Ted Stafford is a Partner in the Investigations, Disputes & Advisory practice at AlixPartners and is based in Dallas. He brings two decades of experience advising boards of directors, executives, attorneys, and regulators on complex, high-impact accounting, transactional, and dispute-related matters.
Ted has testified as an expert and has been retained as an expert in forensic accounting, damages, and post-closing arbitrations. He has extensive experience as a business advisor, litigation consultant, and forensic accountant, and has supported both public and privately held clients across numerous U.S. and international forums.
Ted advises clients across a wide range of M&A transactions, providing accounting and financial expertise throughout the deal lifecycle, including leading teams in financial due diligence and quality of earnings analyses. He also routinely supports clients in resolving M&A-related disputes, serving as an expert, diligence advisor, and independent accountant in matters involving purchase price adjustments, earn-out provisions, and representations and warranties.
A member of the AICPA’s Forensic and Valuation Services Executive Committee, Ted is also a Certified Public Accountant, is Certified in Financial Forensics, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. He holds a Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business and a BA in Economics from Grinnell College.
Relevant Experience:
- Retained as an expert, independent accountant, and consultant in dozens of post-closing disputes involving the application of accounting standards, determination of closing balance sheet measurements or earn-out provisions, breaches of representations and warranties, and allegations of fraud.
- Provided buy-side financial due diligence, including quality of earnings and working capital analysis on a $500+ million acquisition of a sports and entertainment collectables company.
- Led forensic accountants, consultants, and data analytics teams on projects related to regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and litigation for several of the largest US telecommunications providers.
- Calculated economic damages and provided forensic accounting for matters tried in federal, state, international and regulatory forums.
- Supported clients and governmental agencies (SEC, DOJ, FTC, FDIC, SIPC, and OCC) across a broad range of forensic accounting investigations and accounting-related disputes.