NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Duff & Phelps, the global advisor that protects, restores and maximizes value for clients, today announced that the firm has promoted 22 colleagues to the managing director level.
Jacob Silverman, President of Duff & Phelps, commented, “Our goal is to provide world-class advice to address clients’ most demanding governance challenges. This starts with our professionals. Our new managing directors exemplify what it means to protect, restore and maximize value and I look forward to their continued success at Duff & Phelps.”
Tony Berkus, Corporate Finance – Los Angeles
Mr. Berkus is
part of the Transaction Advisory Services practice and has more than 16
years of professional experience in transaction advisory, accounting and
finance. Mr. Berkus focuses exclusively on advising private equity
firms, strategic buyers and lenders on financial and accounting due
diligence. He advises private equity owned portfolio companies in a
variety of industries, including media and entertainment, software and
consumer.
Joel Bowers, Legal Management Consulting – Toronto
Mr.
Bowers oversees Canada’s Global Data Risk (GDR) practice, which assists
clients with technical matters involving sensitive data. Mr. Bowers has
submitted dozens of computer forensic expert reports and affidavits to
the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and has successfully defended them
under cross examination. Additionally, he has developed several
techniques and proprietary software tools designed to increase the
accuracy and efficiency of forensic technology processes as they pertain
to electronic discovery.
Alexander Bregonje, Valuation Advisory Services – Amsterdam
Mr.
Bregonje is part of the Valuation Advisory Services practice in the
Amsterdam office. His experience includes purchase price allocations and
asset valuations for financial reporting purposes under IFRS and U.S.
GAAP, intangible asset and goodwill impairments, equity and asset
valuations for tax purposes, valuations for regulatory purposes,
fairness opinions and shareholder value management.
Rüediger Brunschlik, Valuation Advisory Services – Munich
Mr.
Brunschlik leads the Real Estate Services Group in Munich with
responsibility for technical services, valuation, investment advisory
and document due diligence services. He has more than 16 years of
experience as an expert in the evaluation of developed and vacant
properties, as well as on performing technical and document due
diligence for a wide range of clients including private equity firms,
funds and banks.
Sharon Davies, Valuation Advisory Services – London
Ms.
Davies is part of the Valuation Advisory Services practice in
London. She has worked in Duff & Phelps’ London and New York offices and
has extensive experience performing business and financial asset
valuations for many global companies, including valuation for financial
and tax reporting, business strategy planning and restructuring and
transaction advisory support.
Cristiano Egidi, Valuation Advisory Services – Rome
Mr.
Egidi is focused on Corporate Real Estate Finance and Special Projects
in the Real Estate Advisory Group in Italy. He is responsible for
technical and financial supervision on real estate projects for major
corporations and financial institutions related to investment projects.
He has more than 12 years of experience in valuation and strategic
advisory, and with investment operations for real estate portfolios in
Italy supporting foreign investors with investment analysis of the
Italian market.
Rebecca Fuller, Valuation Advisory Services – London
Ms.
Fuller assists companies with valuation issues for a wide range of
purposes including insurance placement, risk management, disputes and
litigation, financial accounting, tax planning, mergers and acquisitions
and insolvency and restructuring. She is particularly well-known
throughout the world in the risk management, insurance broker and
underwriting communities, where her reputation for providing exceptional
client service and care precedes her.
Jonathan Goldblatt, Valuation Advisory Services – Morristown
Mr.
Goldblatt is a member of the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry group
and has over a decade of experience in providing valuation advisory
services. His areas of expertise include valuations for financial
reporting and tax purposes in the prescription pharmaceuticals, generic
pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, medical devices and consumer
products industries.
Marc Hammer, Internal Firm Services – Atlanta
Mr. Hammer
leads global talent acquisition and mobility functions for Duff &
Phelps’ Human Capital Group. He has more than 22 years of experience
helping organizations meet their headcount and growth plans, designing
best in class talent acquisition functions, formulating recruitment
branding strategies and ensuring legal requirements around employment
are met in countries around the globe.
Aviral Jain, Valuation Advisory Services – New Delhi
Mr.
Jain serves as the city leader for Duff & Phelps’ New Delhi office. With
a 12-year career and strong track record in valuation and corporate
finance, Mr. Jain has performed numerous valuations for M&A
transactions, restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy, disputes and
litigation, financial reporting and tax purposes. He has also advised
clients on domestic and cross-border acquisitions and transactions
involving private placement of equity.
Sid Jaishankar, Disputes and Investigations – Toronto
Mr.
Jaishankar is part of the Canadian Disputes and Investigations and
Valuation Advisory Services practices. With more than 15 years of
experience, he has prepared and critiqued numerous expert reports that
have been accepted by various Canadian courts in respect to business
valuation and damages quantification pursuant to a variety of dispute
matters including, but not limited to, commercial, intellectual
property, tax and securities litigation. He has also prepared valuation
reports for non-dispute purposes and has particular expertise in
developing cost of capital estimates.
Tim Martin, Disputes and Investigations – Toronto
Mr. Martin
is part of the Canadian Disputes and Investigations and Valuation
Advisory Services practices. He has over 10 years of experience in
business and securities valuation and other litigation support services.
Mr. Martin has prepared and critiqued numerous valuation and expert
reports pursuant to commercial litigation, family law matters,
intellectual property litigation, shareholder and partner disputes,
estate planning and corporate reorganizations.
Malin Nilsson, Compliance and Regulatory Consulting – Channel Islands
Ms.
Nilsson focuses on regulatory and compliance consulting and manages
relationships with a range of clients, who regularly call on her to
serve as compliance head and implement compliance arrangements. She also
leads regulatory enforcement and supervisory engagements, concentrating
on governance, systems and controls, risk management and suitability. In
addition, she has worked on a wide range of forensic investigations
including expert witness cases.
Umakanta Panigrahi, Valuation Advisory Services – Mumbai
Mr.
Panigrahi is the head of financial valuation in Mumbai and has more than
10 years of experience in financial advisory services including
valuation and equity and credit research. He has managed a range of
valuation and consulting services including business valuation,
portfolio valuation, intellectual property valuation, purchase price
allocation and impairment assessment, financial instrument valuations,
as well as other IFRS and U.S. GAAP-related engagements.
Stefanie Perrella, Valuation Advisory Services – New York
Ms.
Perrella brings over a decade of transfer pricing experience assisting
clients with all aspects of the process, from planning, documentation
and implementation to audit support and controversy. She has a strong
focus on transfer pricing strategy for financial services clients as
well as establishing best practices for assessing intercompany debt and
other intercompany financing arrangements for the firm’s top clients
across a wide spectrum of industries.
Peter Salvatori, Valuation Advisory Services – Morristown
Mr.
Salvatori focuses on portfolio valuation as well as transaction-related
valuations. He specializes in advising a wide range of alternative asset
managers, including hedge funds, private equity funds and business
development companies on valuing their positions in loans, subordinated
and mezzanine debt, convertible debt and common and preferred equity.
Claire Simm, Compliance and Regulatory Consulting – London
Ms.
Simm has considerable experience in the wealth management sector ranging
from small firms to listed entities, and has performed a number of
Section 166 appointments. She has a detailed understanding of the
regulatory requirements with a particular focus on COBS and SYSC, and
undertakes operational due diligence for fund management clients on
potential investment opportunities in both the U.S. and the U.K.
Henry Smithers, Corporate Finance – London
Mr. Smithers has
13 years of corporate finance and private equity experience during which
he has advised on a range of transactions in the business services
sector. Most recently, he has been involved in white collar services
transactions in healthcare, consulting, renewables and education and
training sub-sectors.
Adam Stormoen, Corporate Finance – Minneapolis
Mr. Stormoen
is a member of the Healthcare M&A Advisory practice. He has more than 15
years of experience in both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions and
in raising public and private capital for medical device, diagnostic,
healthcare service and healthcare IT companies. Throughout his career,
Mr. Stormoen has advised on more than 30 M&A transactions and has been
involved in more than 40 capital raises that resulted in over $3 billion
in new capital.
Lee Tourscher, Valuation Advisory Services – Philadelphia
Mr.
Tourscher is a member of the Energy and Mining group, primarily serving
clients in the power, utilities and renewable energy sectors. He has a
decade of experience advising global clients on a range of valuation and
corporate finance issues including business and asset-level valuations,
financial and tax reporting compliance, portfolio valuation, transaction
opinions, dispute consulting and restructuring.
Brian Twardoski, Legal Management Consulting – Seattle
Mr.
Twardoski is part of the Legal Management Consulting practice in
Seattle. He is an innovator of the Duff & Phelps cyber risk assessment
and scoring platform, CyberClarity360™. Mr. Twardoski is instrumental in
its development, and currently oversees the engineering, operations and
strategic vision for the product.
Christoph Ulrich, Corporate Finance – Frankfurt
Mr. Ulrich
has more than 18 years of experience in corporate finance and M&A
advisory. He has advised mid- and large-cap corporate clients, financial
investors and family offices across Europe and beyond on complex
cross-border transactions and public takeovers. Mr. Ulrich focuses on
the industrial products and business services sectors.
About Duff & Phelps
Duff & Phelps is the global advisor that protects, restores and maximizes value for clients in the areas of valuation, corporate finance, disputes and investigations, compliance and regulatory matters, and other governance-related issues. Our clients include publicly traded and privately held companies, law firms, government entities and investment organizations such as private equity firms and hedge funds. We also advise the world’s leading standard-setting bodies on valuation and governance best practices. The firm’s nearly 2,500 professionals are located in over 70 offices in 20 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.duffandphelps.com.
M&A advisory, capital raising and secondary market advisory services in the United States are provided by Duff & Phelps Securities, LLC. Member FINRA/SIPC. Pagemill Partners is a Division of Duff & Phelps Securities, LLC. M&A advisory, capital raising and secondary market advisory services in the United Kingdom are provided by Duff & Phelps Securities Ltd. (DPSL), which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. M&A advisory and capital raising services in Germany are provided by Duff & Phelps GmbH, which is a Tied Agent of DPSL. Valuation Advisory Services in India are provided by Duff & Phelps India Private Limited under a category 1 merchant banker license issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India.