Mr. Ian Ratner

Ian Ratner, CPA, ASA, CFE, ABV is a co-founder of GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC in Atlanta and has 30 years of experience in public accounting, forensic accounting, business valuations, due diligence services, corporate finance and bankruptcy consulting. He previously held senior leadership positions with Kroll Inc. and the Financial Advisory Services (FAS) practice at Ernst & Young. Mr. Ratner has represented borrowers and lenders in and out of formal bankruptcy proceedings. He led the firm?s efforts on behalf of the creditor committees in Nationwide Furniture and Mattress Wholesalers, Value Music Concepts Inc., Adventure Parks Group LLC, The Billing Resource (d.b.a. Integretel) and Fairfield Residential. During the real estate meltdown of 2007-10, Mr. Ratner led a variety of real estate (multifamily, retail, condo development and homebuilder) debt-restructuring assignments for both single-asset/single-lender and multibank/multiasset credit facilities, including supporting the restructuring of the related group one of the nation?s largest condo developers headquartered in Miami, and leading the restructuring of John Wieland Homes, a homebuilder headquartered in Atlanta. He has also been appointed special master, receiver, chapter 7 trustee, liquidating agent and advisor to independent arbitrators, and he is a fiduciary. Mr. Ratner has been an expert witness in complex commercial litigation cases, fraud investigations, bankruptcy litigation and solvency-related valuation disputes. He has testified at trials, arbitrations, and depositions on nearly 150 occasions and has worked on matters throughout the U.S. and Caribbean for law firms, governmental agencies and Fortune 500 companies.\nHe has been retained as a forensic accounting, damages and valuation expert on behalf of UPS, Kodak, PNC Bank, BB&T, HCA, FMNA, Dell, Delta, Equifax, CIBC World Markets, AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bellsouth, Verizon, Cingular Wireless, the City of Atlanta, Emory University and the University of Kansas, among others. Mr. Ratner has been interviewed on the ?Nightly Business Report? and ?Fox Business.? He also co-authored Business Valuation and Bankruptcy (Wiley 2009) and was inducted as\na Fellow in the American Bankruptcy College in 2010. He is often called on for high stakes litigation, such as his role as an expert witness on behalf of the Special Receiver in Livent Inc. v. Deloitte & Touche LLP, various plaintiffs in the Engle progeny-tobacco litigation, or his role as an expert on behalf of the Department of Justice in the penalty phase of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Litigation. In 2017\nand 2018, Mr. Ratner was named as one of the Top 100 Restructuring & Turnaround Professionals by the Global M&A Network and the ?Top Individual Expert Witness ? Economic Analysis? by the Daily Report. He received his graduate and undergraduate business degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.