Ms. Taylor has led more 85 telecom restructuring and bankruptcy engagements, advising debtors and creditors on cases such as Global Crossing, XO Communications, Williams Communications, Excite@Home, Genuity, Qwest, MFN, Allegiance Telecom, Teligent, Broadwing, IWO, and Level(3) Communications. Her primary clients include financial institutions such as JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wachovia, Citigroup, GE Capital, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and TD Securities as well as company management teams.

In the mergers and acquisitions area, Ms. Taylor has served as financial advisor to various parties in transactions, including providing due diligence on behalf of financing sources and private equity investors, investigating financial synergies of merger transactions, preparing corporate strategies for acquisitions, identifying target companies, and advising on transaction structuring involving both healthy and financially distressed acquisition targets.

Ms. Taylor has provided expert witness testimony in litigations, arbitrations and other cases involving antitrust issues, lost revenue and profits and valuation. In addition, she has provided strategic consulting, corporate and business development, business planning, financial planning and marketing consulting services to a variety of telecom clients. Example clients for these services include AT&T Wireless Catellus Home Builders, Cincinnati Bell, Hughes Electronics, IDT, USWest, Ericsson, Alcatel, LA Cellular, Verio, LA Dept of Water & Power, Integra Telecom, Tycom and Altrio.

Ms. Taylor was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers until it sold the U.S. division of the Business Recovery Services group to FTI in 2002. She was the youngest person to ever become a partner in the predecessor firm of Price Waterhouse. Ms. Taylor was also a part-time professor at the University of Southern California School of Accounting for three years while at Price Waterhouse. In addition, Ms. Taylor has published articles on the telecom industry in both industry and restructuring journals, and she is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Ms. Taylor holds an M.A. and a B.S. in economics from the University of Southern California, where she graduated as the university’s valedictorian. She received the Elijah Watts Sells award for her high score nationally on the CPA exam. She holds a CPA license in California and Colorado, is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the AICPA, is a certified insolvency and restructuring advisor and holds series 7 and 63 NASD licenses.