Mr. Kenneth J. Malek

Kenneth J. Malek, CRA, CIRA, CDBV, CFF, CGMA, CTP, CPA is the president of Malek Capital Advisors in Libertyville, Ill., a consulting firm near metropolitan Chicago. He has more than 40 years of experience assisting companies with transactions, corporate strategy, fairness opinions, disputes and complex financial and operational restructurings, including mergers and acquisitions, valuation, debt-rationalization, turnaround and expert testimony. Mr. Malek has been engaged as an advisor in a number of industries, encompassing airlines/travel and leisure, construction, extractive industries, financial services, manufacturing and distribution, power, real estate and retail. He has performed valuation and/or transaction advisory services for a number of well-known public and privately held companies, and he has been a transaction and valuation advisor in over $20 billion in completed transactions. He has also served a number of family and entrepreneur-owned businesses and is well versed in addressing the sometimes-special circumstances and value-drivers of these businesses and their owners. The matters on which Mr. Malek has provided valuation services comprise valuations of business enterprises, equity interests and intangible assets. In addition, he has served as a neutral valuation expert. Mr. Malek has been retained as an examiner and has testified as an expert in the U.S. District Courts of Delaware, Illinois and Texas, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts of Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan and Virginia, in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and in arbitration proceedings. He has been retained as an expert in complex commercial litigation cases in a number of state courts. The matters on which he has been engaged as an expert include valuation, business plans and business viability, economic damages and causation, avoidance actions and Ponzi Schemes, professional practice standards and accounting investigations. He has been retained as a testifying or consulting expert in over 60 cases. The out-of-court and chapter 11 cases in which Mr. Malek has played major roles include Allis Chalmers, Anvan Development, ATA Airlines, Bally Total Fitness, Delta Petroleum, Dornier Aviation (North America), Energy Future Holdings, Fansteel, Funding Systems Railcars, Global Crossing, Goss Graphic, InfoVest / CCC, Longview Aluminum, LTV Steel, Mercury Finance, Paul Harris Stores, Pick-Congress Hotel, St. Francis Health Systems, TXCO, USA Commercial Mortgage, Washington-St. Tammany Electric Cooperative, Westell, Wickes Furniture and Wildman. He has served as chair of the Board of Trustees and chair of the Audit Committee of Lake Forest Funds, a value-oriented mutual fund, through the date of merger with Profit Funds Group. Mr. Malek received his B.S.C. in accounting in 1976 and his M.S. in taxation in 1978 with distinction from DePaul University.