Team
Larry Palaszynski is president and founder of Value Finders, Inc. Valuations have been performed for estate/gift tax, litigation support, buy/sell, and strategic planning purposes. Types of businesses valued include
manufactures, contractors, investment holding companies, service companies, retailers,
and distributors with sales up to $140 million. He has testified in court as an expert witness, the IRS has accepted his valuation reports in disputes, and has been retained by large CPA firms to review their more complicated business valuations. His diversified background includes monitoring the debt repayment capacity of a diverse portfolio of companies for banks.
Larry Palaszynski is a licensed CPA in New York State. He was awarded the AICPA’s Business Valuation Certificate of Educational Achievement. Attended numerous national business valuation seminars sponsored by the AICPA, the American Society of Appraisers, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, the ESOP Association, the Association of Insolvency Accountants and International Business Brokers Association and other professional organizations. A partial listing of speeches and published articles are shown on the speeches and publications page.
Professional memberships include the New York State Society of CPAs, past director of the Buffalo Chapter and current chair of the Cooperation with the Bar Committee. He is also an active participant on the Estate Planning, Mergers and Acquistions, and Business Valuation Committees at the state level and acts as technical support volunteer on business valuation issues. All specialized courses in business valuation leading to full accreditation by the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) have been passed. Other memberships include, the International Business Brokers Association, New York State Association of Business Brokers, Merger and Acquisition Source, the Association for Corporate Growth, Western New York Estate Analysts, and past director of the Institute of Management Accountants Buffalo Chapter.
Additional team members:
David Levine is a New York City based mergers and acquisition specialist with over fifteen years experience. He successfully completed nine mid market corporate merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, David participated in negotiations involving scores of companies in a wide range of industries. He founded and operated three business.
We also work with other business intermediaries around the United States and Canada for which we have established relationships.
Other Services – Because of today's complex business markets, no firm can provide all business services. We have an extensive network of local and national business specialists who handle specific issues such as business turnarounds, estate issues, legal, accounting, etc. We try to match a consultant or specialist who has experience in your industry, not just a generalist.