Mr. Shanahan brings 25+ years of experience advising boards and corporations on a range of investigative matters, including financial reporting misstatement, employee misconduct, misappropriation of assets, bid-rigging, and bribery and corruption issues. He also consults and testifies on litigation matters involving financial and accounting issues, including economic damages, fraudulent conveyance, lost profit analysis, and business interruption claims.

Mr. Shanahan has significant experience advising fiduciaries in the administration of post-bankruptcy and receivership assets and has served as a financial advisor to court-appointed receivers. In these roles, he conducted factual investigations to identify assets and develop litigation claims to increase the recovery for creditors, reviewed and evaluated asserted claims, and assisted with developing an equitable distribution methodology and administering the related distributions.

Mr. Shanahan’s notable engagements include investigating the business dealings of a leading developer of solar energy projects and advising the unsecured creditors’ committee in connection with the company’s bankruptcy proceedings; advising a litigation trustee on the reconciliation of 6,000+ claims with an asserted value exceeding $20 billion and prosecution of avoidance actions valued at $600+ million; conducting a comprehensive investigation into the business dealings and financial transactions of a $100 million Ponzi scheme; and conducting an investigation amid bribery and corruption allegations concerning the senior management team of a computer component maker’s facility in Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Shanahan was a Senior Director with Kroll, where he assisted clients with fraud, fidelity claim investigations, due diligence, and business interruption claims. He began his career at a public accounting firm, assisting clients with forensic accounting and bankruptcy matters, in addition to audit and tax services.

Mr. Shanahan earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Villanova University. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF).