Business Valuation Resources, LLC is the premier publisher in all areas of business valuation, including divorce, tax, bankruptcy, lost profits, shareholder disputes, intellectual property, stock options, general commercial, and other related matters.
BVR locates, indexes and analyzes the cases that have won in the courtroom—and the boardroom—for the last 15 years, and we work with the best financial expert witnesses in North America.
Business appraisers and financial experts rely on a number of databases of private company transactions. The IBA database is one such product...but it has a large weakness: brokers and advisors are paid directly to submit dat...Read More
One of the best answers litigator Chuck Rettig has heard to cross-examination about subsequent events came from valuation expert Chris Mercer. Chris recounts a question address to an appraiser asking why he hadn’t considered factors tha...Read More
During the divorce of the California Devries, a court-appointed forensic accountant valued the husband’s construction business under the excess earnings and capitaliza...Read More
Perhaps nothing in business valuation is more controversial than the discount for lack of marketability (DLOM).This one adjustment can have a sizable impact on clients' tax obligations. So, naturally, one question frequently lingers in...Read More
When the Talbots Company went public in 1993, it loaned $103 million to a subsidiary to purchase the Talbots trademark and collect royalties, permittin...Read More
That’s the summary of comments from the panel of “Big 4” auditors at the ASA Fair Value Summit, held November 13th in the San Francisco offices of KMPG. Th...Read More
Business Valuation Resources just updated Pratt’s Stats®, our premier database of sold private company sales, with an additional 81 deals. The database now includes...Read More
First, the federal district court found the defendants breached a twenty-year lease for a nursing home facility and owed the plaintiff/landlord over $370,000 in back rent. The landlord also claimed over $10 million in lost future payments, and presen...Read More
Lawyers we just interviewed stress credibility first and foremost, ,but they also highlight creativity, communication skills, and commitment. Good work is not e...Read More
Jim Alerding (another longtime Hall of Famer from the AICPA) points out that, if you’re confused about personal goodwill, just think of the quarterback of his h...Read More
As the American Home Mortgage case shows, an unprecedented wave of impaired and distressed business valuations is about to flood the legal and economic landscape. Say...Read More
If there was the major theme at some of the major BV meetings where lawyers and their financial expert witnesses met recently—Boston (ASA), San Diego (USD Tax Conferen...Read More
Another source forecasts the much-predicted spike in securities and corporate litigation around business valuation. The latest results from Fulbright & Jaworski LLP's sixth annual Litigation Trends Survey have arrived—and 42% of corporate counsel...Read More
The Murphy Oil Corp. grew from a small, family owned business into a multinational conglomerate, with over $2 billion in market cap. During the 1990s, the CEO and son of the founder set out to preserve his holdings and his investment philosophy for t...Read More
Chris Mercer (Mercer Capital, Memphis) and David Adams (Adams Capital, Atlanta), two leading business valuation experts, spoke to the Southern Federal Tax Institute in Atlanta last week. Joining them were David Aughtry and Hale Sheppard, both local t...Read More
The IMD first appeared in Delaware Chancery cases in 1992 and 1995, but didn’t become entrenched until LeBeau v. M.G. Bancorporation (1998 Del. Ch. LEXIS 9), when the...Read More
