The Ostermueller Group - Business Valuation, Compensation Reasonableness, Expert Witnesses, Litigation Support Merger/Acquisitions and related services

Business Valuations

Executive Compensation Reasonableness Determination

Forensics and Litigation Support

Merger/Acquisition Capital and Debt Financing

Related Consulting and Expert Testimony

The Ostermueller Group (TOG) is a professional firm of independent valuation advisors, certified fraud examiners, executive compensation advisors, expert witnesses and merger/acquisition/economic research consultants. Since 1981, we have provided attorneys (plaintiff and defense), CPAs, stockholders, insurers and other financial services professionals & their clients with independent business/professional practice appraisals, fraud/forensic investigations with a broad range of damage compilation and other litigation support services, expert testimony, compensation reasonableness determinations, economic research, M&A services, and related advisory services.

TOG is a member firm of the Financial Consulting Group, L.C. (FCG). FCG is a national organization of 100+ BV practices and related firms who have pooled their technical expertise and created large organization synergies. FCG member firms share their specific valuation/litigation experience and industry knowledge to develop shared processes and methodologies that increase the ultimate effectiveness and quality of services to each firm's clients.

Executive Compensation Solutions, Inc., and Financial Valuation Group Of Missouri, LLC, are U.S. entities related to The Ostermueller Group, LLC, via common ownership.

Based in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area, The Ostermueller Group has served U.S. clients from Alaska, Hawaii and California east to Massachusetts and Maine. The Ostermueller Group has served international clients in the Toronto, Ontario, Vancouver, B.C., Whitehorse, Yukon areas and financial surety firms in the U.K. TOG professionals have been qualified as expert witnesses for valuation, damage projections and compilations, and for other business/financial purposes in a variety of courts, including U.S. Federal, Probate, Bankruptcy and State Courts, and in the Canadian Supreme Courts.

Mr. Ralph Ostermueller, CPA, ASA, ABV, CFE, has been called before multiple state and federal courts as an expert witness for business valuations, executive compensation reasonableness determination, and personal/ business damages.

Mr. Ostermueller has been in the professional practice of accounting, management consulting, business brokerage/M&A, and independent appraisal since 1962. He has served as Senior Manager, Director, Department Head, Consultant and Senior Staff for three national/international CPA and management consulting firms, owned and operated a small business brokerage in St. Louis, and was the Chief Financial Officer for a five-bank group in Oklahoma.

In addition to being certified and licensed as a CPA in Missouri, Mr. Ostermueller has earned certifications as an Accredited Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) - Business Valuation and Intangibles, and as an Accredited Business Valuer (ABV) by the American Institute of CPAs.

Further, Mr. Ostermueller was a member of the Business Valuation Subcommittee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), was a member of the ASA's BV - Board Of Examiners & Public Relations Committee, and he has served multiple terms as Chairperson of the statewide Litigation Services Committee and on the Public Relations Committee for the Missouri Society Of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA). He has been admitted as a Practicing Member of the Academy Of Experts (MAE) in London, England, and is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). For the AICPA, he co-developed and co-presented the AICPA's seminar on Business Valuation to 20 U.S. federal judges from the Tax, Claims, Bankruptcy and District Courts in a 2-day taped session at the Federal Judicial Center's facilities in Washington, D.C. The finished seminar tape was distributed to the entire federal judiciary via the Center's in-house TV facilities & via video tapes made available to each of the U.S. Federal Courts.