P.J. Patel – CFA, ASA – has over 20 years’ experience in support of
mergers and acquisitions and is well known in the M&A community, P.J. is also a notable speaker,
including the AICPA SEC conference, an annual valuation conference in
Milan, and expert panels of the American Society of Appraisers.
He is the current chair of the Appraisal Institute Task Force. The AITF
includes active representation from the SEC. His recent work included
developing the ‘Best Practices Guide for the Valuation of Customer
Related Assets,’ and well as the “Distributor Method” of valuing
customer relationships – which was released in 2016 as industry
guidance by the Appraisal Foundation |  |