David Bart

About David Bart

David Bart has 30 years of experience assisting businesses and their counsel in complex matters ranging from investigations and general consulting to commercial litigation. Assignments include business and strategic analysis, forensic investigation, operational assessments, restructuring, bankruptcy, workouts and commercial damages. His expertise includes strategic planning, feasibility analysis, financial and economic analysis, investigative accounting, statistical analysis, and business valuation involving both public and private, profit and non-profit, entities. His services have resulted in business and financial restructuring, development of business and strategic plans, successful negotiation of credit support with as well as successful litigation outcomes. He has provided financial and litigation consulting services, valuation services and testimony in cases involving commercial damages, solvency analysis, fraudulent transfers, business valuation, forensic accounting and financial investigations. His engagements include matters in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. District Court and State Court as well as arbitration and mediation proceedings. David is Chairman of the ABI Litigation Trust Task Force and the primary author of the Practitioner’s Guide to Liquidation and Litigation Trusts. He also served on the advisory group and was a co-author of the Open Compliance & Ethics Group’s Practice Aid Internal Audit Guide: Evaluating a Compliance and Ethics Program. David is on the Board of Directors of the AIRA where he is Chairman of the Technical Issues and Standards Committee, and was the primary author of the AIRA’s Standards for Distressed Business Valuation. He serves on conference planning committees for both the ABI and AIRA. David has published numerous articles and presentations and teaches seminars in his fields of expertise.

Experience

1. National Director, Restructuring and Complex Litigation

   Baker Tilly US

   Oct 2021 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• The University of Chicago

  Bachelor of Arts - BA