Daniel R. Van Vleet is a Managing Director in the Valuation & Financial Opinions Group. Mr. Van Vleet has extensive experience providing professional valuation advisory and economic analysis services in the fields of litigation, taxation, and corporate transactions. His advisory and analytical services have been provided in a broad range of industries and for a variety of purposes including fairness and solvency opinions, estate and gift taxation, income taxation, board of directors advisory services, shareholder disputes, marital dissolution, breach of contract matters, intellectual property disputes, corporate transaction disputes, bankruptcy and reorganization, purchase and sale advisement, and other litigation, tax, and corporate transaction related matters.
Mr. Van Vleet has provided professional services in the following industries, among others: advertising, aerospace, agriculture, apparel, architecture, automotive, aviation, beer and wine distribution, business consulting services, biotechnology, cable television, chemical manufacturing, commercial banking, commercial packaging, computers, construction, container manufacturing, dental equipment, direct marketing, e-commerce, education, electrical contracting, engineering, food brokerage and distribution, food processing, forest products, furniture manufacturing and distribution, gaming, genetic engineering, gold mining and exploration, grocery, hedge funds, high frequency trading, HVAC, hotels, insurance, investment banking, investment management services, law, liquor distillers and distributors, management consulting, marine, medical equipment, medicine, merchandise vending, metal fabrication, mobile data communications, mortgage banking, motion pictures, multi-level marketing, newspapers, office equipment, oil and gas pipelines and exploration, operations consulting, paper brokerage and distribution, pari-mutuel racing, petrochemical, pharmaceuticals, plastics, publishing, pulp and paper machinery manufacturing, quick service restaurants, real estate development and brokerage, resort/recreation, restaurants, retail, soft drinks and beverages, television and radio broadcasting, tobacco, transportation and trucking, and wholesale distribution.
Mr. Van Vleet is a contributing author to a number of business valuation books. He has also lectured extensively and presented numerous advanced education seminars on the subjects of business valuation, pass-through entity valuation, litigation advisory services, and transaction advisory services. In addition, he has testified as an expert witness at trial in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and depositions.
Prior to joining SRR, Mr. Van Vleet was a Managing Director with Duff & Phelps, LLC in its Valuation Advisory Services Group in Chicago. Prior to his affiliation with Duff & Phelps, LLC, he was the Managing Director in charge of the Chicago office of Willamette Management Associates.
Mr. Van Vleet sits on the International Executive Committee of the American Society of Appraisers. He is a former President of the Business Valuation Association of Chicago and a former President of the Chicago Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers. He is also a member of the Chicago Estate Planning Council and the valuation editorial review board for Trusts & Estates magazine.
Mr. Van Vleet has served as an adjunct professor of finance at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and a Continuing Education Instructor at Northwestern University. He also serves as a business valuation instructor for the American Society of Appraisers.
Education
M.B.A., University of ChicagoB.S., Portland State University
Designation
- Accredited Senior Appraiser, Business Valuation