Alan Lee

Alan has been advising private-business owners as well as public-corporation senior management for more than 30 years in the areas of M&A, corporate finance, succession planning, monetization of ownership interests, complex accounting matters under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), initial public offerings, Sarbanes–Oxley readiness, dispute resolution, expert-witness testimony, and use of leveraged employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) as alternatives to third-party sales. Previously, he was an audit partner and regional managing partner at PwC.

Alan has a Master of Arts in accounting from Northwestern University and an MBA in marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the Illinois Society of CPAs and the ESOP Association.

Key Engagements:

Advised multiple private companies in the process of preparing the business for a sale transaction including Quality of Earnings analysis, budgeting and forecasting, and Sarbanes Oxley readiness for IPO transactions.
Advised multiple prospective acquirers (Private Equity, public companies, Family Offices) in the due diligence process via conducting quality of earnings analysis, purchase price negotiation, and post-acquisition integration.
Advised the senior management of a public company in favorably resolving a potential material weakness opinion contemplated by its independent registered auditors.
Provided expert-witness testimony to successfully resolve purchase price disputes on behalf of clients, both buyers and sellers.
Advised a family-owned business in monetizing its entire ownership interest in the company via a leveraged ESOP transaction after the family terminated its financial advisor in an unsuccessful sale effort to private equity; proceeds received exceeded the terminated sale offer by 30%, and the transaction was completed in less than 10 weeks.