About Us
Founded in 2024, Dispute Economics is led by owner Megan Becwar. Megan graduated from Drexel University in 2004 with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and a concentration in economics. Megan is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), and Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF).
Megan has more than 20 years of experience providing consulting services in a variety of matters requiring the investigation of financial and economic data and determination of value. Megan’s areas of expertise include business valuation and economic damages. She has provided services to attorneys, insurance companies, government agencies, and public and private corporations across multiple industries.
Megan volunteers on the Board of Directors and Finance Committee of Project 440, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help young people use their interest in music to forge new pathways for themselves and ignite change in their communities. She was honored as one of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts’ 40 Under Forty and received the Rising Star Award from the American Society of Appraisers. She is a member of the National Association of Forensic Economics, and past President of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Society of Appraisers.
As a qualified expert, Megan has provided testimony in depositions, arbitration, and court settings. She has managed assignments requiring the valuation of businesses, business segments, and intangible assets as well as the quantification of economic damages and/or investigative analyses in circumstances such as class actions, shareholder suppression, business destruction and interruption claims, contract and intellectual property disputes, fraud, wage and hour violations, and wrongful termination and personal injury matters.
Megan’s financial expert and testimony history is as follows:
Trial | United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania Donovan Realty, LLC et al. v. Campers Inn Holding Corporation, et al. |
2023 | United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania Donovan Realty, LLC et al. v. Campers Inn Holding Corporation, et al. |
2023 | United States District Court Southern District of New York Lori Gardner-Alfred and Jeanette Diaz v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
2021 | Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Chancery Division Bryan Younge v. Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., et al. |
2021 | United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania T.N. Incorporation Ltd. v. Fidelity Information Services, LLC, Fidelity National Information Services Ltd. (Netherlands) B.V. and Fidelity Information Services (Thailand) Ltd. |
2019 | United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania Patricia Young v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America |
2015 Trial | Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia, PA J.H., a minor by Rhonda Harrison, et al. v. Fresh Grocer Holdings, LLC and Chew Foods, LLC and 5601 Foods, LLC and Chester Avenue Foods, LLC |
2015 Hearing | FINRA Arbitration Philadelphia, PA William Norris Jordan, Jr. v. Kildare Capital, Inc. d/b/a/ Kildare Capital and Sean Sweeney |
2011 | Delaware Court of Chancery McGonigle and Gerhart v. VTech Construction, Inc. et al. |
Megan has instructed business valuation courses for the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and spoken before the American Society of Appraisers, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and various other groups on topics such as business valuation, forensic accounting, and economic damages.
A list of Megan’s publications and speaking engagements is provided below. Upcoming speaking engagements are posted on LinkedIn, and requests to have Megan speak for your firm or event can be submitted through our Contact portal.
- “Selecting the Right Valuation Expert,” Financial Poise Webinars™, Virtual, 2023
- “Effectively Pleading Quantum in International Arbitration”, Volterra Fietta, Virtual, 2022
- “Selecting the Right Valuation Expert”, Financial Poise Webinars™, Virtual, 2022
- “Expertise, Technical Points, and Stories – A Round Table Discussion”, National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE), Virtual, 2022
- Managing Financial Impacts of the Pandemic – 2020 Engineering News-Record
- “Understanding Common Financial Records”, Brehon Law Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
- “Applicability of USPAP to Calculations and Calculations for Litigation Purposes”, Philadelphia Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 2019
- “Navigating Ethics in Litigation”, Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), Philadelphia, PA, 2018
- “Business Divorce: Start-up to Litigation to Resolution”, PBI, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
- “Art of Deposition”, PBI, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
- “Art of Deposition”, PBI, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
- “The Market Approach: Using the Transaction Method”, PICPA, Harrisburg, PA, 2014
- “AICPA Testing for Goodwill Impairment Guide”, PICPA, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
- “Drill Down on the Market Approach to Business Valuation”, PICPA, Harrisburg, PA, 2013
- BV Standards in Litigation Consulting Engagements – 2012 National Litigation Consultant’s Review
- “Drill Down on the Market Approach to Business Valuation”, PICPA, Harrisburg, PA, 2012
- “Lost Profits and Business Destruction Damage Claims”, American Society of Appraisers – Southern New Jersey Chapter, Cherry Hill, NJ, 2010
- “The Expert’s Role and Testimony”, Office of Auditor Accounts – State of Delaware, 2010
Contact
Office: +1 (215) 701-1030
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Location
1617 John F. Kennedy Boulevard
20th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103