Matthew Wester is a Partner in RubinBrown’s Business Advisory Services Group. He has over 20 years of varied experience in accounting and litigation consulting services and provides assistance to counsel and business management on a variety of legal disputes. His primary areas of concentration are the calculation of economic damages in commercial business disputes and fraud and forensic accounting investigations. Matthew’s background also includes computer modeling, trial graphics, bankruptcy, solvency, business valuation and out-of-court debt restructurings.

In the area of economic damages, Matthew has served as a testifying expert and assisted counsel with services ranging from pre-litigation damage assessments to mediation, arbitration and trial proceedings. He has also been a speaker for two economic damage courses approved for continuing legal education in Colorado and other states.

Matthew is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has extensive experience in fraud and forensic accounting investigations. He has been retained by individuals, closely-held companies, public companies, and law enforcement authorities to investigate cases including the misappropriation and tracing of assets, financial statement fraud, white-collar crime, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and other business and employee fraud schemes.

Matthew also has experience in the area of computer forensics, including data recovery, data conversion, data mining and database models. Matthew has been interviewed by accounting magazines on the topic of forensic accounting and is a frequent guest speaker on workplace fraud.