Richard Blaine Peil

Richard Peil is a financial professional with GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC in Phoenix and has more than 25 years of financial advisory experience. Prior to joining GlassRatner in 2011, he was a managing director in the Corporate Finance and Financial Restructuring practices of XRoads Solutions Group, LLC from 2000-11 and was a director in the Valuation Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC from 1991-2000. Mr. Peil has led hundreds of complex valuation and financial advisory assignments for a multitude of reasons, such as advising buyers and sellers on transaction prices, purchase price allocations and fairness opinions; advising debtors and creditor groups in connection with the reorganized value of companies in chapter 11 bankruptcy and fresh- start accounting for reorganized companies; providing solvency and fair value opinions for bankruptcy litigants involved in fraudulent conveyance and preference actions; providing Topic 820 (FAS 157) valuations of closely held debt and equity securities owned by private-equity firms and hedge funds; and the determination of economic damage computations for both plaintiffs and defendants embroiled in commercial litigation disputes. He has worked with companies operating in a broad range of industry sectors, including aerospace, consumer electronics, defense, energy, financial services, manufacturing, media and entertainment, real estate, restaurants, retail, technology, telecommunications and utilities. Mr. Peil is a member of the CFA Institute and holds the FINRA Series 79 investment banking license. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at business valuation conferences, including those hosted by the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Analysts (AIRA). He has also presented CLE seminars to a number of the leading U.S. law firms on the topics of business valuation principles and understanding financial statements. Mr. Peil holds a B.S. in economics and an M.B.A from the University of Kansas.