Michael Badea

Michael D. Badea has extensive experience providing a broad range of business valuation and financial advisory services to public and private sector clients, with a primary focus within the firm’s Trust and Estate Valuation practice. His experience covers a broad range of industries for a variety of purposes, including estate and gift taxation, income tax requirements, shareholder and succession planning, buy-sell agreement consulting, shareholder disputes, and other tax, corporate, and litigation-related matters.

Michael specializes in fair market value engagements involving closely held business interests, FLP/FLLC valuation discount analyses, restricted stock and blockage discount opinions, preferred stock valuations, promissory note valuations, and the valuation of private equity and hedge fund interests. Michael also has experience with providing fairness opinions as well as financial reporting valuation assignments (e.g., purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment testing).

His experience spans a diverse client base comprised of privately held entities representing multi-billion-dollar enterprises, middle-market corporations, private equity and hedge funds, law firms, accounting firms, and financial institutions.

In addition to his client responsibilities, Michael is co-chair of Stout’s internal Products and Process Committee, which promotes consistency, accuracy, and modernization of Stout’s proprietary models and client deliverables.