Katie Grace, Ph.D., is a court certified expert in damages analysis, lost profits, disgorgement, reasonable royalties, business valuation, financial statement analysis, valuation methodologies, and antitrust damages. She has submitted over 35 expert reports, has been disposed multiple times, and has testified in three trials.
Dr. Grace has experience in business disputes and breach of contract damages, price fixing and collusion, econometrics, financial statement analysis, business valuation, public finance, and financial economics. She served as a professor at Wofford College and Furman University, where she taught business, accounting, and finance courses related to corporate finance, financial statement analysis, business valuation, investments, options, macro- and micro- economics.
Dr. Grace is an expert in the following areas:
- Financial analysis: acquisitions, public offerings, private placements of financial service companies and mid-sized commercial banks
- Valuation and Valuation Methodologies: discounted cash flow analysis (DCF), comparable company, precedent transaction analyses
- Anti-trust: market analysis, anti-competitive behavior
- Damages: breach of contract, collusion
- Class-action: class certification and damages estimates
Dr. Grace has published peer-reviewed and industry papers on topics including: financial implications of public policy concerning personal income taxes, Residential Community Associations (RCAs), and public utility companies. Her research findings have been published in the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, International Advances in Economic Research, Palmetto Promise Institute, and other journals.
Dr. Grace earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics from Clemson University and holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from Wofford College. She played volleyball for Wofford and now enjoys coaching her son and daughter’s basketball and volleyball teams, sailing, and gardening.
