Casey Ballard

Casey Ballard has been providing consulting services and expert witness testimony to clients in the areas of finance, accounting, and risk management for over 20 years. 

Her services have included damage calculations, lost profit calculations, valuations, and investigations. The issues involved have related to GAAP, international accounting standards, SEC financial reporting for international entities, financial modeling, derivatives, risk management in trading organizations, internal control structures, reviews of trading positions, analysis of off-balance sheet structures, analysis of structured financing transactions, due diligence, international projects, energy regulations, joint venture contract audits, accounting analyses and investigations of financially distressed and bankrupt entities, and other forensic accounting services.

Casey has primarily focused her work on the energy industry. Her clients include both domestic and international companies, as well as leading law firms, and her engagements have covered the oil, natural gas, liquids, electricity, and petrochemical segments of the energy industry.

Casey’s experience in the upstream and downstream segments of the petroleum industry includes forensic accounting for financial and physical trades of energy commodities, crude and natural gas valuation, product valuation, pricing of production, pricing of processed products, transportation pricing, royalty valuation, MMS issues, gas marketing best-practices, and valuation of energy companies. 

Examples of her recent case experience include a liquified natural gas (LNG) supply dispute, several deep-water offshore crude oil production disputes, multiple natural gas processing plant cost allocation disputes, a valuation of an interstate natural gas pipeline company for litigation purposes, and a dispute between a gas marketer and its client involving best practices.

Prior to joining Stout, Casey was a Senior Advisor at The Claro Group. She has also held positions in other nationally renowned consultancies. She began her career in the litigation service practices of Big Four public accounting firms.