Arya S. Rahimian is a Managing Director in the Valuation Advisory Services practice, based in Los Angeles. He leverages fifteen years of experience in valuation.

Arya’s work has involved valuation of business interests, debt securities, preferred and common securities, and intangible assets and intellectual property for a variety of purposes, including transaction pricing, financing, financial reporting (ASC 805, 350, 360, 820 and 718), due diligence, domestic and international tax, joint venture formation, litigation, arbitration, mediation, and stock option pricing.

In addition, Arya has led the valuation of several sports franchises and underlying assets, including media rights, trade names, and athletes’ names, images, and likenesses. He is an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Southern California, where he teaches business valuation and corporate finance.

Chidi Oteh is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital and Sports practices at Paul Hastings, based in Boston. He advises investment advisers, hedge funds, private equity funds and institutional investors on fund formation, governance, regulatory compliance and transactions, and counsels public companies on SEC reporting and corporate governance.

He maintains a substantial sports practice, advising private equity sponsors on acquisitions and dispositions of ownership interests in professional sports teams and sports-related businesses, and representing leagues, teams, coaches, athletes and universities on sponsorship, licensing, broadcasting and media-rights arrangements. He previously served as associate counsel for the Oakland Athletics and the San Jose Earthquakes.

Dr Jacqueline Garner is a finance academic at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, where she teaches financial management, financial modelling and sports valuation, and is the inaugural Faculty Director of the university’s Business of Sports and Entertainment minor.

She previously worked as a financial analyst and as an economist at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and has held faculty posts at several US universities. Her research covers IPOs, corporate governance and investment banking, and she has received multiple teaching awards.

Richard Haigh is Managing Director of Brand Finance and a Chartered Accountant specialising in brand and intangible asset valuation, with more than a decade in value-based marketing and valuation. He sat on the ISO Technical Committee 289 on brand valuation and contributed to the brand evaluation standard ISO 20671, and he lectures on the subject, including a guest series at London Business School.

He leads Brand Finance’s studies of sports and club value, including its annual Football 50 ranking of club enterprise values and its analysis of events such as the European Super League.