Based in CBIZ's Atlanta office, Faisal heads the regional valuation practice for the company. With over ten years of experience in consulting and valuation, his expertise centers on appraising public and privately held enterprises, business interests, intangible assets, intellectual property, and related matters for purposes such as financial statement reporting, corporate planning, tax strategies, litigation support, and more.
Faisal has been primarily focused on providing independent valuation opinions, intangible asset purchase price allocation, goodwill and long-lived asset impairment testing analyses, fairness opinions, portfolio company valuations, and other valuation services. In addition, Faisal has extensive experience in the valuation of privately held equity securities in complex financial structures, convertible debt, performance and market-based equity awards, warrants with price protection features, embedded derivatives, and contingent consideration.
With his broad experience, Faisal leads a team of valuation specialists, who work with clients including investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and corporate entities spanning various industries such as technology companies specializing in information services, ecommerce, social media, and cloud/SaaS, as well as healthcare, pharma, manufacturing, consumer product retail, entertainment, and more.
Faisal is also an active contributor to thought leadership in the valuation profession. He participates regularly at industry conferences and authors valuation resources and insights.
Prior to joining CBIZ, Faisal held the position of Director at KNAV, where he directed the North America valuation practice and played a pivotal role in developing the complex securities valuation practice.