Rick Childs
Partner
Navigating Today’s M&A Market
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Rick Childs
Partner
Rick Childs is a partner at Crowe LLP. He has over 35 years of experience in business valuation, transaction advisory services and accounting for financial services companies. Mr. Childs is the national practice leader overseeing the delivery of transaction and valuation services to the firm’s financial institutions clientele. His business valuation experience includes ASC 805 purchase price allocations including a focus on loan valuations, ASC 350 goodwill impairment testing and valuation of customer relationship intangible assets, including core deposit intangibles.
Mr. Childs is a frequent presenter for both national and state professional organizations including the SNL Financial, Bank Director, AICPA and Financial Managers Society. He has published articles on mergers and acquisitions in the ABA’s Commercial Insights, Community Banker, Bank Director and Bank Accounting & Finance.
Bank deal activity in 2017 is likely to be on par with 2016, as the bank executives and board members responding to Bank Director’s 2017 Bank M&A Survey reflect lower levels of optimism for the bank M&A environment. In this video, Rick Childs, a partner at survey sponsor Crowe Horwath LLP, provides his perspective on the survey results and explains why, despite a lower number of sellers, it really is a buyer’s market today.
- Expected Deal Activity for 2017
- What Successful Buyers Look For in a Target
- Factors That Sink a Deal
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WRITTEN BY
Rick Childs
Partner
Rick Childs is a partner at Crowe LLP. He has over 35 years of experience in business valuation, transaction advisory services and accounting for financial services companies. Mr. Childs is the national practice leader overseeing the delivery of transaction and valuation services to the firm’s financial institutions clientele. His business valuation experience includes ASC 805 purchase price allocations including a focus on loan valuations, ASC 350 goodwill impairment testing and valuation of customer relationship intangible assets, including core deposit intangibles.
Mr. Childs is a frequent presenter for both national and state professional organizations including the SNL Financial, Bank Director, AICPA and Financial Managers Society. He has published articles on mergers and acquisitions in the ABA’s Commercial Insights, Community Banker, Bank Director and Bank Accounting & Finance.