David Bart is a national director of restructuring and complex litigation. David has more than 30 years of experience assisting individuals, businesses and their counsel in complex matters from investigations and general consulting to commercial litigation. Assignments include business and strategic analysis, forensic investigation, operational assessments, restructuring, bankruptcy, workouts, and commercial litigation. Clients include public, private, and not-for-profit entities. David has provided financial and litigation consulting services and testimony involving business viability/feasibility, valuation, commercial damages, solvency analysis, fraudulent transfers, forensic accounting, and financial investigations. His engagements include matters in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. District Court, State Court as well as arbitration and mediation proceedings.
- Areas of expertise include strategic planning, feasibility analysis, financial and economic analysis, investigative accounting, statistical analysis, and business valuation involving both profit and non-profit entities
- Services have resulted in business and financial restructuring, development of business and strategic plans, successful negotiation of credit support with as well as successful litigation outcomes
- Clients include plaintiffs, defendants, committees, and other parties; and, David has served in the role of litigation/post-confirmation trustee, assignee for the benefit of creditors, post-closing arbitrator, and court appointed auditor
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
- American Society of Appraisers
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Illinois CPA Society
- Current Chair and former President of AIRA, Chair of AIRA’s Technical Issues and Standards Committee, and Co-Editor of the AIRA Journal. Primary author of AIRA’s Standards for Distressed Business Valuation
- Former Chair of ABI Litigation Trust Task Force and primary author of Practitioner’s Guide to Liquidation and Litigation Trusts. Co-author of Developing The Evidence: Using Prospective Financial Information in Bankruptcy and Other Litigation for Valuation, Damages, and Other Applications
- Author of numerous articles and presentations and teaches seminars in his fields of expertise
- Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor (CIRA)
- Certification in Distressed Business Valuation (CDBV)
- Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA)
- Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV)
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Location
Chicago, IL
Education
Master of Business Administration, finance & accounting
Bachelor of Arts, anthropology and statistics
University of Chicago