About Matt
Matt Smith specializes in litigation, business valuation, and corporate restructuring. Mr. Smith has over 17 years of experience that includes telecommunications, healthcare, direct-to-consumer marketing, financial services, utilities, retail and professional sports.
Mr. Smith has extensive experience in commercial and insolvency litigation matters. He prepares analyses to determine solvency or damages involving breach on contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent conveyances, preferential transfers and shareholder disputes. He oversees all aspects of litigation engagements including document review, industry research, analysis, strategy planning, report preparation and deposition and trial testimony.
Mr. Smith leads clients through Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings including debtors, unsecured creditors’ committees, trustees, secured lenders and equity committees. Specifically, he has prepared first day motions, debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) budgets, 13-week cash flow projections and variance reports, bankruptcy schedules and statements of financial affairs, long-term business plans and forecasts, liquidation analyses and plans of reorganization.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting in 2022, Mr. Smith was an Associate Director in the Restructuring and Litigation Services practice at Protiviti.
Relevant Experience:- Adelphia Communications: Normalized Adelphia’s three-year financial restatement and prepared valuation of a $1.1 billion asset sale
- Confidential: Served as financial advisor on behalf of the senior lender to a group of skilled nursing facilities; tasked with assessing historical results, confirming covenant compliance and preparing cash flow projections
- Confidential: Currently serving as financial advisor to a debt settlement company with more than $80 million in annual revenue; tasked with preparing business plan assessment, overseeing cash flow projections and negotiating restructuring with senior lender.
- FCSA (Expert): Calculated damages sustained by utility provider as a result of residential developer’s breach of contract
- MF Global Inc.: Prepared valuation supporting $2 billion of damages resulting from management’s strategy of investing in European repurchase to maturity (“RTM”) securities
- Quorum Health: Prepared a valuation to assess the debtors’ solvency as of the emergence date
- Sears: Recast multiyear financial projections for solvency analyses at the time of several historical transactions ($125 million settlement)
- UFC: Prepared an expert report demonstrating the UFC’s ability to increase fighters’ compensation by more than $525 million over a six-year period
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor
Certification in Distressed Business Valuation
Associations
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants
Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors
Education
B.S., Springfield College
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Contact
T: +1 804 306 1445
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Office
4050 Innslake Drive
Suite 225
Glen Allen, VA 23060
United States
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Expertise
Business Valuation
Litigation Support & Analytical Services
Litigation Support & Consulting Services