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This past week I presented to a group of business owners on the importance of having a professional business valuation.  In addition to many situations where an is required (e.g. estate freeze, shareholder or matrimonial dispute litigation, purchase or sale of business, etc.), a business valuation can also be a very powerful planning tool.
Speaking as a professional b...

You have now completed your review of a by considering:

  • The type of valuation report;
  • The author’s credentials and qualifications;
  • Any scope limitations underlying the conclusions;
  • The valuation approach(es) adopted;
  • The reasonableness of the projected cash flows or historical normalization items;
  • The reasonableness of the discount rate, capitalization rate or valuation multiplier;
  • Any redund...

10-steps-to-critiquing-an-expert-company-valuation-report-part-i

Chartered Business Valuators (CBVs) are frequently retained as independent experts in commercial, shareholder or matrimonial disputes to prepare ; as well as review an opposing expert’s report.  This independent and objective assistance is intended to help facilitate a settlement and/or assist a trier of fact render a decision in court.  As a bu...

how-business-valuations-support-litigation-inform-court-decisions

Often, in legal proceedings involving business disputes in Toronto and across Ontario, key issues arise, such as financial loss or the value of a business - figures that can differ and be inherently arrived at differently, depending on the that prepared the report. As a result, court proceedings may call two financial experts to present different expert opinions, testifying on the value of the business in question, or the fi...

3-methods-for-deriving-lost-profits-resulting-from-business-disputes

Disputes in businesses often result in legal proceedings in which a claim is made. These claims may vary depending on the nature of the complaint or the breach that necessitates them, but at their core are economic damage quantifications or lost profits that resulted from the dispute. In providing to business owners and lawyers, business valuators work to provide the party they are c...

estimating-costs-when-quantifying-lost-profits-in-commercial-litigation

When providing , Chartered Business Valuators (CBVs), are tasked with estimating the revenues that would have been generated but for the alleged breach and the costs that would have been incurred to generate those lost revenues as well as any increased overhead costs incurred as a result of the alleged breach. Previously, methodologies for establishing causation and estimating costs ...

how-litigation-support-helps-facilitate-settlements-in-commercial-disputes

Relationships can break down over time. Many of us have experienced this with a friend, spouse or business partner. Disputes between two or more companies are also very common. Whether the dispute has arisen due to a breach of contract, breach of tender, breach of fiduciary duty, patent infringement, estate disputes, business interruption, product liability, shareholder dispute or any other commercial dispute, it is in everyone's best interest to seek a swift reso...

using-business-valuation-to-avoid-shareholder-disputes-business-valuation-gta

Business ownership is complicated, particularly when there are a number of shareholders. The odds of disagreement and conflict can be very high. When shareholder relationships break down there should be a mechanism in place for dealing with the dispute and for enabling one or more of the shareholders to exit the business in a pre-determined manner. This mechanism should include agreement among the shareholders to obtain and review, on an annual basis, an independe...

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