Aziz El-Tahch is a Manager in the Valuation & Financial Opinions Group. His concentration is in ESOP and ERISA Advisory Services. He has experience in the valuation of business interests for both private and public corporations. Mr. El-Tahch has performed valuation analyses in a broad range of industries and for numerous purposes, including fairness and solvency opinions, estate and gift taxation, shareholder disputes, purchase price allocation, mergers and acquisitions, marital dissolutions, and liability and damages analysis. He has extensive experience in the valuation of business ownership interests in Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and has performed analyses related to ESOP security formation and transactions, determination of transaction fairness and adequate consideration and annual employer security valuation updates. Mr. El-Tahch also has experience with intangible asset valuation analyses. Among the many industries that Mr. El-Tahch has served are biotechnology, computer services, construction, engineering, financial services, government contracting, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and wholesale distribution. Prior to joining our firm, Mr. El-Tahch was a Senior Investment Analyst at a New York-based alternative assets investment fund with approximately $500 million under management. At the fund, Mr. El-Tahch focused on credit card debt securitizations, collateralized debt obligation (CDO) and collateralized loan obligation (CLO) securities, and second-lien and mezzanine loans to middle-market companies. Among the industries that Mr. El-Tahch served are the regional banking and healthcare industries. Mr. El-Tahch has authored several articles related to the valuation of intangible property in connection with business valuation and transfer pricing analyses. Mr. El-Tahch graduated magna cum laude, phi beta kappa from Georgetown University s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a concentration in Economics. He is a member of the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR), the Washington Society of Investment Analysts, and the ESOP Association. Mr. El-Tahch has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.