Insights and Intel on the Cannabis Industry
Join Ryan Cram and Ron Seigneur for a lively discussion of the current and emerging landscape for business valuation analysts and other professional advisors to the cannabis sector with a focus on the risks and rewards of being involved in the cannabis industry drawing on over 20 combined years of industry experience working marijuana and hemp/CBD clients throughout the country, both large and small. Explore the unique nuances associated with business and intellectual property appraisal ...
Reasonable Compensation for Closely Held Businesses + RCReports Demo
Determining reasonable compensation for closely held small and medium-sized businesses is not a magical or mysterious process. In fact, it is a straight forward process that relies on a basic understanding of the three different methods for determining reasonable compensation and when and where they apply. Join Stephen Kirkland and Paul Hamann for this rewarding and rich session. Practitioners armed with this knowledge and the proper tools can easily determine reasonable compensation for any company.
Trial Court’s Physician Practice Valuation Lacks Factual Basis
Goodwill, excess earnings method, market-based approach, capitalization rate, multiple, expert testimony, professional corporation, professional practice, valuation methods ...
Abedi v. Abedi
Court of Appeal says trial court’s valuation of husband’s endodontic practice was arbitrary where trial court adopted valuation methods husband’s experts proposed but substituted key elements of their analyses with court’s own unsubstantiated figures.
Court Dismisses S Corp Tax Argument in Fair Value Buyout
In statutory fair value proceeding, court adopts income-based approach reconciling key differences in expert analyses regarding historical earnings period, tax rates, and normalization for intercompany transactions; court rejects market analysis.
Market Data Approach ‘Particularly Unsuitable’ to Valuing Feature Film
Court rejects expert’s movie valuation based on percentage of cost of making it; market data approach is “particularly unsuitable” because simply averaging price of films and cost to create them does not yield information about value of particular film.
Matter of Digeser v. Flach
Income approach, capitalization rate, expert testimony, valuation methods, fair value, minority oppression, statutory appraisal, S corporation, C corporation, normalization, market-based approach, comparable transactions ...
Court Dismisses S Corp Tax Argument in Fair Value Buyout
In statutory fair value proceeding, court adopts income-based approach reconciling key differences in expert analyses regarding historical earnings period, tax rates, and normalization for intercompany transactions; court rejects market analysis.
Holder v. Howe
Court rejects expert’s movie valuation based on percentage of cost of making it; market data approach is “particularly unsuitable” because simply averaging price of films and cost to create them does not yield information about value of particular film.
Market Data Approach ‘Particularly Unsuitable’ to Valuing Feature Film
Court rejects expert’s movie valuation based on percentage of cost of making it; market data approach is “particularly unsuitable” because simply averaging price of films and cost to create them does not yield information about value of particular film.
Court Disapproves of Nonexpert Valuation of Key Marital Asset
Appeals court rejects trial court’s valuation of husband’s fitness training company noting trial court lacked necessary financial evidence as well as testimony from experts; appeals court remands requesting “adequate valuation,” excluding goodwill.
Lacoste v. Lacoste
Appeals court rejects trial court’s valuation of husband’s fitness training company noting trial court lacked necessary financial evidence as well as testimony from experts; appeals court remands requesting “adequate valuation,” excluding goodwill.
Court Disapproves of Nonexpert Valuation of Key Marital Asset
Appeals court rejects trial court’s valuation of husband’s fitness training company noting trial court lacked necessary financial evidence as well as testimony from experts; appeals court remands requesting “adequate valuation,” excluding goodwill.
Court admits expert's anti-'Georgia-Pacific' royalty calculation
There is no absolute requirement to develop a reasonable royalty based on the Georgia-Pacific framework. That's the takeaway from a Daubert ruling in which the court denied the defendant's motion to preclude the testimony of the opposing damages expert, who determined a reasonable royalty based on market data instead of the customary Georgia-Pacific factors.
‘Hybrid’ Approach to Quantify Loss of Beer Franchise Contracts
Court uses hybrid approach to quantify diminished value in business resulting from franchisees’ loss of beer brands; it means determining FMV of franchise contracts by way of DCF and adding loss in value of other assets directly related to loss of brands.
Tri Cnty. Wholesale Distribs. v. Labatt USA Operating Co. LLC
Court uses hybrid approach to quantify diminished value in business resulting from franchisees’ loss of beer brands; it means determining FMV of franchise contracts by way of DCF and adding loss in value of other assets directly related to loss of brands.
Court Finds Facts Back Expert’s Value-Per-Subscriber Metric
Court finds trust failed to prove insolvency; its expert’s use of DCF alone was inappropriate where there were no cash flow projections untainted by fraud, but competing expert’s market-based approach and value per subscriber analysis were solid.
Adelphia Recovery Trust v. FPL Group, Inc. (In re Adelphia Corp.)
Court finds trust failed to prove insolvency; its expert’s use of DCF alone was inappropriate where there were no cash flow projections untainted by fraud, but competing expert’s market-based approach and value per subscriber analysis were solid.