Paul Vogt

Located in PCE’s Atlanta office, Paul leads the firm’s valuation practice. Paul has more than 20 years of consulting and valuation experience, focusing on the valuation of public and privately held businesses, business interests, intangible assets, intellectual property, and related matters for purposes of financial statement reporting, corporate planning, tax planning, litigation support, and other purposes. Paul has been primarily focused on providing intangible asset purchase price allocation, goodwill and long-lived asset impairment testing analyses for financial statement reporting purposes pursuant to FASB ASC 805, 350, and 360, and valuing equity securities issued as compensation pursuant to FASB ASC 718 / IRC 409A. In addition, Paul has extensive experience in the valuation of privately held equity securities in complex financial structures, convertible debt, performance and market-based equity awards, warrants with price protection features, embedded derivatives, and contingent consideration for financial statement reporting and other purposes. With his broad experience, Paul has advised public and private companies, private equity firms and their investors, nonprofits, attorneys, and government agencies in valuation, investment, and other financial consulting matters across multiple industries including technology companies focused in information services, ecommerce, social media, and cloud/SaaS, healthcare companies consisting of hospitals, physician practices, and medical clinics, manufacturing, consumer product retailers, and automotive retailers just to name a few. Paul also has prior experience in litigation support in shareholder disputes, marital dissolution and civil and criminal investigations.

Specialties: Financial Advisory Services - business valuation, complex financial instrument valuation, and intangible asset/intellectual property valuation advisory services.

Director in Forensic and Valuation Services group at Grant Thornton LLP specializing in the valuation of public and closely-held businesses, business interests, intangible assets and intellectual property. Valuation analyses are performed primarily for financial reporting, with a focus on purchase price allocations, goodwill and long-lived asset impairment testing and valuing securities (stock options and other equity-based awards) issued as compensation subject to compliance with FASB ASC 718 and IRC 409A.

* Managed and executed financial analyses for valuation and litigation purposes, including criminal and civil actions. * Analyses involved trending historical financial data, research and reporting economic and industry conditions and the impact on future expectations. * Performed detailed financial analyses for tax purposes, corporate planning, shareholder disputes, marital dissolution, purchase price allocations and acquisitions. * Industries included hospitals, medical practices, manufacturing, consumer product retailers, automotive retailers, and high-tech companies. * Findings were reported and presented to executives, board members and government officials in highly classified and contentious matters.

* Managed various assignments involving in-depth financial analyses of publicly traded corporations, small companies and government entities. * Engagements entailed performing audit reviews, financial statement analyses, and economic and market condition evaluations and applying these measurements to budgets, forecasts, and lost profit damage assessments, as well as potential fraud and criminal investigations. * Projects involved development of various ad-hoc analyses, spreadsheets, exhibits and reports presented to various executives, attorneys, and government entities in confidential and highly classified matters.