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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.
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The bankruptcy process is not always well understood from a practical level by those making business decisions and evaluating strategic alternatives. Business Valuation and Bankruptcy helps bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers, accountants dealing wi...Read More
In high-conflict divorce cases, there will always be some business owners who would rather deplete their net worth by transferring assets to their children (or a new spouse) to avoid paying their exes, then claim “drastically changed circumstances” p...Read More
Business Valuation Resources offers hundreds of free resources on how to conduct and defend business valuations. One of the top-five most popular in May so far has been a checklist from Ron Seigneur, a CPA with years of leadership in the Associatio...Read More
During the 1990s, the decedent executed a will that made specific gifts of real estate and stock to each of her three grown children, dividing any residual equally among them. Over time, the value of the bequests changed, and the assets became expose...Read More
The Financial Services Institute and Financial Services Roundtable are pressuring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to release a “progress report” on its redrafting of the rule that would redefine “fiduciary” under the Employee Retirement Income Sec...Read More
In recent remarks to the ABA Section of IP Law, Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader expounded on the E-Discovery Model Order, unveiled last fall by the Federal Circuit’s advisory council, and recently adopted by the federal district court for t...Read More
The natural gas reserves were still in the ground in Bulgaria when the defendant breached the contract, and their value could range from as low as $32 million to well over $100 million for a 100% interest, according to the plaintiff’s valuation exper...Read More
In a big win for the taxpayer—and for estate and gift lawyers—the Tax Court resoundingly rejected the IRS’s three arguments against defined value clauses, even in cases involving interfamily transfers. In this new decision, the court also provided wh...Read More
BVLaw Alert has just posted an article written by Shannon Pratt (SPV), the “grandfather” of the modern business valuation profession, that guides attorneys and their experts on how to best use economic data in financial analysis reports prepared for ...Read More
Massachusetts first established the fair value standard in divorce with Bernier v. Bernier—a case that has since become familiar to appraisers across the country for its ultimate holding that the value of a closely held corporation should not be “unf...Read More
