Senior Vice President, Business Valuation - Valuation Advisory

At Stout we’re dedicated to exceeding expectations in all we do – we call it Relentless Excellence. Both our client service and culture are second to none, stemming from our firmwide embrace of our core values:
Positive and Team-Oriented, Accountable, Committed, Relationship‑Focused, Super‑Responsive, and being Great communicators. Sound like a place you can grow and succeed? Read on to learn more about an exciting opportunity to join our team.

Stout’s Valuation Advisory professionals help clients gain confidence by bringing clarity to complex financial and valuation matters. As part of our Business Valuation and Litigation Support Group, you will play a leadership role in delivering sophisticated financial analyses and valuation opinions across a broad range of industries and complex disputes.

This includes commercial litigation, transaction‑related matters, and family law and marital dissolution engagements, where Stout operates one of the largest and most experienced practices in the country.

As a senior vice president, you will lead complex valuation and litigation support engagements, serve as a trusted advisor to clients and legal counsel, and provide technical direction to engagement teams. You will oversee sophisticated financial analyses, develop defensible valuation conclusions, and contribute to expert reports and testimony preparation for matters involving mediation, arbitration, and trial. This role offers the opportunity to take significant ownership of client relationships, engagement execution, and team development while working on high‑stakes financial disputes, including commercial litigation and marital dissolution matters involving closely held businesses, high‑net‑worth individuals, and complex financial structures.

You will also contribute to the continued growth of the practice through relationship development, business development activities, and collaboration with senior leadership.

• Lead and manage complex business valuation and litigation support engagements, overseeing technical analyses, engagement strategy, deliverables, budgets, and timelines.
• Direct the valuation of businesses and entities using accepted methodologies, including discounted cash flow analyses, capitalization of earnings, and market‑based approaches involving comparable companies and transactions.
• Oversee analyses related to merger and acquisition transactions, purchase price allocations, stock option valuations, and complex financial instruments, including carried interest, deferred compensation, and other assets relevant to marital dissolution matters.
• Lead valuation assignments involving closely held businesses, partnerships, and professional practices, including the evaluation of personal versus enterprise goodwill.
• Direct sophisticated income analyses, financial tracing, and separate versus marital/community property tracing assignments in litigation contexts.
• Oversee forensic accounting analyses involving cash flow and lifestyle, unreported income, hidden assets, asset dissipation, fraudulent transfers, and other complex financial matters.
• Review and develop comprehensive valuation reports, expert analyses, and supporting documentation for use in settlement negotiations, mediation, arbitration, depositions, and trial proceedings.
• Work directly with clients, attorneys, and other advisors to evaluate financial issues, develop analytical approaches, communicate findings, and support dispute resolution strategies.
• Support expert witness engagements through the development and review of analyses, preparation of exhibits, and coordination with testifying experts.
• Provide deposition or trial testimony when appropriately qualified and…