Bradley A. Heys
Vice President
Education
Completed coursework for PhD in economics, University of Toronto
JD, University of Toronto
MA, economics, Queen’s University
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Experience
Mr. Heys' expertise is in the fields of business and securities valuation, financial investigations, finance and economics. In the area of securities class actions, he provides advice on economic issues relating to class certification, liability, materiality, and damages. He also conducts financial investigations of public companies for commercial litigation, class actions and criminal matters, and performs valuations of business and securities for commercial litigation and tax purposes.
Mr. Heys has advised clients and provided testimony for cases in both Canada and the US on issues relating to market efficiency, economic materiality, loss causation and damages in the context of shareholder class actions, and has provided economic analysis for broker-dealer disputes. He has conducted investigations and provided testimony for price fixing class actions in Canada, and has advised clients on various economic issues in the context of other consumer class actions. He has conducted business and securities valuations and financial investigations, has provided advice relating to economic and accounting issues, and has quantified damages for complex commercial litigations across North America. He has also conducted business and securities valuations and financial investigations for tax purposes and tax litigations in Canada.
Mr. Heys previously worked for an investment advisory firm where he developed quantitative hedge strategies. Mr. Heys is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He obtained a JD from the University of Toronto, an MA in economics from Queen's University, and has completed the course work for a PhD in economics at the University of Toronto. He teaches a graduate level course in Economic Analysis of Law at the University of Toronto. He is co-author of NERA’s Trends in Canadian Securities Class Actions.
