Charles W. Ranson, Jr., Wealth Management Expert Witness Activity

Expert Witness services at trial, arbitration and/or mediation.  Focus on wealth management issues, fiduciary and trustee duties and obligations.

Also evaluate and consult pre-trial/hearing.

Wealth Management Expertise

Private banking	Investment management
Broker-dealer services	Credit products
Alternative investments	Trust administration
Estate administration	Family office services

Representing

National and regional banks	Registered investment advisors
Trust companies	Ultra-high net worth investors
Entrepreneurs	Family offices
Multi-family offices

 

Chuck brings 28+ years of real world experience in financial services.

• 2006 – founding chair of Tiger 21 in Florida
• 2004 – founder and president, Integritas Advisors, Palm Beach
• 2003 – senior vice president, Atlantic Trust Company, Palm Beach
• 2001 – managing director, U.S. Trust Company of Florida, Palm Beach
• 1991 – vice president, managing director and president, Florida private                           bank of J.P. Morgan Chase, Palm Beach
• 1990 – trust banker, Bank of America, Fort Lauderdale
• 1983 – registered representative, Legg Mason, Washington D.C.

Chuck is an active member of the Institute for Private Investors and participates in many regional and local South Florida investor groups and forums.

The relationship between financial service providers and their clients is increasingly complex.  The onus of fiduciary duty weighs ever more heavily on this relationship and governs every aspect of the financial service providers’ actions.  Passage of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 only increases the depth, breadth, complexity and reach of the fiduciary obligation.

Financial service providers increasingly employ third-party product providers to help their investor clients achieve stated goals.  Thus the obligation of the financial service provider to conduct appropriate and through due diligence on investment products and vehicles introduced by third-party providers must grow to keep pace with the proliferation of new and increasingly sophisticated/complex products.

In addition, ultra-high net worth clients understandably expect appropriate suitability testing and performance monitoring, only adding to the burden of the financial service provider.  Such clients also expect a suite of advisory services well beyond traditional asset management that includes credit, risk management, investment banking, real estate, art, wine, collectibles and concierge emoluments.

As such, the wealth management business today is fraught with litigation risk.

 

Chuck Ranson brings real world experience and expertise to the inevitable disputes that arise from the complex relationships that bind, often frustrate and sometimes divide financial service providers and their clients.  This hands-on, feet-on-the-ground expertise is invaluable in assisting the trier of facts in a wealth management/fiduciary relationship gone awry.  Chuck’s deep reservoir of solving unusual client requests allows him to sort out substantive issues in dispute and provide authoritative “this is how it’s done” expert opinion and testimony.

 

In short, whether as an author of an expert report, a pre-trial/hearing deponent or an expert witness, Chuck’s many years of solving complex problems for ultra-wealthy clients can be the difference maker.