ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Israel Shaked is a founder and managing director of The Michel-Shaked Group in Boston and a professor of finance and economics at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. He has taught courses at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels on various topics for 39 years, including business valuation, corporate finance and financial economics, and he is an unprecedented two-time winner of Boston University's Broderick Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Shaked has authored several books and numerous articles, and appears regularly on television and in the press commenting on contemporary financial and business issues. His areas of academic and professional research include valuation, financial distress, solvency, preferences, fraudulent conveyance, bankruptcy, LBOs, international business, mergers and acquisitions, economics, corporate structure analysis, corporate financial decisions, investment analysts and capital markets. Dr. Shaked has provided consulting, valuation, investment and investment banking services to law firms and companies worldwide on a wide range of issues. He has also acted as a consultant to numerous government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Department of Labor (DOL), the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dr. Shaked testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee on leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and taxation. He has also been engaged as an expert witness and has offered testimony at depositions, arbitrations and trials on numerous occasions. Dr. Shaked received two B.A.s, in economics and statistics, and his M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also holds a Doctor of Business Administration from the...