As a qualified Business Valuer and Accountant, and leveraging on his extensive network and commercial experience, Sheue Chuan is well-equipped to advise his clients on deal structuring, pre-deal financial management and other Mergers and Acquisition matters. Specific deal advisory services provided by Sheue Chuan include deal strategy, business valuation for transactions, marketing business for sale, financial modeling and financial deal diligence.

As a business valuation practitioner, Sheue Chuan provides Financial Reporting related valuation services to his clients. This includes Purchase Price Allocation, Financial Instrument Valuation, Intangible Asset Valuation, Share-based Payment Valuation and Impairment Reviews

Sheue Chuan is passionate about mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners. He has experience as a Financial Mentor to start-ups, collaborating with Venture Accelerators and had acted as outsourced CFO for SMEs including an F&B Group, an Aesthetic and Wellness Group and a Med-tech company.

In his earlier career, Sheue Chuan spent 12 years at Korn Ferry International, a premier global provider of talent management solutions headquartered in Los Angeles as their Regional Finance Director, Asia Pacific. Based in their Singapore office, he led the finance and HR function of the Firm’s Leadership & Talent Consulting (LTC) practice across the Asia Pacific Region as well as the Executive Search business for Singapore and Indonesia. During his tenure at Korn Ferry, Sheue Chuan was actively involved in business planning and advisory supporting geography heads and business leaders on operational, acquisition and investment matters.

Prior to joining Korn Ferry, Mr Foo was a Manager and M&A specialist with price Waterhousecoopers (PwC) Transaction Services team focusing on providing financial due diligence services to clients across diverse industry sectors, He began his career as an Auditor with Price Waterhouse Singapore (predecessor of PwC), and later moved into Financial Analyst role with Walt Disney Television before returning to PwC.

Mr Foo holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (CVA), Chartered Accountant Singapore (CA, Singapore) and a Singapore Certified Management Consultant (SCMC).

Since 2007 and under his leadership, KNAVs Financial Reporting and Valuation Service (FRVS) line has conducted over 1000 valuation engagements specializing in transaction valuations and valuations for financial reporting purposes under U.S. GAAP, SFRS and IFRS.

Rajesh advises multinational firms in financial reporting with a special focus on fair value measurements, business combinations, impairment testing and share based payments. He has enriching experience in audit and financial reporting for a host of Indian multinational companies for financial statements prepared in accordance of USGAAP, IFRS, and Ind AS.

Rajesh contributes thought provoking articles and comments regularly to local and international media, professional publications and professional bodies. He is regularly invited to present papers and speak at various conferences, webinars and seminars organized by NASSCOM.

Apart from his professional interests, Rajesh is also a trustee of a family run educational society and sactions educational aids to eligible school children.

Rajesh is an Accredited Senior Appraiser and a member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA). He is also a US Certified Public Accountant from the Delaware State Board of Accountancy, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also passed the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) exam from the AICPA, a highly sought after academic credential in Valuation.

Rajesh holds a Master degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai.

Articles published

• Building a discount rate for early stage companies
• Valuation of companies operating in Cannabis Industries
• Valuation of non-compete agreements
• Valuation of deferred revenue and lease contracts
• Valuation of Proprietary technology
• Valuation of Tradename
• Valuation of Customer related intangibles
• Subsequent accounting in a business combination
• Private equity valuation
• Impairment of assets
• Accounting for business combination
• Components of purchase consideration
• Size adjustment of market multiples
• Valuation of contingent consideration
• Real option valuation
• Valuation under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy code
• Valuation requirements for share based payments

CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY

Apart from his professional interests, Rajesh is also a trustee of a family run educational society and sanctions educational aids to eligible school children.