Experts & Advisors
Naren Patel
Senior Managing Director
150 North Riverside Plaza, Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60606
+1.312.583.2102 Direct
+1.847.732.1520 Mobile
Naren Patel is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in Chicago, who provides forensic accounting and data analytics expertise to corporations and their counsel involved in accounting investigations and tax controversies. Naren has presented his findings to corporate executives, opposing counsel, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Experience
Naren had previously worked for one of the Big 4 multinational professional services firm, and management consulting firm. Over his career, he has developed the ability to use database and business intelligence tools, along with his acute understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, to make complex concepts and financial analyses accessible and understandable to non-experts. Naren is particularly skilled at complex and aytpical financial statement analyses that are constructed from a wide array of disparate sources, disaggregating intercompany transactions, general ledgers / journal entries, subledgers, and trial balance financial data among them.
Naren’s capabilities allow him to be industry agnostic as he has served clients involved in biotech/pharmaceuticals, social/medical/financial technology, power management, computer hardware, e-commerce, and others. Naren has assisted taxpayers at various stages of investigations and litigation, from audits, interrogatories, stipulations, and expert reporting, to trial and Rule 155 procedures. He has also assisted public companies in determining external financial reporting accounting reserve and disclosure amounts stemming from litigation, in addition to evaluating settlement alternatives for complex transfer pricing disputes.
Naren has participated in several high-profile tax controversy matters, including:
- Facebook v. Commissioner, T.C. Docket No. 21959-16
- The Coca-Cola Company v. Commissioner, T.C. Docket No. 31183-15
- Amazon.com, Inc. v. Commissioner, T.C. Docket No. 31197-12
- Education
- BS, Summa Cum Laude, Accounting and Finance (Minor- Informatics), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant
- Certified Information Technology Professional
- Certified Fraud Examiner
- Languages
- Gujarati
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