (ARM) for the American Society of Appraisers from 2002 to 2011. Mr. Siegler co-authored and directed the development and implementation of the ASA’s Appraisal Review and Management Principles of Valuations series of courses and best practices, which are now taught to professional valuers, government officials, legal experts, and many others worldwide.

When, as part of Dodd-Frank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), acting for and on behalf of the U.S. Federal Reserve and all inter-agency regulators, sought the appraisal expertise to develop, implement, and monitor the new National Appraisal Ordering and Appraisal Review Protocols for the United States and all U.S. territories, it came to Mr. Siegler.

Mr. Siegler holds international valuation accreditation as a Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). He is the only RICS-accredited expert witness in the United States and all of the Americas—one of only a handful of such expert witnesses in the world holding the much-coveted RICS Expert Witness Accreditation Service (EWAS) and Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Certifications.

Mr. Siegler holds TS Clearance with the U.S. Government, and he is uniquely qualified to practice before U.S. Government agencies in national security-related valuation and other special matters.

Steven is a Super Appraisers® Elite-Rated professional, which is a peer-review distinction reserved for the top 5% of internationally accredited trial and litigation valuers and appraisal luminaries in their respective practice areas. He has served as an appraisal expert witness in U.S. state and federal courts, as well as at international tribunals, and in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) arbitration and mediation. He has personally prevailed in billions of dollars at issue in some of the world’s most complex—important—high-profile—and valuable valuation-related litigation.

EDS’s unparalleled level of expertise is recognized and appreciated in boardrooms and courtrooms throughout the world. How may we be of service to you?

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