I (David wirth) brings over 25 years of working across the entire commodity and energy value chain.I have 25 years of experience working across the entire energy value chain. I have draws on a rare combination of industry, Wall Street, consulting, and government experience to provide my clients with transaction, commercial analytics, litigation, and valuation opinion services. I am a nationally recognized energy industry expert and had appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, NTD, and Bloomberg TV. As an advisor, and in my corporate career, I have delivered more than $56 billion in energy-related transactions, valuation, restructuring, and litigation projects. I have also advised on, or executed, $14 billion in M&A and principal investment deals, and executed or valued more than $15 billion notional in derivative instruments. My expert litigation work has included shareholder disputes, business valuation, M&A, derivatives and hedging, and damages assessments. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Center for ESG and Sustainability.I studied military and diplomatic history at Yale, where I was a varsity football letterman as a walk-on. Following graduation, I went to work on Wall Street with Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. (“BBH”), the nation’s oldest private bank. I was a Federal funds and Eurodollar trader and also worked in the bank’s international treasury department. During my time with BBH i was selected for training in the elite US Foreign Service and was commissioned a Foreign Service Officer in November 1990. Volunteering for critical threat postings, i served tours of duty in Southeast Asia and in Russia. I was also a Staff Officer at headquarters in Washington DC, where I worked on energy security and trade issues. I left the Foreign Service to pursue My MBA at Northwestern University, where I studied Analytical Finance and Accounting. More specifically, I am an expert in treasury operations, corporate finance, deal execution, post-merger integration, and value harvesting.
