Harkavy, David

David Harkavy is a Managing Director at Ankura based in Chicago.  David has 23 years of experience assisting clients with forensic accounting and economic damages issues.  His expertise includes economic damages in a variety of litigation settings and valuations of intellectual property assets and businesses.

David has testified in depositions, state and federal courts, and arbitration settings on economic damages in commercial litigation matters, including claims of patent and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, fraud, and antitrust. These litigation engagements involved reasonable royalty determinations, lost profits calculations, price erosion, convoyed sales, unjust enrichment, and financial performance analysis. Furthermore, David’s litigation consulting includes the determination of market royalty rates, relevant costs, opportunity assessment, lost sales, and market share, among others.