Neil Beaton is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Seattle. He specializes in the valuation of public and privately held businesses and intangible assets for purposes of litigation support (lost profits claims, marriage dissolutions and others), acquisitions, sales, buy-sell agreements, ESOPs, incentive stock options and estate planning and taxation. He also performs economic analysis for personal injury claims, wrongful termination and wrongful death actions.

Adam Benson is a Managing Director and U.S. leader of Alvarez & Marsal’s Global Transaction Tax practice in New York.

Matt Bialecki is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Chicago and leads the Eastern U.S. Region of the practice. He is also a member of A&M’s Executive Committee. He has nearly 25 years of experience as an expert witness, arbitrator and consultant in a variety of areas including litigation and fraud and forensic investigations.

Holden Bixler is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring & Turnaround in Chicago. A member of the Case Management Service Group, he specializes in bankruptcy case administration, including the management and reconciliation of claims.

Ken Brewer is Senior Advisor in Alvarez & Marsal’s Tax practice. He brings over 40 years of professional experience largely comprised of assisting clients in structuring multi-national business transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, capital formation, financing, joint venture formation, and transfer pricing.

Christian Büchelhofer is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Munich. With nearly 15 years of valuation experience, he is an expert in leading interdisciplinary valuation projects.

Johannes Burgheim is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Performance Improvement in Frankfurt.

Santiago Chacón is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Mexico City. He brings more than 20 years of experience across a multitude of international tax matters. He specializes in advising foreign and Mexican entities, specifically in tax planning in foreign investments, transactions / mergers and acquisitions (buy and sell side due diligence, and sale and purchase structures), and tax controversy (tax audits performed by Mexican tax authorities looking to reach an agreement to avoid courts).

Ken Cinzio is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Chicago. He brings more than 30 years of global experience in manufacturing, supply chain, engineering and quality.

Brian Cumberland is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Dallas. He leads the firm's Restructuring Compensation practice.

Matthew De Felice is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Morristown. He specializes in transfer pricing advisory services.

Elizabeth Dean is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in San Francisco. She specializes in forensic accounting, business consulting, and valuation services.

James A. Deets is a Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Dallas. He specializes in executive compensation, employee benefits and qualified retirement plans and has served as a consulting expert on employee benefits issues within the context of bankruptcy proceedings.

Jan Diederichsen is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement in London. He brings more than 20 years of transformation, digital/IT and transaction experience in the consumer-packaged goods, pharma and medical device industries.

Kert Dudek is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Dallas. With more than 23 years of IT experience, he specializes in global IT operations and security.

Kathleen Elliott is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Dallas.

Michael Farkas is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in New York. His primary areas of concentration include tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, with a focus on private equity and corporate infrastructure acquisitions.

Steven Fischoff is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Chicago. He specializes in the valuation of businesses and business interests, including equity interests, liabilities and debt, options and derivatives, intellectual property and other tangible and intangible assets.

Carlos Garrido is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Madrid. He brings nearly 20 years of experience in operations (manufacturing, supply chain and procurement), management and strategy, leading teams in more than 10 countries.

Luis Gómezchico is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement in México City. He brings more than 24 years of experience in the consulting industry, focusing on process and technology transformations.

Andrea Gonzalez is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring & Turnaround in Chicago. She works with the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee Advisory group.  

Jon Goulding is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring & Turnaround in Los Angeles. As Co-Head of the Western Region, he brings more than 25 years of management consulting, financial restructuring and interim management experience and specializes in advising debtor and creditor clients, both in court and outside of bankruptcy.

Josefine Haensel is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Transformation Services in Hamburg. She brings more than 25 years of experience in business transformation, efficiency improvement, restructuring and revenue growth from both senior management and consulting roles.

Michael Halliwell is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services in Atlanta, focusing on management advisory services related to mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, business enterprise and intangible asset valuations, and strategic management consulting.