Taylor West

Profile

Taylor is the Senior Managing Director for the national practice of CBIZ Valuation Group and is based in the Houston, Texas office. He is responsible for leading the national practice and various aspects of client service and business development.

He specializes in the valuation of corporate debt, equity and derivative securities, partnership interests, and intangible assets of privately held and publicly traded businesses. Taylor’s valuation projects serve a variety of purposes, including mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, tax reporting, litigation, bankruptcy, portfolio valuation, and corporate planning.

Taylor serves domestic and global clients in numerous industries, including energy, healthcare, technology, real estate, hospitality, consumer and industrial products, telecommunications, and financial services, among others. He has advised corporate valuation clients on more than $50 billion of M&A transactions in the past decade. His work has been reviewed by the Internal Revenue Service and all of the major accounting firms.

Additionally, Taylor has been a regular public speaker on the topic of valuation and was appointed to the Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ Client Advisory Board. He was also recognized as one of Houston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 honorees.

Taylor began his career as a financial analyst at an energy corporation and then joined the advisory practice at a major global accounting firm in 2000. Since then, he has held leadership positions at global accounting and consulting firms, including being appointed the National Oil and Gas Practice Leader at the world’s largest independent valuation firm.

Professional Affiliations

• National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts
• American Society of Appraisers