Taylor Burns is the lead for Withum’s Healthcare Valuation Services group and brings over 13 years of experience to valuation matters involving healthcare entities and medical professionals.
Taylor assists health systems, providers, investors, and advisors with regulatory compliance and strategic planning by providing formal opinions of value and related guidance for mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and minority interests within the healthcare services sector. This includes fair market value determinations, commercial reasonableness assessments, and fair value analyses for financial reporting purposes. He also provides litigation support for clients and their legal counsel on matters involving healthcare services for shareholder disputes, marital dissolutions, contractual breaches, and economic damage claims.
Taylor has a broad background of experience with health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, dialysis clinics, diagnostic imaging facilities, management service organizations, community hospitals, and related party entities. He has also performed valuations for management service arrangements, restrictive covenants, personal goodwill and other intangibles, option pricing, and blockage discounts for large positions in publicly traded equity.
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Outside of work, Taylor is an international traveler and a classically trained pianist. He also enjoys research into a wide variety of topics, including artificial and non-human intelligence, decentralized finance, world history and philosophy.
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