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Gerald (Jerry) Hansen is a CPA and forensic accountant with extensive experience across a variety of accounting, audit, and financial forensics services including purchase price dispute arbitrations, audit services, expert services, forensic due diligence, and fraud investigations. He has served at a Big 4 public accounting firm, a multinational consultancy, as well as global corporations in a career spanning over 25 years. Jerry is currently a partner with Forensic Risk Alliance and leads their M&A dispute practice globally. Jerry previously served as the Southwest Region leader of Ernst & Young’s Transaction Forensics practice, a specialty practice that focused on disputes, investigations, and forensic due diligence services that stem from contemplated and completed merger and acquisition transactions. Jerry also has in-house experience in software revenue recognition, mortgage banking and insurance claims. Jerry has provided dispute, forensic and audit related services to clients in a wide range of industries including real estate, technology, energy, transportation, manufacturing, software, food services, publishing, automotive, healthcare, retail, staffing services, advertising and financial services. Jerry is the author (along with another colleague) of the book M&A Disputes – A Professional Guide to Accounting Arbitrations, a contributing author to The Litigation Services Handbook as well as the AICPA book The Guide to Investigating Business Fraud, in addition to other articles and presentations. He holds a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University and an MS in Accounting from the University of Virginia. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Texas.