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 suport, forensic accounting, and general business consulting services to privately-held business owners and their professional advisors. Ms. Leopardi has testified for Federal Bankruptcy and Civil cases and the Maricopa County Superior Court of the State of Arizona Civil and Family Courts. She is Court Appointed as a Federally Authorized Tax Practitioner and Special Master in business valuation and forensic accounting case matters and to determine Adjusted Gross Income Earnings in connection with the determination of concomitant child support obligations. She values businesses in connection with mergers and acquisitions, strategic and succession planning, estate, probate, and gifting, divorce, buy/sell agreements, Family Limited Partnerships, Employee Stock Option and Ownership Plans, and shareholder transactions. 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, wages, and earnings, business interruption costs, quantum meruit recovery, and unjust enrichment.