Prof. Israel Shaked

Dr. Israel Shaked is a founder and managing director of The Michel-Shaked Group in Boston, where he pro- vides consulting, valuation, investment, and investment banking services to law firms and companies worldwide on a wide range of issues. He has also acted as a consultant to numerous government agencies, including the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Department of Labor (DOL), Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dr. Shaked has delivered hundreds of seminars to senior corporate executives and law firms in North and South America, Europe and Asia, and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee on the subjects of leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and taxation. He has been engaged as an expert witness, and has offered testimony at depositions, arbitrations and trials on numerous occasions. Dr. Shaked is a professor of finance and economics at Boston University Questrom School of Business. For almost 40 years, he has taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on various topics, including business valuation, corporate finance and financial economics, and he is a two-time winner of Boston University’s Broderick Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Shaked was the director of the Boston Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Examination Review Program for 19 years, and was the co-founder and director of the Institute of Chartered Pension Professionals (ICPP). He is a former ABI Board member and is a contributor to the ABI Journal. Prof. Shaked has authored several books and numerous articles, and he appears frequently on television and in the press commenting on contemporary financial and business issues. His academic and professional re- search covers such areas as investment analysts, valuation, financial distress, solvency, preferences, fraudulent conveyance, bankruptcy, LBOs, international business, mergers and acquisitions, economics, corporate structure analysis, corporate financial decisions and capital markets. Dr. Shaked has also authored or co-authored numerous articles and several books, including A Practical Guide to Bankruptcy Valuation, Second Edition (ABI 2016). He has delivered hundreds of seminars to corporate executives and law firms globally, and has been engaged as an expert witness offering testimony at depositions, arbitrations and trials on numerous cases. He is renowned and relied on for his expertise in valuation matters, and his ability to explain the complexities of valuation clearly to a judge, jury, arbitrator or regulatory authority. Dr. Shaked received his B.A. in economics and his B.A. in statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, his M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) from Harvard Business School.