Peter Abrahamson has more than 15 years of valuation and investment banking experience, specializing in the valuation of business enterprises and individual securities, structuring ESOP transactions, and executing public and private market capital raises. At Verit, Mr. Abrahamson leads the technical aspects of ESOP financial modeling, valuation, tax, accounting and human capital topics for our clients. He has analyzed and structured multiple large, complex multi-investor transactions across numerous industries including business services, construction, direct consumer selling, distribution, engineering services, gaming and manufacturing.

Prior to Verit, Mr. Abrahamson served as Manager in Deloitte's valuation consulting practice where he was Deloitte's national ESOP valuation expert and most often served ESOP clients as part of cross functional teams including audit, tax and human capital professionals. Prior to his tenure at Deloitte, Mr. Abrahamson was a Vice President in the investment banking group EVEREN Securities (now part of Wells Fargo Securities). During his time at EVEREN, he helped raise more than $1.9 billion in growth capital in his more than 30 common equity and preferred equity transactions. Additionally, he has experience in securities valuation for fixed income, convertible securities and options.

He serves on the ESOP Association's valuation advisory committee and has spoken at numerous conferences regarding advanced ESOP valuation and transaction structuring topics.

Mr. Abrahamson received his undergraduate degree as a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration from Cornell University and his Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.