About me
Marc’s practice over the past fifty years has included providing business valuation, financial restructuring and expert witness services on a number of civil and criminal cases as well as serving, for the past thirty-five years, as a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee, a Chief Restructuring Officer, an examiner with expanded powers. as a Federal and State court receiver, and as a court appointed special master. He has also assisted clients involved in civil litigation in matters involving construction litigation, employment related litigation, professional malpractice, oil and gas disputes (upstream, oilfield services, downstream and midstream), intellectual property, breach of contract, trust and estate disputes, lender liability issues, personal injury, fraud and bankruptcy. The industries Marc has worked in include publishing, retail, healthcare- including medical devices, home and inpatient care, hospice care, neighborhood emergency care facilities, dialysis and oncology clinics, and general medical practice operations- oil and gas, biofuels, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation and refined products trading, amongst others. He is experienced in testifying in federal, state and bankruptcy courts as well as in arbitration proceedings throughout the United States.
Marc was awarded his CPA certificate in 1975, was recognized with the Certified Fraud Examiner designation by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in 1989 and was Certified in Financial Forensics by the AICPA in 2008. In 2014 the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his more than twenty‐five years of service to the anti‐fraud profession. In 2019 he was admitted to Full Membership in the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers, an organization of 150 Full Members who have “…been appointed as federal equity receivers in matters of material size and complexity.” In 2023 he received the CRC designation recognizing his qualifying to use Chainalysis’ Reactor software for locating and tracking crypto currency on the internet.
Marc started his career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) where he spent twenty years, the last twelve as an audit partner with the firm, working for a variety of client industries. His clients included Gulf Oil Corporation, Sterling Chemicals, Inc. and Mt. Airy Trading Company (at the time the largest refined products trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange, accounting for one third of the Exchange's volume). Marc also oversaw the Firm’s Houston based Forensic and Valuation Services practice and served as the Firm’s Southwest Region Coordinator of Banking Services.
Marc founded Schwartz Associates in 2019 to provide financial forensics, restructuring reorganization services, and blockchain forensic services,
