Michael Bender, ASA
Michael Bender has approximately 20 years of valuation experience, including valuations of businesses and business segments, complex financial instruments, contingent consideration, and intangible assets. Michael participates in a wide variety of valuation engagements for financial reporting, tax planning and compliance, and strategic planning. Michael serves large private and public companies, middle-market firms, and early-stage, venture-backed companies.
Michael has extensive experience serving companies based in a wide range of industries, including biotechnology, computer hardware and software, entertainment, financial services, foodservice, healthcare, home building, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, and wholesale distribution.
Representative engagements include:
- Purchase price allocations pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 805: Business Combinations
- Goodwill and indefinite-lived assets impairment analyses pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 350: Intangibles-Goodwill and Other
- Long-lived assets and finite-lived intangible assets impairment analyses pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 360: Property, Plant, and Equipment
- Common stock valuations for tax and financial reporting pursuant to section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code and FASB ASC Topic 718: Compensation-Stock Compensation
- Valuations for tax planning and compliance, including appraisals performed for gift and estate tax reporting
- Valuations of various structures for private placement life insurance policies