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Anthony Festa, ASA, is a Managing Director in the New York Office’s Machinery & Equipment Practice of Marshall & Stevens Incorporated. Mr. Festa’s responsibilities include overseeing the delivery of valuation services to the Firm’s machinery and equipment valuation clients.

Mr. Festa leads asset valuations for buy/sell consideration, financing, insurance, tax reporting, and financial reporting purposes including purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 and ASC 360), and Internal Revenue Code Sections 861, 382, and 704(c).  Financing engagements include valuations for leasing and other structure finance transactions and bankruptcy/reorganization including fresh-start accounting.

Mr. Festa has served clients in a wide variety of industries including, but not limited to: automotive, aerospace and defense, broadcast and communications, chemicals, entertainment, financial services, food production, healthcare, hospitality, mining and milling, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, restaurants, semiconductor, telecommunications, textiles, water and other infrastructure projects.

Specific to the water infrastructure industry, he has performed valuations for several Texas-based investor-owned water and wastewater plants for a transaction, a New Jersey township for a transaction, and a New Hampshire wastewater plant for financing purposes. He is an associate member of the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) and has spoken at numerous professional conferences on the valuation of water utilities including the NAWC Water Summit in 2019.

He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Machinery & Technical Specialties with the American Society of Appraisers. He has served in multiple leadership roles for New York City chapter of the American Society of Appraisers including President of the chapter in 2010-2011.

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Patrick Craig is a Principal, Executive Managing Director, and National Practice Leader for the Real Estate Valuation Practice at Marshall & Stevens Incorporated.

Mr. Craig has over 30 years of experience in the real estate business involving valuation of single assets or portfolios, serving clients in the financial services, banking, REIT, insurance, legal, accounting, audit, corporate, development, pension and asset management sectors. His experience includes valuation and consulting for proposed and existing real estate projects and real estate portfolios including office, industrial, apartment, retail, hotel, mixed-use, self-storage, and community facility uses. He has also worked on matters of dispute including serving as a valuation expert in litigation.

Mr. Craig entered the real estate business in 1986. Prior to joining Marshall & Stevens, he led the Northeast valuation practice for Colliers International, while running the firm’s Portfolio Valuation Group and Business Innovation Committee and serving on the firm’s Global Leadership Team. Prior to Colliers International, he spent almost two decades with Cushman & Wakefield serving in numerous leadership roles including co-leader of its Portfolio Valuation Group, as Chairman of the firm’s Business Innovation Committee, and as a member of the Global Business Initiatives Council. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, he held real estate appraisal positions at Dorman & Wilson and European American Bank.

He has served on the Board of Directors for the NY Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. He is an affiliate member of ADISA, a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, NCREIF, and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is licensed as a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Virginia, Iowa and Illinois.

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Leo Dorsey is a Director for the Machinery & Equipment Practice of Marshall & Stevens Incorporated.

Mr. Dorsey has worked in the valuation industry for over 30 years. He provides analyses of machinery, equipment, buildings and improvements for clients in a wide variety of industries for financing, financial reporting, tax reporting and insurance placement.

Prior to Marshall & Stevens in 2011, Mr. Dorsey was employed in senior technical positions at Mesirow Financial Consulting, Navigant Capital Advisors, LLC, Lease Valuation International, Inc., and American Appraisal Associates, Inc.

Mr. Dorsey is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (“ASA”) with the American Society of Appraisers, Machinery & Technical Specialties (“MTS”) - Machinery & Equipment. He is active in the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (“ELFA”).

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Ryan Lucas is a Director with Marshall & Stevens through the New York office. He works in business development. 

Mr. Lucas joined Marshall & Stevens in 2024. He works with public and private companies and their trusted advisors to provide valuations of businesses, real estate, and intangible assets for estate and gift tax reporting, buy/sell consideration, and financing purposes. 

Prior to Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Lucas served for over twenty years in a variety of sales and marketing management positions within the finance and technology industries.

Mr. Lucas is an active member in his community and is currently a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and B.E.A.M. (Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry). 

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John “JC” Feldman is an Assistant Director, Business Development in the Tampa Office of Marshall & Stevens Incorporated.

Mr. Feldman works with clients and their trusted advisors to provide valuation solutions to assist them with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, wealth transfer, recapitalizations, and insurance placement.

Prior to joining Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Feldman worked in medical sales. He was the Director of Operations for a start-up telehealth company, LifeLight Systems and before that spent seven years with Orthomedx, a medical device company, where his role grew to managing the second largest territory in Florida.

Mr. Feldman earned a Bachelor of Science, Biology, from the University of Central Florida where he was a member of men’s lacrosse team.

He is a member of the Orlando chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and Secured Finance Network (SFNet).

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J. Fernando Sosa is a Managing Director in the Energy & Infrastructure Practice of Marshall & Stevens Incorporated. He is co-leader of its Chicago E&I region and oversees the execution of valuation consulting services to the firm’s public and privately held clients.

Mr. Sosa specializes in valuation and cost estimates of tangible assets and integrated projects/facilities both domestic and international. Independent valuation consulting and opinions are provided for buy/sell consideration, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financings, financial reporting, tax reporting, bankruptcy/restructuring, feasibility, and matters of dispute including litigation support. He is fluent in Spanish and has performed appraisals for clients throughout the United States and for multinational clients in England, Spain, México, Panamá, Dominican Republic, Chile, El Salvador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico.

Mr. Sosa is responsible for the valuation of residential, commercial and industrial, community, distributed generation, and utility scale solar electric generation projects and portfolios, wind electric generation projects, stand-alone energy storage, microgrids, and renewable natural gas projects. He works with our Financial Valuation Practice on financial reporting analyses. He leads the valuation of facilities to qualify for repowering (“80/20 test”).

Tax reporting assignments are most commonly provided for compliance with Internal Revenue Code Sections 861, 382, and 704(c), cost segregation (MACRS) and personal property tax. Financial reporting assignment including purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 and 360), and fresh start accounting (ASC 852).

Mr. Sosa has served clients in a variety of industries including aviation, construction, energy generation, entertainment, food processing, hospitality, manufacturing, medical imaging, plastic injection molding, retail, semiconductor, steel reprocessing, transportation, waste collection and recycle, water/wastewater treatment plants, and other infrastructure projects.

Prior to rejoining Marshall & Stevens, Mr. Sosa served in senior roles at Cushman & Wakefield, CohnReznick, and American Appraisal Associates. He started his valuation career in American Appraisal’s Public Accounting Service Group. He was employed by Marshall & Stevens from 2002-2005.

An Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Machinery & Technical Specialties with the American Society of Appraisers, Mr. Sosa currently serves as Chair of Membership for the International American Society of Appraisers and has served in leadership roles for the Chicago chapter of the American Society of Appraisers including chapter President in 2022-2023. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Charted Surveyors (MRICS).

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