Meet the Economics Partners Team

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Mr. Urken has provided economic consulting services in the fields of transfer pricing and tax valuation for nearly 15 years. His practice focuses on the provision of transfer pricing and tax planning services to multinational firms and assistance in tax controversies. In this context Mr. Urken has performed a wide variety of economic analyses, including enterprise valuation, intangible asset valuation, and various transfer pricing analyses. Mr. Urken has substantial experience in a wide variety of industries, including private equity, consumer products, building materials, apparel, automotive, pharmaceutical, commodities, and computers.

Prior to joining Economics Partners, Mr. Urken was a Vice President in the Transfer Pricing practice of Charles River Associates, where he was responsible for transfer pricing and tax valuation in its Washington DC office. Previously, Mr. Urken was a Senior Manager with the Ballentine Barbera Group and, prior to that, a Manager with KPMG LLP.

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Jeff has more than 15 years of experience advising taxpayers on transfer pricing matters, intangible asset valuations and other complex corporate valuations. He works closely with some of the largest companies in the world and has advised or represented his clients during IRS tax audits, foreign tax audits, IRS fast-track negotiations, competent authority negotiations and Advanced Pricing Arrangement (“APA”) negotiations. Drawing on this tax controversy experience he also plays a critical role in designing, planning and executing his clients transfer pricing documentation strategies, particularly during periods of business reorganizations.

Mr. Cole has extensive experience in transfer pricing issues surrounding intangible assets and services and has spent much of his recent career advising clients on pricing intercompany intangible transfers as well as establishing R&D cost sharing arrangements.

After serving an appointment to the International Monetary Fund, where he authored papers on Canadian business taxation, U.S. income distribution, and Canadian public debt management, Mr. Cole started his transfer pricing career at KPMG, LLP and was one of a handful of equity partners that founded the Ballentine Barbera Group, LLC (“BBG”), which was later acquired by Charles River Associates (“CRA”). He left CRA to become a founding partner in the Washington, D.C. practice of Transfer Pricing Associates, LLC a Dutch advisory firm.

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Carl Hoemke specializes in valuing businesses, tangible, and intangible assets. Mr. Hoemke has handled issues involving the valuation for financial reporting, fairness opinions, bankruptcy, corporate disputes, and tax related matters. He has experience in a variety of industries including, telecommunications (i.e. cable, wireline, and wireless infrastructure and businesses), regulated and independent power facilities (i.e. wind, geothermal, nuclear, natural gas, coal, and hydro power), air transportation (i.e. passenger carriers, cargo carriers and fleet valuations), and manufacturing (i.e. cement plants and automotive).

Prior to joining Economics Partners, Mr. Hoemke spent thirty years in asset and business valuation advisory, and technology consulting, most recently as a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps, Managing Director at Standard & Poor’s, and Partner at Ernst & Young.

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Trent has been a CFO of two venture/growth equity-backed companies that ranked on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing companies in the country which he successfully led from their infancy to full liquidity events. He began his career as an Analyst in investment banking with Deutsche Bank helping many consumer and business services companies with public and private equity and debt capital raises as well as mergers and acquisitions. He was then a Senior Financial Analyst for a $200 million business unit of Honeywell. He then returned to investment banking as an Associate and then Vice President at Wachovia Securities and Sagent Advisors respectively. He worked with media, digital media, telecom, software/SaaS, and internet infrastructure companies on transactions that varied from multi-billion dollar LBOs to small growth equity capital raises. He was the CFO of OrangeSoda, an online marketing business, which he led to a sale to Deluxe Corp. and then Goal Zero, which he helped rank #9 on the Inc. 500 prior to helping lead it to a sale to NRG Energy. Trent received his B.A. and M.B.A. from BYU where he was a Hawes Scholar.