Brian Allen, Principal

Brian Allen has spent 15 years across the disciplines that LHM now integrates. He began his career in institutional commercial real estate at Eastdil Secured, where he modeled more than $3 billion in hospitality, office, and mixed-use transactions for institutional sponsors and lenders, including the then-record $2.0 billion West Coast office portfolio sale. He moved into corporate finance at AECOM, serving as Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer through a period of meaningful capital-structure activity.

In the twelve years before starting LHM, most recently as Senior Vice President of a valuation practice, Brian directed more than 250 valuation engagements, representing more than $5 billion in enterprise value, for audit teams, PE-backed acquirers, estate counsel, and litigation counsel: more than 100 ASC 805 purchase price allocations and other M&A transaction work, 409As with complex cap structures, ASC 820 portfolio valuations, large estate planning portfolios, and expert witness damages analyses. Cannabis operators and licensed facilities have been a recurring part of that work. LHM offers both disciplines directly, and is built to handle the cases where they overlap.

Most valuation engagements fall cleanly into one discipline, and LHM takes those on their own terms: a commercial appraisal or a business valuation scoped to its purpose and its reviewer. The added capability is the second category, where the two disciplines have to be reconciled, handled with the same care as the first.