Paul Aversano
Managing Director and National Practice Leader
Alvarez & Marsal Transaction Advisory Group
Paul Aversano is a Managing Director and National Practice Leader of Alvarez & Marsal's Transaction Advisory Group. For more than 12 years, Mr. Aversano has specialized in leading financial accounting due diligence projects for complex public and private company transactions.
Mr. Aversano focuses on providing accounting and transaction structuring advice for leverage recapitalizations, purchase accounting and SEC reporting, assessing quality of earnings, and GAAP accounting. He critiques financial models and reviews target companies' financial performance to identify cost reductions and/or operating efficiencies. He also brings extensive experience to legal counsel, including expert technical accounting guidance for purchase price arbitration and related analysis and support of purchase price adjustments. He has worked with management teams of private equity-backed portfolio companies to complete add-on acquisitions and direct platform investments.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Aversano was a Partner and Director of Middle Market Private Equity with Ernst & Young in New York. Mr. Aversano earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Binghamton University, School of Management. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New York.