Unlock the complexities of trade secret valuation. Master key methodologies and legal precedents to accurately assess damages and protect intellectual property.
With heightened regulatory focus, evolving workplace dynamics, and a surge in intellectual property disputes, Trade Secret Protection is once again at the forefront of corporate risk management in 2025.
Join Brent K. Bersin, CPA, CFF, CLP, and Rebekah Bezerra, both senior leaders in Forensic and Litigation Consulting at FTI Consulting, Inc., for a timely and practical discussion on what’s new—and what’s next—in Trade Secret Law. Grounded in real-world casework and litigation support experience, this session will equip attendees with actionable insights into the latest trends, legal developments, and forensic strategies in Trade Secret enforcement.
Whether you’re navigating a high-stakes dispute or strengthening your internal risk posture, this session will help you protect your most valuable intangible assets.
Key issues to be covered in this course include:
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Senior Managing Director, Forensic and Litigation Consulting at FTI Consulting, Inc.
For 30 years, Brent Bersin’s practice has focused on providing financial and economic consulting, damages quantification, valuation, and expert witness services in intellectual property and commercial disputes. His IP experience includes market assessments, valuation, licensing, and calculating reasonable royalties, lost profits, unjust enrichment, and price erosion damages involving trade secrets, trademarks, trade dress, patents, and copyrights. Recognized by Lexology (f/k/a Who’s Who Legal) as a Thought Leader USA – Commercial Litigation Expert Witnesses, Brent has also assisted attorneys, investors, and stakeholders in valuing early- and late-stage technologies, patents, and IP portfolios for transfers, sales, licensing, intercompany transactions, and financing collateral. He has provided economic analysis and expert testimony in complex commercial disputes covering lost profits, breach of contract, restrictive covenants, valuation, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, business valuation, tortious interference, false advertising, fraud, alter ego, post-acquisition disputes, “ability to pay” disputes, and business interruption. Brent has been designated and testified as an expert witness in Federal, State, and Bankruptcy Courts, as well as in arbitration, and has frequently presented and published on economic damages, valuation, and forensic accounting topics.
Senior Director Forensic and Litigation Consulting at FTI Consulting, Inc.
Rebekah Bezerra has over a decade of experience in providing economic analysis in intellectual property matters and commercial disputes. She has assisted clients on engagements involving patent infringement, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty. Rebekah has collaborated with clients across various industries, including oil and gas, retail and consumer goods, electronic gaming, e-commerce, and telecommunications. She has reported and given deposition testimony in trade secrets litigation matters and works closely with FTI’s testifying experts to quantify economic damages in intellectual property matters and commercial disputes. Rebekah assists in managing all aspects of an engagement from the moment an engagement letter is executed through trial. She occasionally participates as a guest lecturer on economic damages related to intellectual property at South Texas College of Law Houston. Rebekah holds a B.B.A. degree with a triple major in Accounting, Business Administration, and Spanish from Houston Christian University, an M.B.A. from the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, and a J.D. from Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University.
