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Bill is a Managing Director of Empire Valuation Consultants, LLC and has been with Empire since 1994 . He earned his M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at NYU and holds a BS in Finance and International Business from Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Johnston is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers. He has twelve years of experience in business and intangible asset valuations. He has valued the equity, debt, options/warrants, carried interests etc. of publicly and privately held businesses for acquisitions, stock repurchases, lending, estate and gift tax reporting, financial reporting, re-capitalization, litigation, fairness opinions and general corporate planning purposes. He also has a significant amount of experience valuing technology companies, hedge and private equity funds, and early stage businesses. In addition, he has valued intangible assets, including trademarks/names, covenants-not-to compete, recipes, in process and finished technologies, workforces in place, customer lists and relationships, licenses, patents and patent applications, etc. and has done valuations for asset allocation purposes. He also has performed and managed numerous engagements regarding goodwill impairment testing. Mr. Johnston also has experience valuing foreign companies located in Canada, Bermuda, Europe and Asia. Currently he serves as President of the ASA’s New York City Chapter. Mr. Johnston also acts a guest lecturer at Fordham University, speaking on the topic of intangible asset valuation. He also has taught a Center for Advanced Valuation Studies (CAVS) course on purchase price allocation (SFAS 141) and impairment testing (SFAS 142, SFAS 144) for the ASA and spoken at various ASA events on the topic of intangible asset valuation. | 