Ken Malek

Background

About Ken Malek

Kenneth J. Malek has over 35 years of experience assisting companies with transactions, disputes and restructurings, including mergers and acquisitions, valuation, debt rationalization, turnaround and expert testimony. He has been engaged as an advisor in a number of industries, including airlines / travel and leisure, financial services, manufacturing and distribution, power and energy, real estate and construction, and retail. Mr. Malek has performed valuation and/or transaction advisory services for a number of well-known public and privately held companies. He has been a transaction and valuation advisor in over $20 billion in completed transactions. He has also served a number of family and entrepreneur-owned businesses and is well versed in addressing the sometimes special circumstances and value-drivers of these businesses and their owners. The matters on which Mr. Malek has provided valuation services comprise valuations of business enterprises, equity interests and intangible assets. He has served as a neutral valuation expert. Mr. Malek has been retained as an examiner and has testified as an expert in the U.S. District Courts of Delaware, Illinois and Texas, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts of Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan and Virginia, in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and in arbitration proceedings. The matters on which he has been engaged as an expert include valuation; business plans and business viability; economic damages and causation; avoidance actions and Ponzi Schemes; professional practice standards; and accounting investigations. Mr. Malek has been retained as a testifying or consulting expert in over 80 cases. The out-of-court and Chapter 11 cases in which Mr. Malek has played major roles include Allis Chalmers, ATA Airlines, Bally Total Fitness, Delta Petroleum, Dornier Aviation (North America), Fansteel, Global Crossing, Longview Aluminum, LTV Steel, Paul Harris Stores, St. Francis Health Systems, Wickes Furniture and Wildman. Specialties: Valuation. M&A Transactions. Fairness Opinions. Investigations. Expert Witness. Expert witness on matters including valuation; bankruptcy recovery actions; forensic investigations; solvency and insolvency; economic damages, causation, and mitigation of damages; fraud, Ponzi Schemes, tracing of funds; accounting methods and standards; professional practice standards; substantive consolidation, recharacterization and equitable subordination; and wrongful takings issues pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court's Penn Central standards.