Mr. Paul N. Shields

Paul N. Shields, CFA, CPA, ABV, CGBV is a managing director with Berkeley Research Group, LLC in Salt Lake City and has more than 25 years of experience as a financial analyst and valuation expert. He has expertise in business valuation, damage assessments and the evaluation of earnings capacity, particularly in the context of financial distress and bankruptcy. Mr. Shields has assessed reasonably equivalent value and solvency in the context of avoidance actions, and has evaluated business interests and assets for corporate reorganizations and distressed sales. He has also performed services in the context of state court receiverships and as a special master and mediator, and has testified in federal and state courts on numerous occasions. He is a frequent speaker for ABI, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Shields received his B.A. in accounting in 1987 and his M.B.A. in 1992 from the University of Utah.