SEDA Experts Expands its Derivatives Expert Witness Practice

New York, NY, March 22, 2024 – SEDA Experts LLC, a leading expert witness firm providing world-class financial expert witness services, announced today that Kevin M. Murphy joined the firm as Managing Director.

“Kevin’s experience and insight spans a wide variety of structured products across financial markets,” said Peter Selman, Chairman and Managing Partner of SEDA Experts.

Kevin Murphy has spent over 30 years in financial markets and is an acknowledged expert in equity markets, risk and structured products. He is presently a partner at Sachs Capital Group Asset Management overseeing Trading, Risk and Product Development after leadership roles at several global investment banks. Kevin was a structured derivatives trader in New York and London across the fixed income, foreign exchange and equity markets.

Kevin managed highly successful structured equity derivative trading teams at JP Morgan, Lehman and Barclays. At Barclays, he led a 300-person group of global trading, structuring and sales teams focusing on client solutions and structured transactions including corporate derivatives, margin financing, structured investment products, quantitative investment strategies and fund derivative solutions.

Kevin’s roles also included significant infrastructure design, capital allocation and risk oversight across the global markets businesses as well as extensive regulatory oversight responsibilities ranging from Federal Reserve CCAR, stress testing, benchmark administration and model valuation.

Throughout Kevin’s career he has had extensive involvement in the more complex products available for investing clients. They have included systematic strategies and fund financing as well as complex products for insurance companies. Kevin was granted leadership roles in both fixed income and equity exotics businesses after beginning his career as a quantitative researcher for fixed income portfolios.

Kevin earned his Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Economics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He resides with his wife and child in New York City.

About SEDA Experts LLC

SEDA is a leading expert witness firm specializing in financial services. We support international law firms by offering the highest level of expertise across the financial industry and providing access to the most influential financial services industry leaders. We provide superior independent advice, data analytics, valuation, and elite expert reports and testimony services to law firms, regulators, and leading financial institutions.

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