Bio:  Mr. Oates is a Managing Director of Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC (“MFC”). Mr. Oates specializes in the valuation and financial analysis of equipment and facilities for leasing purposes, project financing, intangible assets and total enterprises. He has also prepared valuations for machinery and equipment, business enterprise, and intangible properties such as capital stocks, patents, contracts and license agreements. Appraisals completed by Mr. Oates have been for purposes of sale/leaseback, sale/purchase, income tax, allocation of purchase price, and business and estate planning.

Bio:  Ms. Hill is a Senior Vice President – Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC. She is responsible for performing and managing projects for the valuation of equipment and facilities for leasing and financing purposes within the leasing industry. The valuation assignments have been performed for the following purposes: sale/leaseback transactions, tax leases and synthetic leases, project financing, purchase price allocation, and transaction pricing. Premises of value for current values and residual values include: fair market value-in use or exchange, liquidation value-orderly or forced, and reproduction or replacement value.

Ms. Hill has experience valuing assets in a wide variety of industries. Types of equipment and facilities she has valued include various types of manufacturing including automobile manufacturing, high tech manufacturing, and renewable energy projects. Other equipment types valued include food and beverage and chemical processing plants, flour, and ingredient mix mills, dairy, communications; television and radio broadcasting; textile and apparel plants, rubber, plastics and glass production, medical, construction, mining, intermodal, railroad, and trucking.