Stuart K. Nakanishi, CPA, CFF
Principal
Stuart is a Certified Public Accountant and is Certified in Financial Forensics with more than 35 years of experience. He holds expertise in the following disciplines:
Family Law
- Income available for support
- Marital standard of living
- Division of assets and asset tracings
- Settlement negotiations
- Expert witness testimony
Commercial Litigation
- Economic damage and lost profit calculations
- Understanding of business formations, operations, and restructurings
- Financial analysis and record reconstruction
- Fraud investigations
- Assistance to legal counsel in depositions, interrogatories, and discovery requests
- Evaluation and rebuttal of opposing expert’s damage calculations
- Expert witness testimony
Bankruptcy
- Analysis of debtor projections
- Negotiations with prospective buyers and assistance with logistical procedures upon sale of the business
- Negotiations with creditors
- Assistance to debtors related to accounting and operational issues during bankruptcy
- Preferential transfer and fraudulent conveyance analysis
Prior to joining Seiler, Stuart served as Senior Vice President for Perry-Smith LLP, Partner at Sugarman & Company LLP, and Accounting Manager for both Sega Enterprise, Inc., and Unicon International, Ltd.
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Professional Memberships
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- California Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Bar Association of San Francisco
Education / Certification
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration (Accounting), cum laude, San Francisco State University
- Certified in Financial Forensics, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Certified Public Accountant, California