Business Valuation Expert Witnesses in Illinois

DEERFIELD, Illinois

Business Damages, Fraud - Forensic Accounting, Economic Damages, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, Fraud, Fraudulent Conveyance, Litigation Support, Business Valuation, Lost Profits, Business Plans, Start-ups, Financial Analysis, Business Interruption, Distressed Business, Divorce, Shareholder Oppression, Reasonable Compensation

Michael Goldman has been qualified as an expert numerous times in both state and federal courts in matters requiring opinions on forensic accounting, solvency, business valuation, fraudulent conveyance, fraud, economic damages, contract disputes, marital dissolution, and shareholder oppression. He has been deposed more than 25 times and has testified more than 25 times. Michael is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Valuation Analyst and is Certified in Financial Forensics by the AICPA. Mr. Goldman has worked for bankruptcy courts and trustees, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, and debtors in numerous insolvency and restructuring engagements. He has provided opinions for both plaintiffs and defendants in economic damages cases, divorce, and partnership dissolutions. Michael also maintains a tax preparation practice. Mr. Goldman was a professor teaching Entrepreneurship at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management for fifteen years a...

Saint Charles, Illinois

Business Valuation, Accounting - business taxation, partnership taxation, ESOP Valuation, finance, tax litigation, IRS Debt, trust income tax, stock valuation, accounting, IRS defense, individual taxation, LLC taxation, shareholder valuation, valuation litigation, buy-sell, shareholder taxation, divorce taxation, business valuation, tax compliance, business succession

Mr. Lewis has more than 40 years of tax and business valuation experience with a strong focus on the valuation of closely held corporations and IRS tax law defense. He has been a principal in Lewis & Associates Tax Planning, Inc. (LATP) since 2008. LATP is a boutique tax practice which provides tax planning, IRS debt resolution, IRS audit representation, tax defense and tax compliance for businesses and individuals. Prior to entering private practice Mr. Lewis worked in corporate, public accounting and legal environments for 30 years. He has held such positions as Vice President of Finance, Controller, Accounting Manager, Director of Tax, Tax Manager and Tax Writer/Researcher. Mr. Lewis also has more than 25 years of teaching experience as an Adjunct Professor at Chicago area colleges and universities. He currently teaches finance, tax and accounting at Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois. He has previously taught at DePaul University and University of Phoenix (on-ground)...

Chicago, Illinois

Business Damages - Lost Profits, Economic Damages, Accounting, Forensic Accounting, Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy Core Proceedings, Insurance and Business Interruption Claims, business valuation, Fraud, Internal Investigations

Michael focuses his professional practice on determining lost profits, lost earnings and other economic damages, forensic accounting, financial analyses, investigations and business valuation. He provides consulting and expert services regarding economic damages, forensic accounting, business interruption, contract disputes, GAAP, GAAS, solvency, alter ego, fraud and bankruptcy and financial transactions and balances. Michael provides consulting and litigation services to trial lawyers, trustees, receivers, business owners and units of federal, state and local government. Many engagements combine complex litigation, forensic accounting, financial analysis, economic damages, valuation and distressed business issues with the reconstruction of all or portion of incomplete, misstated and/or falsified accounting books and records and financial statements. Michael has more than 45 years of experience in accounting, forensic accounting, business economics and investigations including m...