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Chris Kramer

Company: Acuity Advisors
Title: Managing Director

Location

6 Hutton Center Drive, Suite 860
South Coast Metro, CA 92707

Biography

Chris brings to Acuity Advisors and its clients over 30 years of financial advisory and investment banking experience. He has extensive expertise in structuring and negotiating transactions across a wide variety of industries, and has prepared financial opinions addressing the value of common and preferred stock, various debt securities, intangible assets of all types, the fairness of certain transactions, and the value of a wide variety of non-traditional types of assets.
Chris in past years was the director of financial opinions for Pacific Corporate Group, a private equity advisory firm, and spent over five years with Marshall and Stevens, Inc., a national valuation firm. He has also held positions as a commercial loan analyst for a major southern California S & L, and various positions in the insurance, advertising, and retail industries.
He is past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, and has been a part-time lecturer at California State University, Long Beach in the Finance Department. He has spoken before various groups of attorneys, accountants, and business owners. 

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Education & Expertise

Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from California State University, Northridge; MBA with a Finance concentration from the University of Southern California. Chris holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and is an Accredited Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA).

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Blog Posts by Chris Kramer

ESOP in Practice: How Does it Really Work?

If you didn’t read my last article, you may want to check the September/October issue of BoxScore to get the background on the pros and...
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ESOP: Let Them Eat Cake and Have It Too!

Let’s face it, you’ve been running the company a long time. Maybe you started or bought into it, or were lucky enough to inherit it....
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Chris Kramer is speaking at the 2015 Vegas ESOP Conference

Chris Kramer will join Philip J. Carstens, Jr. of K&L Gates LLP and Ted M. Becker of Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP, in a Panel...
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