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Mr. Allen Pfeiffer

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Mr. Allen Pfeiffer

Allen M. Pfeiffer is a managing director and a global service leader of Expert Services in Financial Ser-vices & Valuation Litigation at Kroll, LLC in New York. He is also a member of Kroll?s Governance andRisk Advisory Operating Committee, which provides for all complex damages cases and bankruptcylitigation. His practice is focused on providing valuation, solvency, damages, cash-flow assessment, cap-ital-structure analysis, structured securities and independent investigations. Mr. Pfeiffer has more than25 years of experience advising both foreign and domestic buyers, sellers, joint-venture partners, hedgefunds, private-equity finds, plaintiffs and defendants in mergers and acquisitions/corporate finance situ-ations with regard to business valuation, damages, RMBS repurchase claims, strategic planning, raisingfinancing, spin-offs, transaction support, bankruptcy, litigation, tax, financial reporting, solvency, valu-ing derivatives, fairness opinions, IP holding companies, restructurings and capital-structure analysis.He has led hundreds of engagements related to the valuation of an entire business, a security, an inter-est in a business or an asset. In addition to his testifying experience, Mr. Pfeiffer often worked as leadconsultant to attorneys in the context of retrospective solvency and many other valuation and corporatefinance matters. He also led the financial advisory team to the bankruptcy examiner for Lehman Brothers. Mr. Pfeiffer is an adjunct processor of finance at the Sy Syms School of Business. He was consistently ranked in The Deal Pipeline Bankruptcy League Table U.S. Top Investment Bankers (by volume)each quarter from 2007-14. Additionally, he has been accepted by the New York Supreme Court, U.S.bankruptcy courts, the American Arbitration Association and arbitrators operating under the rules of theInternational Chamber of Commerce as a valuation and cash flow expert. Previously, Mr. Pfeiffer was a managing director with Standard & Poor?s Corporate Value Consulting at the time of its merger withDuff & Phelps (now Kroll) and was a member of the CVC practice of Price water house Coopers LLP at the time of its sale to Standard & Poor?s. Prior to joining Coopers & Lybrand, he worked for an affiliate of Alex Brown and was an actuarial analyst at Kwasha Lipton, a benefit consulting firm. Mr. Pfeiffer received his B.A. cum laude in economics and mathematics from Yeshiva University and his M.B.A. infinance with distinct honors from Columbia Business School. He also successfully completed four professional exams within his tenure as an actuary: multivariable calculus, probability theory, mathematical statistics and numerical equations.