Purchase Price Disputes - Managing Director

Opportunity

Location:

Denver, Colorado

This position will support our Restructuring & Dispute Resolution group. This group provides a wide suite of services to clients, giving you the opportunity to learn, grow, and build out your skills. As a member of this team, you’ll interact with team members across all levels within the practice.

We are seeking a senior leader to build and lead our Purchase Price Disputes practice, focused on advising clients in post-closing purchase price adjustment disputes and serving as an independent neutral accountant in connection with M&A-related disputes.

This role will lead engagements involving working capital adjustments, indebtedness disputes, cash and transaction expense disputes, earn-outs, GAAP and accounting policy interpretation issues, and other matters arising from purchase agreements and related transaction documents.

The ideal candidate combines deep transaction accounting expertise with strong dispute resolution judgment, commercial awareness, and the ability to act as an independent and credible decision‑maker in contentious matters.

• Build and lead the firm’s Purchase Price Disputes and Independent Expert practice.
• Develop relationships with private equity firms, strategic acquirers, law firms, investment banks, and transaction advisory professionals.
• Identify and originate new engagements involving post‑closing disputes, purchase price adjustment mechanisms, and accounting‑related transaction disputes.
• Collaborate with Transaction Advisory, FDD, valuation, restructuring, and litigation support teams across the firm.
• Develop practice methodologies, templates, and thought leadership related to purchase price adjustment disputes and dispute resolution mechanisms.

• Advise buyers and sellers in disputes relating to purchase price adjustments and related transaction documents.
• Analyze SPAs and related transaction documents to assess accounting and dispute implications.
• Prepare expert‑style analyses, position papers, rebuttal reports, and settlement support materials.
• Lead negotiations and accounting discussions between counter parties and counsel.

• Serve as an independent accountant or neutral expert pursuant to dispute resolution provisions in purchase agreements.
• Evaluate submissions from both parties and issue independent determinations on disputed accounting and purchase price adjustment matters.
• Maintain strict independence, objectivity, and procedural fairness in all neutral engagements.
• Manage dispute processes, hearing procedures, timelines, and written determinations.
• Assess disputed items within the scope of the SPA and applicable accounting framework.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop professionals within the disputes and transaction accounting practice.
• Provide technical oversight and quality review of engagement deliverables.
• Support training initiatives related to purchase agreements, accounting principles, and dispute resolution methodologies.

• 10+ years of experience in transaction advisory, transaction accounting, disputes, audit, or related financial consulting.
• Significant experience analyzing purchase agreements and post‑closing adjustment mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience resolving disputes relating to working capital, debt, cash, transaction expenses, earn‑outs, and accounting policy application.
• Experience serving as an independent accountant, neutral expert, arbitrator support, or expert witness is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and transaction accounting concepts.
• Existing relationships within the private equity, legal, and M&A community preferred.
• Ability to interpret complex contractual accounting provisions and dispute resolution clauses.
• Strong written communication and report drafting skills.
• CPA strongly preferred.
• CFA, ABV, CFF, or other dispute/accounting credentials a plus.
• Deep understanding of:
  • Purchase price adjustment mechanisms
  • Locked box and closing accounts structures
  • GAAP and consistency of application
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Accounting policy…