Helping lawyers understand business valuation since 1995
Many lawyers went to law school because of a love of language. But your clients who own businesses require that you understand finance, accounting, and business valuation to protect their interests. That’s where Business Valuation Resources comes in.
Need to understand the essentials of business financial management and value? There’s only one current place to turn—the 2011/2012 Edition of Brian Brinig’s Finance & Accounting for Lawyers.
Need to find the precedential case law where private company value has been disputed now? Appraisers and attorneys alike turn to the exclusive BVLaw collection of 3,000+ cases and case abstracts concerning economic damages, lost profits, estate and gift tax, divorce, shareholder repression, partnership dissolution, securities litigation—and more.
Or, need a financial expert? BVR’s BV Expert Directory includes only qualified business valuation practitioners, financial experts and expert witnesses.
Oracle has offered to drop its patent charges against Google and rely only on copyright infringement, if the court will hear the copyright complaints quickly. In a filing made January 17, Oracle lays out three proposals to move the case forward: Orac...Read More
Back in 2001, it must have seemed more than reasonable to provide investors an exit within 10 years. That’s what Morgan Joseph Holdings, an investment bank, promised its preferred stockholders in its Certificate of Incorporation: that in 10 years—on ...Read More
The general rule in construction contract cases is to measure lost profits damages at the time of the breach, without considering subsequent events—including (in the latest cases) the collapse of the real estate market. Yet, some courts allow experts...Read More
Here’s a sampling of cases we’ve added to BVLaw in the last month: U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Cold Spring Granite Co., 788 N.W.2d 160; 2010 Minn. App. LEXIS 142 (Sept. 14, 2010) Appellate court affirms that, absent showing of fraud, a board’s determination o...Read More
Estate of Liljestrand v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2011-259; 2011 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 251 (Nov. 2, 2011) Here’s yet another case that proves the simple point that hiring an accredited appraiser can make a huge difference in estate planning. After retir...Read More
Pure Power Boot Camp v. Warrior Fitness Boot Camp, 2011 WL 4035751 (S.D. N.Y.) (Sept. 12, 2011) While working as a Wall Street trader, the plaintiff got inspired to start her own physical fitness studio, based on a military boot camp. She visited For...Read More
New academic research suggests that there may be more behind a Tax Court estate tax valuation than simply “splitting the baby,” and it’s not just the increasing sophistication of the court, counsel, and BV experts. Using models from prior literature ...Read More
Most courts have expected expert witnesses to provide documents “comparables” when calculating the value of a business in dispute. So it’s noteworthy that a source which averages “rules of thumb” multiples by industry ...Read More
To keep up with this important precedent from the “Supreme Court” of corporation law, don’t miss Delaware Chancery Roundtable: Views from the Bench, Council & Witness Stand. In this special two-hour webinar, Neil Beaton (Grant Thornton) and Step...Read More
Here’s a sampling of new cases where issues of business valuation, damages calculations, or other analyses by financial experts and business appraisers was crucial to the outcome. The digests and court opinions of all such cases are all available a...Read More
