Executive Summary
Paul is a Partner in BDO’s Toronto office, with over 20 years of professional experience providing Financial Advisory Services to CFOs and other senior financial executives and management. Paul specializes in fairness opinions, business valuations and modeling, advising on financing and capital structure issues, deal pricing for M&A or divestitures and employee share ownership plans. Paul has prepared valuations for board governance, business planning, shareholder transactions, litigation support, tax compliance and financial reporting.
Paul services clients in a wide range of industries and for sophisticated investors, financial institutions, pensions & benefit plans, asset and portfolio managers, infrastructure, public private partnerships (PPP), private equity, technology & life sciences, media, telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, leasing and automotive parts and venture capital.
Paul is also a Member of the BDO Financial Advisory Services Board of Directors.
Paul’s industry experience includes leading the finance, valuations and strategy & planning functions at Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) for 5 years where he worked directly with private markets deal teams, risk teams and boards on activities that affected pricing, financing and other decision making for small to large-scale private equity and infrastructure investments.
Paul has international experience working with multi-disciplinary service teams for public and private companies in Canada, US, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
Paul is also the Past Chair and Board Member of the CBV Institute.