Since joining Patten, MacPhee & Associates, Inc. as a Financial/Forensic Consultant in 2003, Mike Burns has provided financial and legal analysis for a variety of client matters, including complex business and securities fraud litigation. During that time, he has also been appointed by the courts to serve as a receiver, monitor and special master.

As a CPA, a former small business owner, and a licensed attorney in Colorado for more than twenty-five years, Mike has worked successfully with a diverse group of individuals and organizations in a wide cross-section of industries, including education, banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail and all levels of government. As an attorney in private practice, he was responsible for transactional, regulatory and litigation matters involving, among other things, franchising and other distribution arrangements; antitrust and trade regulation; corporate and securities law issues; and, business acquisitions, mergers and sales.

For several years, Mike supervised and conducted both consumer fraud and antitrust investigations and litigation for the Denver Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California in a criminal fraud matter involving FTC defendants.

Mike graduated summa cum laude with an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Denver, and has earned a law degree, an MBA, and a MS in Accounting from the University of Colorado. He is an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.