DFC Global Corp. v. Muirfield Value Partners, L.P. (II)
State Supreme Court declines to create presumption for appraisal actions that deal price is best indicator of value when merger was arm’s-length transaction, but court finds Chancery’s valuation approach lacked support in record and requires revaluation.
High Court Finds Chancery’s Weighting of Values Unexplained and Inexplicable
State Supreme Court declines to create presumption for appraisal actions that deal price is best indicator of value when merger was arm’s-length transaction, but court finds Chancery’s valuation approach lacked support in record and requires revaluation.
Chancery achieves fair value with three imperfect valuation techniques
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Perhaps Chancellor Bouchard thought of Aristotle when he recently ruled in a statutory appraisal action that, even though the results of three common valuation techniques were unreliable indicators of value, in combination they established fair value.
High Company-Specific Risk Adjustment Distorts Valuation
In a buyout case, the court finds that, in reselling company, defendants undervalued rollover equity interest by double counting risks specific to the company in order to avoid triggering windfall provision in prior sales agreement favorable to plaintiff.
Charron v. Sallyport Global Holdings, Inc.
In a buyout case, the court finds that, in reselling company, defendants undervalued rollover equity interest by double counting risks specific to the company in order to avoid triggering windfall provision in prior sales agreement favorable to plaintiff.
Expert insights on valuation and bankruptcy
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A treatise on strategic value
The primary difference between this and other valuation books is its emphasis on strategic value, the value to the party to whom the business is most valuable. It discusses how to build strategic value, how to measure strategic value, and how to find and deal with a strategic buyer.
Private equity panel says market valuation multiples are down
The consensus of a panel of four private-equity partners at the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA) in Chicago, July 19, was that private equity funds are awash in capital to invest, but market value multiples are down from a year ago, and lenders have reduced tolerable debt-to-equity ratios for new loans. Thus, in spite of lower interest rates, the overall cost of capital is up from a year ago.
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