Managing Director | Advisory Services
Cory Chiovari is a Managing Director in FGMK’s Advisory Services Practice with nearly 25 years of valuation, transaction, and financial advisory experience. He advises business owners, boards of directors, attorneys, healthcare organizations, private equity firms, and corporate clients on complex financial matters, helping them evaluate strategic opportunities, resolve disputes, and make informed business decisions.
Cory specializes in business valuation, dispute consulting, forensic and economic damages analysis, financial reporting valuations, estate and gift tax valuations, stock-based compensation, fairness opinions, purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment testing, and transaction advisory services. His experience includes buy-side and sell-side advisory engagements, strategic alternatives assessments, transaction planning and strategy development, confidential information memorandum preparation, due diligence support, letter of intent and definitive agreement negotiations, regulatory approval guidance, carve-out analyses, and financial data analytics for organizations navigating significant business events and strategic transactions.
Cory has extensive experience serving clients across a wide range of industries, with particular expertise in healthcare. He has advised healthcare organizations on strategic alternatives, mergers and acquisitions, organizational consolidations, transaction planning, due diligence, regulatory approval processes, and valuation matters. His experience includes leading valuation engagements involving multi-billion-dollar healthcare systems, providing dispute and economic damages analyses in high-stakes litigation matters, and advising clients on complex transactions and strategic initiatives. His experience also includes complex valuation, dispute, and transaction advisory engagements involving privately held businesses, private equity-backed companies, and family-owned enterprises across numerous industries.
Cory joined FGMK in 2014 and has advanced to his current role as Managing Director. He is a recognized thought leader in the valuation and transaction advisory profession and has served as a moderator and speaker for industry organizations, including the Business Valuation Association of Chicago. Prior to joining FGMK, he worked at Kaufman Hall in its healthcare mergers and acquisitions practice and at Willamette Management Associates, where he developed extensive experience in business valuation and financial consulting.