Don has over 44 years of experience performing valuations in the financial services industry including banking, asset management, investment banking, securities brokerage, insurance, reinsurance, and insurance brokerage sectors. Mr. Jacobs is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) of the CFA Institute, an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) of the American Society of Appraisers, a Chartered Surveyor and Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), Certified in Entity and Intangible Valuation (CEIV), and a past member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.Don has lectured on business valuation and related topics at corporate seminars, law firms, valuation conferences, and NYU's continuing education program for CFA candidates. Don has authored articles on business valuation and was a contributing author to the textbook: "Financial Valuation: Businesses and Business Interests", Maxwell MacMillan/Rosenfield Launer (New York 1990).Specialties: Mr. Jacobs has performed and supervised thousands of valuations of businesses, business interests, intangible assets and financial instruments for financial reporting (purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment testing, fair value measurements), tax planning and reporting (corporate restructuring, purchase price allocation, cancellation of indebtedness, estate and gift, and other tax related valuation matters), regulatory, litigation support, and other purposes.