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J.S. Held’s depth of experience across 19 categories of expertise is recognized by leading industry publications.
JERICHO, N.Y., July 17, 2025 -- Global consulting firm J.S. Held celebrates numerous recognitions of our company and industry experts in this mid-year update. Across J.S. Held, a curated collection of technical, scientific, and financial expert teams with an unrivaled understanding of both tangible and intangible assets has been recognized by leading industry publications for expertise in 19 categories:
Click on an award category below to learn more about our recognition and respective areas of expertise.
At J.S. Held, more than 1,500 professionals serve organizations spanning 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.
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 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.”
The company and expert recognition by notable organizations such as Asset-based Finance (ABF) Journal, Chambers and Partners, Consultancy UK, IAM, Leader's League, Lexology Index, and Verdantix serves as a further testament to J.S. Held's agile, collaborative, creative, and client-centric team providing solution-forward advisory and consulting to clients across the globe, no matter the scope or complexity of a project.
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 challenging issues that can arise in engineering and construction projects, through all forms of dispute resolution. We have an unwavering commitment to delivering the news in clear, defensible analysis and testimony addressing the issues at hand.
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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.
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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 70 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.
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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.
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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 challenging issues that can arise in engineering and construction projects, through all forms of dispute resolution. We have an unwavering commitment to delivering the news in clear, defensible analysis and testimony addressing the issues at hand.
>> Learn more about our construction litigation 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.
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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.
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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 experts as industry leaders in data privacy and protection, data security, and information technology. Our experts are 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 data privacy and information governance experts work with clients to ensure the safe management, utilization, and disposal of information throughout their global ecosystem. We combine technical expertise and investigative experience to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization’s data to minimize corporate risk, safeguard private information, and minimize exposure from non-compliance.
>> Learn more about our information governance and data privacy 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.
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J.S. Held has been ranked as a 2024 Top Forensic & Litigation Consulting Firm in the UK by Consultancy UK, based on assessments of the firm’s capabilities in forensic & litigation consulting, company reputation, analyst benchmarks, industry recognitions, and thought leadership, as evaluated by thousands of active industry executives and consultants.
Our global investigations experts provide companies, legal counsel, financial institutions, government agencies, and high-profile individuals with the information required to make well-informed business and legal decisions. Our team is retained to advise in multijurisdictional regulatory inquiries and investigations, compliance issues, business transactions, and legal proceedings.
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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, and is Our team is retained to advise in multijurisdictional regulatory inquiries and investigations, compliance issues, business transactions, and legal proceedings.
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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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Our intellectual property experts are recognized by IAM among the foremost patent professionals 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.
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Our experts are recognized by Lexology Index as experts in complex investigations, with peers and clients highlighting prominent industry leaders for their expertise in international engagements spanning asset tracing, corporate investigations, and eDiscovery.
Our global investigations 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 expertise.
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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.
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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 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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About J.S. Held
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.
Verdantix, in their Green Quadrant: Enterprise Risk Management Consulting Services (2025) report, benchmarks 15 of the most prominent enterprise risk management (ERM) advisors, identifying global consulting firm J.S. Held among the leading companies based on capabilities and momentum.