Contact me at ebelanger@belanger-valuation.com, and visit my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/edbelanger.
With 22 years’ experience, including 12 years at Big Four accounting firms, and an additional 10 years in leadership roles at national and global valuation firms, Ed Belanger has been on both sides of the audit review process hundreds of times as it relates to fair value opinions and valuations performed for financial reporting purposes. All the large global accounting firms, and most of the major national and regional firms, have successfully reviewed his work, as have many leading tax advisory firms.
Ed’s experience includes all aspects of financial reporting valuation, including purchase price allocation, impairment testing, complex securities and stock compensation, private equity portfolio valuation, and fresh start valuation. He has strong industry expertise in telecommunications and media, many technology sectors, oil and gas, retail and restaurants, food processing, and manufacturing.
He has also performed numerous valuations for tax purposes for many large public companies in the areas of cross-border reorganization, loss limitation calculation, like-kind exchange, purchase price allocation, worthless stock deduction, interest expense allocation, deferred compensation, non-compete agreements and personal goodwill, and the establishment of carry-over tax basis.
He has also led the valuation of portfolios of intellectual property, including trademarks and brand names, patents, data and creative libraries, and rental stream assets, for both debt financing and financial reporting purposes. Finally, Ed has led numerous fairness and solvency opinions on behalf of companies primarily in the telecom, technology and energy sectors.
Ed holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute and the Accredited Senior Appraiser designation in Business Valuation from the American Society of Appraisers.