Dr. Bremser has a Ph.D. in Finance and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has prior consulting experience with LECG and KPMG in a variety of financial and economic projects, and the application of financial, economic, and valuation techniques. These projects involved breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, energy, securities litigation, international trade, and intellectual property.
Dr. Bremser has worked on damage cases involving breach of contract in the electric industry, oil industry, and automotive parts industry, and breach of fiduciary duty involving trust management regarding life insurance and profit distributions to shareholders of related entities. He has provided consulting services related to the cost of service for oil pipelines companies. He has valued assets such as pipelines transporting refined products, and power plants.
He has conducted event study analyses of stock prices and financial statement analysis. For investment portfolios, Dr. Bremser has conducted analyses on portfolio turnover, commissions, out-of-pocket profits and losses, and benchmark damages. He has worked on international trade cases involving durum and hard red spring wheat, magnesium metal, and a Section 337 proceeding regarding home vacuum packing machines. Dr. Bremser has worked on projects involving intellectual property including determining the mechanical royalty rates for recorded music that is sold in the United States.
Dr. Bremser’s background includes the use of option pricing techniques, knowledge of accounting principles and accounting transactions, and general statistics and econometrics. Dr. Bremser has reviewed financial and accounting documents in a variety of different cases to assess the relevance of the information in the documents. He has worked on projects involving the determination of the cost of capital and discount rates. He has taught finance courses at Virginia Tech in Introductory Corporate Finance and Real Estate Finance.
Bremser AW. Valuation of a trade subsidy using option pricing theory. Journal of Legal Economics 2011 April; 17(2).
Bremser AW. Calculating a taxable damages award: A comparison of two calculation methods. Journal of Legal Economics 2010 April; 16(2).