Hiral Shah

Executive summary

Hiral Shah is a Managing Director in Grant Thornton’s – Valuation & Modeling practice in Dallas.

Hiral has more than 15 years of financial valuation experience. She specializes in valuation of business enterprises, valuation of intangible assets and financial instruments for financial reporting, tax planning and strategic planning purposes. She has worked on numerous engagements as it relates to estimating the enterprise value of a company, purchase price allocations for business combination purposes (valuing assets and liabilities acquired), goodwill and long-lived asset impairment tests, and equity allocations.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Hiral worked at large global and national consulting firms such as Duff & Phelps (Kroll), HealthCare Appraisers, and CBIZ Valuation Group.

Hiral has served public and private clients in a wide range of industries, including, technology and telecommunications, hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, financial services, retail, management consulting, printing and publishing, media.

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• CFA Institute
• Financial Executives International
• Texas Wall Street Women

Education

• University of Texas at Arlington, MBA in Finance
• University of Mumbai, BE – Computer Science