Berkeley Research Group, LLC
Berkeley Research Group Adds Alternative Investment Industry Professional Michael Athanason as Managing Director

DGAP-News: Berkeley Research Group, LLC / Key word(s): Miscellaneous

2015-12-15 / 20:29
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

EMERYVILLE, CA --(Marketwired - December 15, 2015) -  Leading
global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm Berkeley
Research Group announced today that Michael Athanason has joined
the firm as a managing director.

Athanason joins the BRG Capstone* group in New York. He will lead
the Private Funds Group Valuation Team and will assist in
building the firm's already substantial position in alternative
investment valuation services. He brings over 25 years of
valuation and corporate finance advisory experience and has been
an industry leader in the valuation of alternative investment
portfolios for the past 10 years.

He joins BRG from KPMG, where he was the US national leader of
the Alternative Investments Valuation practice, and he was
previously the global leader of Duff & Phelps' Alternative
Investment Valuation Services business.

Athanason specializes in advising on valuation and value
management of alternative asset portfolios and has helped clients
plan and execute major acquisition, restructuring,
recapitalization and financial reporting projects. His
substantial experience in advising large pension funds, hedge
funds and private equity clients on corporate and alternative
investment portfolio valuations, fairness opinions and solvency
opinions will be further enhanced by BRG's bench of more than 890
employees.

About Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Berkeley Research Group, LLC (www.thinkbrg.com) is a leading
global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm that
provides independent advice, data analytics, authoritative
studies, expert testimony, investigations, transaction advisory,
restructuring services, regulatory and dispute consulting to
Fortune 500 corporations, private equity and hedge funds, pension
funds, financial institutions, major law firms and regulatory
bodies around the world. BRG experts and consultants combine
intellectual rigor with practical, real-world experience and an
in-depth understanding of industries and markets. Their expertise
spans economics and finance, data analytics and statistics, and
public policy in many of the major sectors of our economy,
including healthcare, banking, information technology, energy,
construction and real estate. BRG is headquartered in Emeryville,
California, with offices across the United States and in Asia,
Australia, Canada, Latin America and the United Kingdom.

*BRG Capstone is a trade name of Berkeley Research Group, LLC and
certain of its affiliates.



Contact:
Robin Brassner
rbrassner@thinkbrg.com
212.721.8060

News Source: Marketwire


---------------------------------------------------------------------------

2015-12-15 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a
service of EQS Group AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements,
Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.
Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de

---------------------------------------------------------------------------


     Language:    English                       
     Company:     Berkeley Research Group, LLC  
   
   
                  United States                 
   
   
     End of News    DGAP News Service