Michael E. Deeba, CPA

Michael E. Deeba is a partner in the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Services practice of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP in Oklahoma City and has over 30 years of experience in bankruptcy, financial distress, accounting and tax-related matters. He has provided consultation and expert-witness services in the areas of restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency, valuation, fiduciary duties and governance issues, related-party transactions, fraudulent transfers, fraud investigations, forensic accounting and investigatory services, and commercial damages modeling. He has served in these capacities in bankruptcy, federal and state courts and as an arbitrator. Mr. Deeba has been retained as financial advisor to debtors-in-possession, trustees, secured creditors, committees and other parties-in-interest. His experience has also included structuring and feasibility of plans of reorganization, disclosure-statement issues, valuation of businesses and divisions, solvency analyses and studies, assessments of reasonably equivalent value, adequate capital concerns, and preference and fraudulent-transfer claim disputes. Mr. Deeba has provided interim-management turnaround services to companies in a wide range of industries, and he has been retained to provide valuation services and lost-profits calculations in disputes involving sales agreements, contracts, shareholder and partner agreements, leases, employment contracts, noncompete clauses, trade infringement and wrongful competition. He is a member of ABI, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors and the Turnaround Management Association. Mr. Deeba received his B.S. in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma.