The Michel-Shaked Group’s Professor Israel Shaked and Luka Miladinovic, CFA, published an article titled “Comparable Companies: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It,” in the July 2025 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, discussing the continued applicability and proper execution of the Comparable Companies...
The Michel-Shaked Group’s Luka Miladinovic and Brad Orelowitz published an article in the November 2024 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal discussing common valuation mistakes related to the Discounted Cash Flow methodology. The authors describe how seemingly trivial mistakes made during valuation can lead...
The Michel-Shaked Group’s Israel Shaked and Paul Dionne published Part I of a two-part article in the September 2023 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal which discussed the changes, if any, in the field of corporate valuation as a result of the pandemic. ...
The Michel-Shaked Group’s Israel Shaked and Paul Dionne published Part I of a two-part article in the September 2023 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal which discussed the changes, if any, in the field of corporate valuation as a result of the pandemic. ...
The Michel-Shaked Group provided consulting and rebuttal expert testimony in the Diamond Sports Group (Diamond) bankruptcy proceeding. Diamond argued that the contract rates for local broadcasting rights between the Four MLB Teams and Diamond were unreasonable. Following a two-day bench trial in the...
The Michel-Shaked Group’s Israel Shaked, and Brad Orelowitz published an article in the February 2022 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal discussing beta, the measure of a company’s systematic risk, and its application to valuation. The article describes how to calculate beta and situations...
Retained by the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, The Michel-Shaked Group led by Israel Shaked and Stephen Kempainen, provided consulting and expert testimony regarding the valuation of Chesapeake Energy Corporation upon the company’s expected emergence from bankruptcy. The case was tried...
The importance of the discount rate, and the sensitivity of valuation conclusions to even small changes in the discount rate, requires increased scrutiny of discount rate assumptions by all parties to the dispute. In normal times, it is important for a valuation professional to bring...
In a bankruptcy, financial projections play a significant role in many different aspects of the process. In many cases, the Court’s preference is to rely on management’s projections, as management usually has vast experience within the company. However, there are instances where projections produced...
The Michel-Shaked Group, led by Stephen Kempainen, together with affiliated expert Valerie Davisson, provided consulting and expert testimony regarding disclosures made by solar panel manufacturer First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR). After years of litigation and shortly before the trial was to commence, First Solar...