Bryan Fleming is a director in the advisory practice in the Firm’s Portland, Maine office. He is nationally and internationally accredited in accounting, financial reporting, forensic financial analysis, business valuation, valuation of intangible assets and intellectual property, and corporate finance and strategy. He has led over 1,300 valuations and/or analytical projects across virtually all industries, and has performed such services for businesses ranging in size from Main Street to publicly-traded companies. In addition to mainstream finance issues, he is frequently involved with startups, acquisitions, spinoffs, joint ventures and other complicated business relationships. Mr. Fleming’s valuation expertise also includes valuation of financial instruments such as notes, warrants, stock appreciation rights, etc. In unique instances, he has also valued industrial plants, machine lines, and fleets of income producing tangible assets using income based approaches. He is also skilled in the valuation of intangible assets, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, designs, technology platforms, software, computer code, and others. Mr. Fleming is one of fifty appraisers worldwide that hold the American Society of Appraisers specialty accreditation in intangible assets and intellectual property. He has valued unique intellectual property on many occasions, including FCC permits, undersea telephonic cables, international marine fisheries quotas, FAA certificates, pharmaceutical formularies, FDA drug approvals, international joint ventures, and others. Formerly employed by one of the world’s largest valuation firms, he has valued companies in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean Basin. Mr. Fleming has testified in both state and federal courts on several occasions, and has been afforded expert status by various courts in the areas of business valuation, corporate finance, intellectual property and complex commercial damages. He is a firm designated testifying expert.