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JERICHO, N.Y., December 10, 2025 -- Global consulting firm J.S. Held proudly commemorates numerous industry and expert recognitions. Across J.S. Held, a curated collection of financial, technical, and scientific experts -- entrepreneurs with an unrivaled understanding of both tangible and intangible assets -- have been recognized by leading industry publications for expertise in the following categories, including:
Click on an award category below to learn more about our recognition and respective areas of expertise.
The company and expert recognition by notable organizations, such as Asset-based Finance (ABF) Journal, Chambers and Partners, Consultancy, IAM, Leader's League, Lexology Index, and Verdantix, serves as a further testament to J.S. Held's solution-forward consulting and advisory to clients across the globe, no matter the scope or complexity of a project.
Learn more about J.S. Held's areas of expertise here.
J.S. Held's expertise is built upon five decades of experience in the most rigorous venues – state, federal, and international courts and tribunals – spanning more than 150 different industry segments. The depth and breadth of the firm's work in the insurance market provides a strong foundation in risk assessment, data analysis, global awareness, regulatory compliance, technological adaptability, and risk mitigation. Collectively, these skills better equip J.S. Held experts to address high-stakes disputes/litigation and assess business risk across diverse markets, geographies, geopolitical landscapes, compliance frameworks, and digital advancements. "In a world where uncertainty is the only constant, there is a need for something solid you can hold onto," observes J.S. Held Chief Executive Officer Lee Spirer. "Our name is our promise," he adds. "Our role as a trusted advisor is emblematic of this promise, even in the face of the most daunting risks, clients have the expertise and guidance to act with confidence."
Expert recognition by notable organizations serves as a further testament to J.S. Held's agile, collaborative, creative, and client-centric team, reflecting the trusted advisor role the firm has earned over the last 50 years.
Chief Executive Officer at J.S. Held, Lee Spirer, adds, "I am so proud of our team. These recognitions presented by leading outlets reflect input by clients and colleagues across multiple industries, underscoring our commitment to delivering expertise and innovative solutions in the complex world. It reflects not just the individual excellence of our experts, but our collective dedication to transforming the industries in which we work through precise analysis, reliable insights, and unwavering integrity."
Our experts are recognized by Lexology Index for expertise in arbitration through nominations from peers and clients, arbitrators, tribunal members, chairs, and counsel. These awards reflect industry recognition of our experts as leaders in complex dispute resolution internationally.
We support clients in the resolution of financial, technical, and contractual issues that can arise in engineering and construction projects, through all forms of dispute resolution. Our experts provide technical insight from early discovery through final resolution, helping clients navigate challenges including contract disputes, project delays, project cost impacts, and quality defects, among other matters.
>> Learn more about our arbitration expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Lexology Index as foremost industry leaders in asset recovery, identified by peers and clients for their market-leading expertise tracing and recovering lost, misappropriated, or stolen assets in complex, multijurisdictional engagements.
Our investigative experts deliver actionable intelligence to support global asset recoveries in large-scale litigation and arbitration claims, judgements, and awards on behalf of corporations, banks, law firms, hedge funds, and litigation funders. We target high-value assets and those which may cause disruption, and work with counsel both pre-litigation and post-judgment and award to help assess and recover assets.
>> Learn more about our asset recovery expertise.
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Two J.S. Held Strategic Advisory experts are recognized as “Legends & Leaders” by ABF Journal for their outstanding impact on the specialty finance industry.
In this recognition, Michael Jacoby, J.S. Held Strategic Advisory Practice Lead, is recognized as an “Icon”, an industry leader and long-standing figure with enduring influence in asset-based lending and factoring, and Kevin Doyle is honored as a “NextGen Leader”, a rising star paving the way forward.
Michael and Kevin represent our Strategic Advisory team of professionals across the United States advising debtors, creditors, counsel, investors, and boards of directors as experts in turnaround & restructuring, fiduciary services, operational value creation, and corporate finance & office of the CFO support.
>> Learn more about this recognition and our related areas of expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Lexology Index as recommended commercial litigation expert witnesses and thought leaders, singled out by peers and clients for their outstanding ability in contentious commercial investigations and legal proceedings.
Our experts are retained in cases involving breach of contract, business interruption, construction defect, partnership disputes, intellectual property disputes, and other general business litigation. We evaluate commercial damages for clients from all sectors and geographies to deliver analyses and expert services in all forms of investigations and legal proceedings.
>> Learn more about our commercial litigation expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Leaders League as highly recommended experts in construction and engineering litigation, highlighting our expertise helping clients to navigate complex construction litigation issues and disputes.
We support clients in the resolution of financial, technical, and contractual issues that can arise in engineering and construction projects, through all forms of dispute resolution. Our experts provide technical insight from early discovery through final resolution, helping clients navigate challenges including contract disputes, project delays, project cost impacts, and quality defects, among other matters.
>> Learn more about our construction litigation expertise.
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Lexology Index recognizes J.S. Held experts as construction industry leaders, gaining recognition from peers, clients, and colleagues for their unparalleled work on disputes and claims arising from quantum and delay issues on major projects.
We provide construction consulting expertise on projects of all types and sizes, as well as claims and disputes of various complexities. As experts in construction dispute resolution, we leverage our understanding of the construction industry to avoid, and when necessary, identify, assess, and resolve construction claims and disputes that may arise. We utilize extensive construction experience to provide quantum and delay, defect, standard of care, estimating, and surety consulting services to the insurance and legal industries.
>> Learn more about our construction consulting expertise.
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Lexology Index recognizes J.S. Held experts as eminent construction quantum, delay, and technical leaders in the industry for their unparalleled expertise in quantifying costs and damages.
J.S. Held construction claims experts support construction project stakeholders by assisting in risk identification and assessment and the avoidance and resolution of project-related disputes. We deliver objective and independent analyses of complex construction matters based on years of technical field experience and industry knowledge.
>> Learn more about our construction quantum expertise.
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J.S. Held is recognized by Chambers & Partners for excellence in Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Risk consulting.
This recognition highlights our team as industry leaders, advising multinational companies on ESG issues around the world and leveraging the firm’s collective political risk, investigations, and due diligence expertise to assist with delivering guidance on ESG-related risks and disclosure obligations that is focused on addressing the triple bottom line — people, profit, and planet.
>> Learn more about our sustainability and ESG expertise.
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J.S. Held is recognized by Chambers & Partners for excellence in global investigative due diligence. This recognition highlights our team’s reputation for providing clients with due diligence expertise alongside extensive litigation support, asset tracing and recovery, and political risk consulting services.
In investigative due diligence assignments, sovereign entities, corporations, financial institutions, pension funds, private equity firms, hedge funds, legal firms, and high net worth individuals look to our experts to develop critical reputational and operational information in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, franchise and license arrangements, and the retention of key suppliers and distributors.
>> Learn more about our investigative due diligence expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Chambers & Partners for excellence in Political Risk consulting, delivering specialized expertise to clients to manage the impact of geopolitical, macroeconomic, and global social factors. This award reflects our recognition by peers and clients as industry leaders in stakeholder exposure analysis, stress testing, scenario planning exercises, political exposure analysis related to transactions and investments, and ongoing monitoring of emerging risks and opportunities.
Our experts provide objective and actionable analysis for companies facing political risk exposure. We monitor challenging sectors and countries for our clients, often in emerging and frontier regions, delivering critical information on changing political dynamics in some of the world’s most complex markets.
>> Learn more about our political risk expertise.
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Lexology Index recognizes J.S. Held digital and data experts as industry leaders, esteemed by peers and clients for their expertise in high-level data analysis and testimony in disputes, supporting lawyers and corporate clients in managing data projects, investigations, and complex data appraisals.
Our digital and data help clients identify and mitigate risk, build resiliency, protect information, manage compliance, realize business value from their data and digital assets, process and analyze large volumes of information, conduct digital investigations, respond to cyber incidents, navigate litigation, and achieve successful digital transformation outcomes.
>> Learn more about our digital & data expertise.
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J.S. Held is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Verdantix Green Quadrant for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Consulting Services.
This recognition distinguishes J.S. Held as an industry leader in risk solutions spanning business intelligence; climate and energy; cyber and digital; ESG, EHS, and sustainability; organizational, operational, and reputational risk; regulatory risk and compliance; and tangible and intangible assets.
>> Learn more about this recognition and our related areas of expertise.
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J.S. Held is recognized as an ENR Top 200 Environmental Consulting Firm. Our Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) practice provides specialized expertise in environmental damage and remediation, environmental due diligence, risk and compliance consulting, energy transition, toxicology and epidemiology, industrial hygiene, EHS digital solutions, product stewardship and product liability, and human health and safety.
>> Learn more about our environmental, health, and safety expertise.
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Our experts are recognized as industry leaders by Lexology Index for exceptional expertise handling damage assessments, pecuniary remedies, and asset valuations, and are noted by peers and clients for their strong testifying skills and detailed approach.
We combine financial expertise with industry and market knowledge to quantify economic impact and determine the value of tangible and intangible assets. Our economic damages experts evaluate, quantify, and testify in matters involving breach of contract, business interruption/lost profits, commercial litigation, family law disputes, fraud, insurance claims & subrogation, intellectual property, labor/employment disputes, personal injury, and wrongful death/medical malpractice.
>> Learn more about our economic damages and valuations expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized as leading forensic accountants by Lexology Index, highlighted by peers and clients for their vast accounting expertise in complex investigations, litigation, and financial disputes internationally.
Our forensic accountants deliver the truth behind the numbers and provide expert support in financial investigations, valuation, and risk advisory. We advise in accounting & financial disputes, bankruptcy & insolvency, business interruption & extra expense, economic damages, financial crime & fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, and tangible & intangible asset valuation, among other areas.
>> Learn more about our forensic accounting expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Leaders League as recommended experts for compliance consulting in complex investigations requiring deep forensic acumen.
Our team provides companies, legal counsel, financial institutions, government agencies, and high-profile individuals with the information required to make well-informed business and legal decisions. We are retained to advise in multijurisdictional regulatory inquiries and investigations, compliance issues, business transactions, and legal proceedings.
>> Learn more about our investigations and compliance consulting expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Leaders League as highly recommended experts for litigation support consulting in complex forensic investigations, spanning disciplines across our firm including construction disputes, fraud, and economic damages, among others.
We advise law firms, insurance companies, government agencies, financial institutions, and corporations in matters involving economic damages, contract claims and disputes, asset valuation, bankruptcy & insolvency, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, accounting & financial reporting controversies, and financial crimes.
>> Learn more about our investigations and risk mitigation consulting expertise.
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Two J.S. Held investigations experts are recognized as “Global Women to Watch” by AICPA & CIMA for their significant contributions to the accounting profession and leadership qualities that drive excellence, inclusion, and progress.
In this recognition, Michelle Avery is honored as an “Experienced Leader," a seasoned professional whose leadership and contributions have had a lasting impact on the profession, and Carey Miller is recognized as an “Emerging Leader,” a rising professional making meaningful contributions to the profession and demonstrating leadership potential.
Our experts uncovering the truth behind the numbers in financial disputes, bringing clarity to tangible and intangible asset valuation, and providing effective strategies to identify and mitigate risk. We advise law firms, insurance companies, government agencies, financial institutions, and corporations in matters involving economic damages, tangible & intangible asset valuation, cryptocurrency, bankruptcy & insolvency, sovereign debt, securities litigation, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, monitorship, accounting & financial reporting controversies, and financial crimes.
>> Learn more about our financial investigations expertise.
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Our intellectual property experts are recognized in the IAM Patent 1000 among the world's leading patent professionals. The IAM Patent 1000 is the definitive ‘go-to’ resource for those seeking to identify world-class, private practice patent expertise and leading expert witnesses.
Our intellectual property services address economic damage calculations and testimony; business licensing strategy and contract interpretation; patent-focused business intelligence; portfolio development strategy; litigation support; trade secret reasonable measures; asset and business valuation; strategy and risk management consulting; merger and acquisition advisory; debt and equity private placement; and IP brokerage.
>> Learn more about this recognition and our intellectual property expertise.
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Our intellectual property experts are recognized in the IAM Strategy 300 among the world’s leading intellectual property (IP) strategists. The IAM Strategy 300 is a guide to the pioneers in the IP industry, recognizing those who innovatively create and implement strategies that support IP as a critical business asset.
Our intellectual property services address economic damage calculations and testimony; business licensing strategy and contract interpretation; patent-focused business intelligence; portfolio development strategy; litigation support; trade secret reasonable measures; asset and business valuation; strategy and risk management consulting; merger and acquisition advisory; debt and equity private placement; and IP brokerage.
>> Learn more about this recognition and our intellectual property expertise.
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J.S. Held intellectual property experts are recognized by Lexology Index as foremost patent, trademark, and copyright leaders in the IP industry, with expertise in both contentious and transactional matters.
Our intellectual property services address economic damage calculations and testimony; business licensing strategy and contract interpretation; patent-focused business intelligence; portfolio development strategy; litigation support; trade secret reasonable measures; asset and business valuation; strategy and risk management consulting; merger and acquisition advisory; debt and equity private placement; and IP brokerage.
>> Learn more about our intellectual property expertise.
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Lexology Index has identified J.S. Held forensic accountants as industry leaders in complex investigations, highlighting recognition from our peers and clients as forensic experts in white-collar crime investigations and financial matters.
Our forensic accountants deliver the truth behind the numbers and provide expert support in financial investigations, valuation, and risk advisory. We advise in accounting & financial disputes, bankruptcy & insolvency, business interruption & extra expense, economic damages, financial crime & fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, and tangible & intangible asset valuation, among other areas.
>> Learn more about our forensic accounting expertise.
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J.S. Held's Global Talent Strategy & Development team and the LEDR™ program were recognized in three Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards® categories, presented with 2 Gold and 1 Bronze Awards of Excellence in the first year of participation.
The LEDR program received:
>> Learn more about the culture, community, and career opportunities at J.S. Held.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Chambers & Partners for their proficiency advising clients seeking enforcement of high-value litigation and arbitration awards against individuals, corporations, and sovereigns.
Our investigative experts deliver actionable intelligence to support global recoveries in large-scale litigation and arbitration claims, judgements, and awards on behalf of corporations, banks, law firms, hedge funds, and litigation funders. We target high-value assets and those which may cause disruption, and work with counsel both pre-litigation and post-judgment and award to help assess and recover assets.
>> Learn more about our asset tracing and recovery expertise.
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Our experts are recognized by Chambers & Partners for excellence in Business Intelligence & Investigations. This recognition highlights our experts as industry leaders, helping law firms and organizations to collect evidence and conduct investigations by utilizing open-source information and specialist human intelligence gathering.
Our multidisciplinary team of experts deliver unbiased, actionable, and timely insights that help our clients make well-informed business decisions. We provide critical reputational and operational information to clients regarding mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, franchise and license arrangements, intellectual property management, market entry, high-risk client onboarding, counterparty research, vendor selection, supply chain integrity, and the retention of key suppliers and distributors.
>> Learn more about our business intelligence expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized as leading forensic accountants by Chambers & Partners, highlighted by peers and clients for their vast accounting expertise in complex investigations, litigation, and financial disputes internationally.
Our experts advise in accounting & financial disputes, bankruptcy & insolvency, business interruption & extra expense, economic damages, financial crime & fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, and tangible & intangible asset valuation, among other areas.
>> Learn more about our forensic accounting expertise.
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J.S. Held was recognized by Turnaround & Workouts as an Outstanding Turnaround Firms for 2025 for its expertise in engagements including bankruptcy advisory; financial advisory to companies and lenders; receiverships; Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC); and serving as Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO), independent director, and Liquidating Trustee or Plan Administrator.
Drawing upon decades of experience in the turnaround and restructuring space, we help companies in transition identify practical strategies to improve profitability and liquidity for immediate relief, while concurrently developing and executing a comprehensive turnaround plan for long-term, sustainable value creation. Our experts collaborate with client management teams, providing hands-on guidance informed by extensive industry and turnaround experience. We provide leadership to assist our clients with resource management and the implementation of fundamental changes necessary for performance improvement.
>> Learn more about our turnaround and restructuring expertise.
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J.S. Held experts are recognized by Lexology Index as leading industry practitioners for their expertise in high-profile regulatory, finance, and contentious matters in the transportation sector.
We provide specialized construction, scientific, technical, financial, and strategic expertise to the transportation industry spanning from the retooling of existing infrastructure to new development. Our highly trained and experienced team of engineers, general contractors, accident reconstruction experts, construction management professionals, estimators, code experts, schedulers, and cost analysts are engaged in matters involving many of the largest transportation infrastructures around the world.
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J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.
More than 1,500 professionals serve organizations across six continents, including 84% of the Global 200 Law Firms, 75% of the Forbes Top 20 Insurance Companies (90% of the NAIC top 50 Property & Casualty Insurers), and 71% of the Fortune 100 Companies.