Mukesh Bajaj is the Managing Director of the Finance and Damages practice, a member of the Board of Directors and the Governing Board of LECG. He also teaches Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Engineering courses in the MBA and the Evening MBA and Masters in Financial Engineering programs at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D. in Finance. He received an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

Dr. Bajaj spent seven years as an Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California. There he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Finance. He has also received several teaching awards and scholastic honors and has published several articles in leading academic and applied journals, such as, The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Research in Finance, Journal of Corporation Law, and Santa Clara Law Review.

He has managed a variety of consulting and litigation support assignments in the areas of transfer pricing, valuation, commercial damages and securities fraud. His experience includes: transfer pricing; securities fraud; valuation of intellectual property, intangible assets, interests in closely held firms, warrants, restricted stock and other complex contingent securities and purchase price allocation studies. He has also consulted on financial strategy and acquisition analysis.

Dr. Bajaj has testified in binding arbitration, the U.S. District Court, Superior Court of California, the State Board of Equalization in California and the U.S. Tax Court.