Bio

Jay Moody is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Transaction Advisory Group in Atlanta, focusing on providing all aspects of accounting and transaction advice. He works with multinational corporate, infrastructure and private equity clients on financial due diligence projects involving both public and private companies. He assists clients on both the buy- and sell-side throughout the transaction life cycle, from pre-deal evaluations through post-deal purchase price adjustments; analyzing the quality of earnings, net assets and cash flows; assessing key business drivers; critiquing valuation models; and working with buyers and sellers on purchase agreements and in support of purchase price adjustments. Mr. Moody has led or participated in due diligence on over 250 transactions, with significant experience in natural resources and infrastructure, including more than 30 independent power producers, individual power plants, regulated electric utilities, natural gas utilities, transmission assets, alternative energy producers, and energy marketers; more than 30 midstream oil and gas companies and oilfield services providers; more than 15 transactions in the transportation space; as well as more than 15 transactions in communications. Mr. Moody served as interim Vice-President of Finance for a division of a private equity-owned utilities and telecom services business, as well as assisted with working capital performance improvement for a large public utility. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Moody was a Senior Manager in the Transaction Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young, where he led financial accounting due diligence projects for private equity investor groups and strategic buyers. Previously, Mr. Moody worked at Mirant Corporation, an Atlanta-based independent power producer, serving as the manager of Caribbean region accounting, responsible for purchase accounting, IFRS to U.S. GAAP conversion and monthly consolidations of the company’s four Caribbean region investments. He also was the manager of accounting research, policy and projects, managing the company’s impairment and fresh-start valuation projects. Mr. Moody began his career with the audit practice of Arthur Andersen in Atlanta. Mr. Moody received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, cum laude, in accounting from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Georgia.