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A highlight at the 2015 AICPA forensic and valuation services conference in Las Vegas was “Valuation in Tax,” a panel in which several leading minds on taxation discussed hot topics in the valuation area. The star of the illustrious gathering was Jud...Read More
Settele v. Settele, 2015 Ohio App. LEXIS 3629 (Sept. 15, 2015) Is there more to say about double dipping? Over the past year, the Ohio Court of Appeals repeatedly discussed the issue in divorce cases, limiting the double dip rule to the context of in...Read More
Moore v. Moore, 2015 S.C., LEXIS 343 (Oct. 7, 2015) What keeps family courts up at night? According to the South Carolina Supreme Court, it’s the issue of goodwill. Judges on the high court may have experienced sleepless nights themselves recently in...Read More
Guardian Energy, LLC v. County of Waseca, 2015 Minn. LEXIS 437 (Aug. 12, 2015) Who gets to decide how to perform an external obsolescence (EO) analysis? This was the crux of a tax assessment dispute that involved a special purpose property and recent...Read More
Rowe v. DPI Specialty Foods, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 110605 (Aug. 19, 2015) How does a damages expert handle the issue of causation? A recent Daubert case illustrates how easily this question can trip up even a seasoned valuator. The trial court’s resp...Read More
In re Dole Food Co., 2015 Del. Ch. LEXIS 223 (Aug. 27, 2015) The Delaware Court of Chancery recently found much to praise in the comportment of the banker serving as financial advisor in the highly contested Dole Food take-private merger. It noted th...Read More
Sieber v. Sieber, 2015 Ohio App. LEXIS 2256 (June 15, 2015) Size is only the beginning of the analysis. That’s the message the Ohio Court of Appeals recently sent regarding the use of a lack of control discount where the owner spouse held a small int...Read More
Tri County Wholesale Distributors v. Labatt USA Operating Co., LLC, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81914 (June 24, 2015) Discounted cash flow versus comparable transaction analysis. A federal court recently ruled on how to determine the “diminished value” of ...Read More
Owen v. Cannon, 2015 Del. Ch. LEXIS 165 (June 17, 2015) A recent decision from the new Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery has captured the attention of valuators for at least two reasons: the court’s adoption of the discounted cash fl...Read More
Fox v. CDx Holdings, 2015 Del. Ch. LEXIS 194 (July 28, 2015) Why would a reputable financial firm abandon its standard practices and risk producing a valuation so misleading and erroneous that the Delaware Court of Chancery recently described it as a...Read More
