Multi-State Taxation and Accounting Expert Witnesses: 3

Alistair Hynd has over 15 years experience in Corporate Finance. He heads the Project Finance and Financial Modelling Team that functions at Baker Tilly Corporate Finance, LLP (Baker Tilly). Mr. Hynd specialises in Project Finance, PFI, PPP and Debt Advisory plus Financial Modeling. 

Mr. Hynd is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and member of the Institute's Corporate Finance faculty. He is also a full member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Mr. Hynd's team at Baker Tilly can become involved in Project Finance or Financial Modeling in three ways:

• Financial Adviser to the Government – structuring projects, evaluating bids, and negotiating detail
• Financial Adviser to the Consortium – assembling the bid, refining and optimising it, and acting as interface with funding markets
• Acting for the Banks and other Lenders - providing reassurance that the model on which they are lending is fit for purpose.

Other Services Include

• Capital Markets: Reporting Accountants, Flotation e.g. advice on Financial Structuring, Accounting Systems and Policies, Share Option, Director / Employer Benefits, Audit and Taxation services
• Due Diligence: Historic Performance, Cash Flows, Assets and Liabilities, Forecasts, Working Capital Requirements, Financial Systems and Controls, Taxation
• Mergers and Acquisitions / Private Equity:Preparing / Maximise Value from Business Sales, Negotiate Terms and Raise Private Equity / Debt Finance to Support Management Buy Out or Buy In, Raising Private Equity / Debt Finance for Growth, Cash Out or Recapitalisation, etc.
• Valuations: Shares, Businesses, Options and Warrants, Various Derivatives, Brands and other Intellectual Property, Film and Media Rights,Income Producing Assets

Tony Wayne, CPA, CFF, CVA, CIRA, is a Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years of private industry senior operations experience.

Background - After a diverse career spanning 15 years in Big 8 public accounting/consulting and private industry, Mr. Wayne founded IronHorse in 1998 with an emphasis on complex turnarounds and restructuring consulting, crisis management, advisory services, CFO services, and litigation support. IronHorse is an ideal solutions resource for the closely held, family owned middle, or small-market industrial firms in transition serving a six-state region including Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Visit their website at www.ihorsellc.com.

Litigation Support - Mr. Wayne is available to advise boards of directors, senior management, and corporate counsel in all litigation matters that can impact business practices, profitability, and continued viability. He maintains rigorous compliance with certifying and credentialing bodies and their regulations and scrutinizes the facts behind complicated forensic accounting and valuation issues.

He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, including the Business Reorganization Committee and Fraud Task Force. In addition, he is a member of the American Institute of CPA’s, the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors, the National Association of Valuation Analysts, and the Turnaround Management Association,

Mr. Wayne's services include expert witness assistance (consulting and testifying), solvency opinions, rebuttal expertise, case assessment management, and services in other areas of dispute and pre-complaint, complaint, discovery, pre-trial, and settlement consulting.

Forensic Services Include:

• Fraud prevention, detection and response
• Financial Reporting Fraud and Irregularity Forensic Audits
• Electronic Evidence Analysis
• Preservation and Securitization
• Ponzi Scheme Analysis
• Asset Searches, Public Records Searches, and Related Party Search and Documentation
• Pink Sheet and Other Stock Scams
• Private Placement Fraud Analysis & Investigations
• Borrowing Base and other Bank Fraud Examinations/Investigations
• Criminal Investigations

Valuation Services Include:

Family Law Mergers and Acquisitions-Buy & Sell Side Advisory Estate Tax Returns E.S.O.P Valuations Disputes Buy / Sell Agreements Distressed Business Valuation Plan of Reorganization Valuation

Liquidation Plan Valuation Lost Profit and Damages Computations/Valuation Solvency Opinions Goodwill and Intangible Asset Fair Value Impairment Valuation Lender & Private Equity Due Diligence / Portfolio Valuations Exit, Succession, Wealth and Estate Planning Valumetric Modeling and Template Development

View Tony Wayne's Consulting Profile.

Moss Adams provides forensic accounting, litigation support, business valuations in addition to our tax and audit practice. They specialize in the areas of Health Care, Manufacturing and Distribution, Real Estate Construction, Agri-Business, and Information Technology. 

Moss Adams is a fully integrated professional services firm dedicated to assisting clients with growing, managing, and protecting prosperity. With more than 3,400 professionals across more than 25 locations in the West and beyond, they work with many of the world’s most innovative companies and leaders. Their strength in the middle market enables us to advise clients at all intervals of development—from start-up, to rapid growth and expansion, to transition. 

For more information, please contact us or visit our website.