9 December 2024 I 5:00 pm (CET)

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Topic: How to Handle Uncomfortable Situations 

Speaker: Michael A. Gregory

Mike is a mediation and negotiation specialist. He has the knowledge, experience, and relationships to help you with IRS and other disputes.

After 28 years at the IRS, Mike founded Michael Gregory Consulting, LLC, in September 2011. This firm focuses on risk management issues with the Internal Revenue Service, alternative dispute resolution, emphasizing mediation, and value-added services. Over his last eleven years at the IRS, he was an IRS territory manager responsible for 23 states, with an emphasis on the national business valuation arena. Mike brought mediation and mediation training to the IRS Large Business and International division and has facilitated dispute mediation design.

Mike has conducted over 2,500 mediations, facilitations, and negotiations over his career. Mike has mediated issues up to $1 billion with Fortune 100 companies to more minor business issues in the millions of dollars. He has saved clients hundreds of millions of dollars. Mike has also mediated and led efforts to develop labor management and Equal Employment and Opportunity dispute management system design. Using neuroscience and experience, Mike mediates or assists teams with negotiations between business and government, business to business, within businesses, and boards of directors. He also mediates business valuation and business issues in divorce.

Michael Gregory is an Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and a Certified Valuation Analyst with the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA). He has also served on the Business Valuation Committee of the American Society of Appraisers and the Valuation Credentialing Board and is the chair of the Ethics and Oversight Board of NACVA. Mike is a reviewer for the Trust and Estates Journal Valuation Committee.

Mike is a Minnesota State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section board member and a Qualified Mediator with the Minnesota Supreme Court. Mike has a BS from Valparaiso University, an MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and an MBA from DePaul University.

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2025 Schedule:

• 20 January 2025
• 17 February 2025
• 24 March 2025
• 28 April 2025
• 12 May 2025
• 16 June 2025
• 28 July 2025
• 25 August 2025
• 22 September 2025
• 27 October 2025
• 24 November 2025
• 8 December 2025

Previous Webcasts:

• 25 November 2024: Global Economic Update following the US election, Carla S. Nunes, CFA and James P. Harrington, Kroll
• 21 October 2024: Working with tangible asset appraisers, Alexander F. Ruden, ASA and James F. Reinhardt, CVA, RFC 
• 30 September 2024: The Pricing of Earnouts—How to Bridge Valuation Differences, Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler, CVA, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

• 26. August 2024: Valuation Trends in Private Capital Markets: Focus on Venture Debt, Speaker: Antonella Puca, CPA ABV, CFA, BlueVal

• 22 July 2024: Introduction and applications of Monte Carlo simulation in valuation, Speaker: Dharah Shah, CVA, Knowcraft Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
• 24 June 2024: Economic Update, Speaker: Simon Rubinsohn, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• 13 May 2024: Blockage and DLOM in a Margrabe Exchange Option Framework, Speaker: Dr. Ashok Abbott, MBA, PhD, Business Valuation LLC
• 22 April 2024: Fair Value: Accounting’s Perspective on Valuation, Speaker: James Walling, CFA, CVA, Accretive Strategies Consulting Group LLC
• 25 March 2024: Mind the GAAP: Is the Increased Use of Non-GAAP Metrics Helpful or Misleading for Valuation? Speaker: Deborah Taylor, CV, Financial Edge Training, London
• 19 February 2024: Business Valuation Based on Company Law Regulations in Germany and Austria -Insights Into and Outlook on the “Objectified Business Value”. Speaker: Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Kniest, CVA, EACVA
• 29 January 2024: Where Skill Meets Opportunity: Development of Long-Term Engagements!
  Speaker: Mark G. Kucik, CPA/CFF, CVA, CM&AA, CPVA, The Kucik Valuation Group
• 11 December 2023: Value of Security Issued by Privately Held Companies with Complex Capital Structure; Speaker: Upasak B. Shah, Knowcraft Analytics Pvt. Ltd., India
• 20 November 2023: Do you really know your cost of capital? Speaker: Prof. Peter Nyberg, D.Sc. (Econ.), Aalto University School of Business, Finland 
• 23 October 2023: Private Company M&A Valuation: Financial Reporting; Speaker: Stephen A. White, CVA Expert Valuation Analyst at Onyx Partners Group, New York 
• 25 September 2023: How Free is the Riskfree Rate; Speaker: Dr. Bennet Kpentey, DBA, CPC, CVA, Sync Consult, AACVA
• 28 August 2023: Behavioral Valuation: The Valuation Mindset—the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making; Speaker: Dr. Marc Broekema, Kroll
• 24 July 2023: Valuation Considerations for Biotech Companies; Speaker: Dharah Shah, CVA, Knowcraft Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
• 26 June 2023: Principles, Tasks, and Tools for Successful Professionals Speaker: WP StB Andreas Creutzmann, CVA, IVA VALUATION & ADVISORY
• 22 May 2023: Working Capital Analysis and Projection Challenges & Inconsistencies Speaker: Brady T. Finney, Atlantic Management Company, Inc.
• 24 April 2023: Liquidity and Marketability Discounts in a Margrabe Exchange Option Framework Speaker: Dr. Ashok Abbott, MBA, PhD, Business Valuation LLC
• 27 March 2023: Improving the Selection of CAPM Betas – A New Tool Coming Soon (Part II) Speakers: Carla S. Nunes, CFA and Kevin Madden, Kroll
• 20 February 2023: Buying Performance? The Impact of Multiple Arbitrage in Buy-and-Build Strategies of Private Equity Firms; Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler, CVA, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• 30 January 2023: Global Economic Conditions Impacting Business Valuation and Appraisal; Speaker: Simon Rubinsohn, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• 19 December 2022: Business Valuation Déjà Vu’s; Speaker: Z. Christopher Mercer, FASA, CFA, ABAR, Mercer Capital
• 28 November 2022: Kroll Cost of Capital New Beta Module; Speaker: Carla Nunes, CFA, Kroll
• 24 October 2022: Business Valuations in the Wine Industry; Speaker: Joseph Orlando, ASA, Exit Strategies Group
• 26 September 2022: Early Stage Valuation; Speaker: Antonella Puca, CFA, CPA/ABV, MPI Business Valuation & Advisory
• 25 July 2022: Simulation based valuation: Theory and Practice; Speakers: Prof. Dr. Werner Gleißner, FutureValue Group and University of Dresden / Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Ernst, International School of Finance (ISF) Nürtingen-Geislingen University and European Institute of Quantitative Finance (EIQF)
• 27 June 2022 – Contingent Consideration / Earnout Valuations; Speaker: James B Walling, CFA, CVA, Accretive Strategies Consulting Group, Gilroy US
• 23 May 2022 – Business Valuation in the Czech Republic; Speaker: Ing. Barbora Rýdlová, PhD, Prague University of Economics and Business
• 25 April 2022 – Calculating Marketability Discounts; Speaker: Andrew Strickland, Consultant at Scrutton Bland, Director at International Institute of Business Valuers (iiBV), UK
• 28 March 2022 – Valuation – from a UK Perspective; Speaker: David Bowes, DIP LAW, FTII, FRICS, MEWI, SSBV, Share and Business Valuation Specialist
• 21 February 2022 – Cost Approach to Intellectual Property Valuation; Speaker: Robert F. Reilly, CPA, ASA, ABV, CVA, CFF, CMA, Willamette Management Associates
• 31 January 2022  – The Real Property Appraisal Worldview: An Eye-Opening Guide for Business Valuers; Speaker: Dennis A. Webb, ASA, MAI, FRICS, business and real estate appraiser
• 20 December 2021 – Discussion on Global Professional Standards with GACVA Leaders:
  Andreas Creutzmann, WP/StB, Dipl.-Kfm., CVA / Mark Kucik, CPA, CVA, CM&AA, CFF, CPVA / C. Zachary Meyers, CPA, CVA / Andrew Neuman, CPA, CA, CFE, CA.IFA, CFF, CVA, B.com / Pratik Shah, MSc
• 29 November 2021 – Misuse of Bid Premium Data to Determine Minority Discounts; Speaker: Morris Kaplan, Director at Logicca Valuation Services Pty Ltd.
• 25 October 2021 – APT versus CAPM: An analysis with implications for international cost of capital estimation and privately-traded capital asset valuation; Speaker: Malcolm McClelland, PhD, McLelland + Palazzi Financial Economics
• 27 September 2021 – Terminal Value: Fade factors and growth assumptions; Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler, CVA, Chair Financial Management, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• 12 July 2021 – Today’s Fraud Risk Models Lack Personality; Speaker: Dr. Sri Ramamoorti, ACA, CPA, CFE, CFF, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CGFM, CRP, FCPA, MAFF, Associate Professor of Accountancy at University of Dayton
• 28 June 2021 – The Future of the Business Valuation Profession − Professional Associations, Business Valuation Standards, and Business Valuation Theory; Speaker: Z. Christopher Mercer, FASA, CFA, ABAR, Mercer Capital
• 24 May 2021 – Construction Impacts During COVID-19 Times; Speaker: Alina Rivera, CPA, CVA, CFE, MAFF, CIRA, CGMA, MBA, CEO and Partner at On Point Strategy
• 26 April 2021 – Multiple Adjustments: Theory vs Practice – How can we discern the adequate level of the multiple we should use in the valuation of an unlisted company?; Speaker: Anamaria Ciobanu, Senior Manager, Deal Advisory, Valuations, KPMG Romania / Professor of Finance at ASE ASE BUCURESTI, Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange
• 29 March 2021 – Accounting and Business Valuation – How Accounting Information Impacts Business Valuation in Practice; Speaker: Prof. Dr. Matthias Meitner, CFA, Managing Partner VALUESQUE
• 22 February 2021 – Economic Outlook in a Post COVID World – Incorporating Real GDP Growth and Inflation Expectations in Valuations; Speaker: Carla Nunes, Managing Director, Global Leader – Valuation Digital Solutions | Duff & Phelps/Kroll
• 25 January 2021 – Valuation, Common Sense, and Common Errors and Normalized Risk-Free rates
  Speaker: Pablo Fernández, Professor of Financial Management, PwC Chair of Corporate Finance | IESE Business School, University of Navarra

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