YUVAL RAN Ran, Mires, Clark & Associates LLC.

YUVAL RAN

Ran, Mires, Clark & Associates LLC.

Yuval Ran is an international expert in securities fraud in the US and in other emerging markets.

Over the last 25 years Mr. Ran has been a part of, exposed to, detected, uncovered and fought various kinds of stock and investment fraud. Mr. Ran has an extensive knowledge and proven experience in uncovering and reverse engineering various kinds of securities and corporate fraud, done through multi-layer transactions and a web of shell corporations and straw people.

Prior to starting his career in the private sector, Ran worked as portfolio manager and broker at Israel Central Bank.

     Mr. Ran was the first entrepreneur to implement and float “blank check” companies in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (“TASE”). Between 1992 and 1995, 11 of his portfolio companies performed IPOs in the TASE, or were listed.

     In 1993 Mr. Ran founded Israel Credit Lines, Complementary Financial Services Ltd, Israel’s first non banking, non-institutional, retail finance company.  In 1993 Israel Credit Lines went public in the TASE.

     In 1995 and 1996 Israel Credit Lines, led by Mr. Ran performed a leveraged buyout of J.O.E.L. and the Isramco Group, which at the time was the biggest publicly traded oil and gas exploration group in Israel. (A summary can be found in Columbia University Case Study: ”Yuval Ran and Israel Credit Lines” by Professor David Beim.)

    In 2000 as a result of a deep financial crisis in the Israeli stock market and as a result of the embezzlement of Israel Credit Line’s main assets by insiders, Israel Credit Line went under involuntary receivership.

     Since 2009, Mr. Ran has been working together with Israel Credit Line’s receivers in order to reveal, expose and reverse the fraudulent insider transactions that led to the collapse of Israel Credit Lines.

     In 2012 under Yuval Ran and Associates, Ran acted as an adviser and detected, exposed and prepared for litigation a multi company reverse merger “Pump and Dump” schemes, in the US micro cap market. His work led to a multi-million dollar settlement to his clients, the victims.

     In 2013 together with Mr. Amir Mireskandari and Mr. Don K. Clark, the former FBI special agent in charge of the New York and Houston field offices, Yuval Ran founded Ran, Mires, Clark and Associates, LLC, which specializes in the investigation, detection, and analysis of stock and investment fraud on behalf of companies, shareholders and entrepreneurs.

Ran received his undergraduate degree in Economic from Tel Aviv University, and received his Master’s degree in Economics with a specialty in Finance also from Tel Aviv University. Mr. Ran also taught economics at the Law School of Tel Aviv University.