Laura S. Leopardi, CPA/ABV, MBA has 20+ years experience, including a Big 4 CPA Firm, Fortune 25 company, and an investment bank. Ms. Leopardi's professional practice offers business valuation, litigation support, forensic accounting, and general business consulting services to privately-held business owners and their professional advisors. Ms. Leopardi has been admitted as an Expert Witness and testified in Federal Bankruptcy and Civil Court as well as Maricopa County Superior Court of the State of Arizona Civil and Family Courts. She is routinely Court Appointed as a Federally Authorized Tax Practitioner and Special Master in business valuation and forensic accounting case matters. Laura values businesses in connection with mergers and acquisitions, strategic and succession planning, owner exit strategies, shareholder transactions, estate, probate, and gifting, divorce, buy/sell agreements, Employee Stock Option and Ownership Plans, and Family Limited Partnerships. Ms. Leopardi also values intangible assets, including goodwill, trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade names, and domain names. She performs damage calculations in the areas of lost profits, lost wages, business interruption costs,
breach of contract, and unjust enrichment.