About Us
SHELLY H. TANAKA
Appraiser

Shelly prepares valuations of closely held businesses and real estate. Her business valuations include limited partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies (LLCs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs). Because of her familiarity with both real property and business valuation, she is able to effectively assist clients in their acquisitions and mergers, stock transfers and redemptions, estate planning and gifting decisions, internal accounting, ESOP reporting, and divorce settlement.

Shelly's real estate valuations include commercial, industrial, residential, and agricultural properties on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii. Shelly appraises leasehold, leased fee, and fee simple interests, undivided fractional interests, and timeshare intervals for attorneys, landowners and developers, U.S. and Japanese banks, trusts, estates and corporations. Recently, Shelly completed health care market assessments and real estate appraisals for a skilled nursing home, an assisted living project and other health care facilities on Oahu, Kauai, and the island of Hawaii.

In addition Shelly is proficient in research and analysis for litigation. She has worked on two class action lawsuits providing complex and timely analysis to assist in settlement negotiations.

Shelly joined John Child & Company in August 1998 while pursuing a Master in Business Administration degree at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. During her study, she was admitted to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society and graduated from the MBA program With Distinction in December 1998. Shelly obtained her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles where she graduated Cum Laude in 1994.

Education
Master of Business Administration, With Distinction, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1998
    Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, 1997

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Cum Laude, University of California at Los Angeles, 1994
    Golden Key Honor Society, 1994
    Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, 1990
    Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, 1990

Iolani School, Magna Cum Laude, 1990

Professional Association
General Associate Member, Appraisal Institute