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Valuing Sole Proprietorships
Sole proprietorships often feature a unique blend of familiar valuation challenges, combining a very small business valuation with enigmatic considerations of key-person discounts and personal goodwill allocations, among others. In Valuing Sole Proprietorships, BV hall of famer Ron Seigneur and Brenda Clarke discuss how these all too familiar businesses can create some of the most perilous valuation assignments and what appraisers can do to overcome the obstacles they pose.
Stark Differences from the Inside Out: Two Key Responders Discuss The Final Stark Regulations for FMV and Commercial Reasonableness
The Stark regulations have been updated. What has changed and how does it impact value? Mark Dietrich and Tim Smith were two major contributors of public comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) for the updated Stark regulations with over 100 pages of newly written material that was influential in the development of the final regulatory definitions for FMV and commercial reasonableness. In addition, they included over a dozen chapters from the BVR/AHLA ...
Hospital Valuations: Issues and Perspectives
As consolidation trends continue in the healthcare sector, hospitals are functioning as both acquirer and acquiree in a multitude of transactions and joint ventures. For the business appraiser, a thorough understanding of these trends is crucial to the appraisal of hospitals. Healthcare valuation experts Don Barbo and John Meindl provide an in-depth perspective into hospital valuations and share their insights on the current state of the hospital industry. An extensive overview of hospital transaction activity ...
Advanced Workshop on Monte Carlo: From Classroom to Boardroom to Courtroom
Get a fresh take on Monte Carlo simulations with the perfect combination of the practical and the theoretical from BVR’s four-hour advanced web workshop, Monte Carlo: From Classroom to Boardroom to Courtroom. Expert intellectual property appraiser Mike Pellegrino will lay the foundation by addressing the origins and theory of Monte Carlo with an emphasis on how to apply it in your valuations. He’ll be joined by Dave MacAdam, who will cover real-world examples from his ...
Valuing Pharmacies
Whether independent, chain, or mail-order, the pharmacies that make up the tail end of the prescription drug distribution chain are part of a rapidly changing marketplace. At the periphery of the healthcare industry, pharmacies operate according to both the market conditions dictated by healthcare economics and regulation and the performance and ingenuity of their pharmaceutical suppliers. In Part 8 of BVR's 2013 Online Symposium on Healthcare Valuation, James Lloyd and Jeff Milam examine the valuation ...
Valuing Dental Practices
Love them or fear them, every appraiser knows a dentist and, chances are, they've appraised a dental practice. On one hand, with more than 150,000 dentists practicing a number of specialties in the United States alone, there is valuation work to be had. Yet, on the other, capital expenses, goodwill considerations, and insurance requirements—both as a payer and provider—dentistry valuations present numerous challenges to the appraisal process. In Valuing Dental Practices, Part 6 of BVR's Online ...
Valuing Professional Practices
Valuing Professional Practices Teleconference Handbook April 2, 2009 Moderator: Stuart Weiss, CPA/ABV, MBA Panelists: Kevin Yeanoplos, CPA/ABV, ASA, amd Ron Seigneur, MBA, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA Please note: This Handbook does not qualify for self study ...
In re Tesla Motors Stockholder Litig.
At issue was a 2016 acquisition of Solar City Corp. by Tesla. Some Tesla shareholders claimed that Musk caused Tesla to overpay for Solar through his alleged domination and control of Tesla’s board. The primary focus of the shareholders was that Solar was insolvent at the time of the acquisition. The court applied the “entire fairness” standard. The Court of Chancery found the acquisition to be “entirely fair.” The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery decision.
In re Rural Metro Corp. Stockholders Litigation
Financial advisor aided and abetted directors’ breach of fiduciary duty by causing ill-timed, below-fair-value sale of the company based on manipulated valuation analysis, including false and material information related to precedent transaction analyses.
American Capital Corporation v. United States
In this extensive case arising from the enactment of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act, Pub. L. No. 101-73, 103 Stat. 183 (1989) (FIRREA) in response to the savings and loan crisis of the 80's, involving a breach of contract ...