Acquisitions (and the prices paid for them) are often rationalized on the basis that the combined enterprise will be more valuable than the two businesses were separately. For both the business appraiser tasked with quantifying the potential synergy value in a business combination and the management team tasked with achieving those synergies, verifying and quantifying this potential value creates a unique set of challenges. In Something From Nothing? Valuing Synergies in Acquisitions and Litigation, expert appraisers Jack Schwager and Brent Miller discuss the identification, quantification, and assessment of synergies and the impact that analysis can have on acquisition decisions and litigation outcomes.