Mr. Lucas has more than 25 years of investment and business valuation experience. He has analyzed, valued and managed billions of dollars of assets including privately held equity interests, leveraged loans, high yield bonds, credit default swaps (CDS), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and a variety of other types of asset backed securities (ABS), total return swaps (TRS) and credit linked notes (CLN).

Mr. Lucas enjoyed considerable success as a leveraged debt fund manager. Through his investments in distressed debt he was involved as a principal in numerous debt restructurings and sat on several bank loan steering committees through the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.

Prior to founding the Lucas Valuation Group, Mr. Lucas was a principal at ValueScope, Inc. where he assisted business owners and managers, accountants, financial institutions, attorneys and others with valuations of businesses, intellectual property, complex derivative securities, purchase price allocations and many other types of analyses. Mr. Lucas has qualified to testify as an expert witness in both federal and state courts on many occasions.