Valuation of Business and Securities

Our valuation group has extensive experience using standard valuation methodologies such as Discounted Cash Flow, Market Multiple, Comparable Transaction, Economic Value Added as well as complex Monte Carlo simulation, real option, and derivative security valuation methodologies.  

The group consists of established and respected graduates and professors from The University of Chicago, Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, University of Virginia, and other premier academic institutions.  

Issues related to valuation naturally permeate many of our engagements in other practice areas (e.g., mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, damages, securities valuation, real estate). In some of our engagements, business and/or security valuation is the primary issue. Examples would be engagements related to fraudulent conveyance, solvency/bankruptcy, the value of minority shareholder interests, the appraisal value of a company in a merger or acquisition, estate and tax valuation, transfer pricing valuation, valuation of companies and parts of companies – including valuing synergies/efficiencies and intangible assets. 

We have worked for both defendants and plaintiffs in industries such as computer hardware and software, credit card and credit card security, banking, securities companies, cameras and film, retail of various types, automobile, real estate investment funds, airline, steel, cosmetics, energy, railroad, online education, pharmaceutical, heavy industrial equipment, telecommunications, chemical, and consumer products. We have worked for companies such as Allied Signal, Honeywell, Florida Progress Corporation, National Education Training Group, Inc., Technicolor, and Zixit Corporation. We have worked for shareholders against such companies as DaimlerChrysler Securities Litigation and Emerging Communications, Inc., and for the U.S. Department of Justice.