William Redpath
Vice President, Consulting

Expertise: Business and intangible asset valuation, media and telecommunications industry valuations and trends.

William Redpath is a Vice President for BIA Financial Network, with an expertise in the appraisal of broadcasting, cable, and telecommunications businesses and intangible assets. Bill works on valuation projects, both fair market valuations and purchase price allocations for financial reporting and tax reporting purposes. He frequently speaks on business and intangible asset valuation and media and telecommunications valuations and trends. His primary work focuses on valuation engagements in litigation support projects, with the majority of his projects as a support in litigation cases. Prior to joining BIAfn in 1985, Bill was a Senior Financial Analyst with NBC in New York.

After completing his formal education, Bill was a staff auditor in the Cincinnati office of Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1980 to 1982. Subsequent to that, he was Assistant Financial Manager of WISH-TV in Indianapolis for one year before joining the Internal Audit Department at ABC, where he worked on numerous audits, including those of WXYZ(AM) (now WXYT), WRIF(FM) and WXYZ(TV), Detroit.

Bill has been involved in scores of litigation involving valuation issues and has defended intangible asset valuations before the Internal Revenue Service. He has authored articles for the BCFM Journal and other professional journals on intangible asset valuation. He has testified in state courts, United States District Court and United States Bankruptcy Court on valuation matters.

Bill earned his B.A. degree in Economics and Political Science from Indiana University and his M.B.A. from The University of Chicago. He is a Certified Public Accountant, State of Indiana, 1983, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1991. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, from which he has earned the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) designation. He is also an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Business Valuation with the American Society of Appraisers and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

To inquire further about BIAfn's litigation support and to request further details about Redpath's expert testimony work, please email us. litigation@bia.com