Utilizing AI in Litigation Support, Transaction Advisory and Valuation Services

Matt is a senior manager at Kraft Analytics, LLC, with a specialization in fraud and forensic analysis, transaction advisory, litigation services, and business valuations. He serves clients across various industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, professional services, entertainment, transportation, software, life sciences, retail, construction, distribution, and real estate.

As a leader in the firm's AI adaptation efforts, Matt tests products and integrates AI into practice. He has also developed and delivered training on the use of AI within both the litigation services sector and the accounting profession generally.

Matt possesses extensive forensic experience, having conducted internal investigations into financial irregularities and provided forensic services for both civil and criminal cases. His expertise encompasses handling Ponzi schemes, financial statement manipulation, check kiting, asset misappropriation, infringement claims, fraudulent disbursements, and wire fraud.

In the realm of valuation services, Matt has performed business valuations, assessed equity interests, debt instruments, intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights), non-compete agreements, management agreements, and customer contracts. He is skilled in modeling complex equity structures, conducting waterfall analysis, and utilizing Monte Carlo simulations.

Matt's transaction advisory experience includes valuations, fairness opinions, purchase price allocations, due diligence (buy-side and sell-side), and transaction structuring for acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, divestitures, equity investments, lending transactions, and generational transfers. Additionally, he provides management consulting during acquisition phases, conducts industry and competitive analyses, identifies business strategies, performs compensation studies, and develops capital project analyses.

Prior to joining Kraft Analytics, Matt practiced law in Tennessee, providing services extensively in mergers and acquisitions, tax, contracts, and commercial litigation.