Chad Rucker

SEC proposes the necessity of fairness opinions.

Related-party transactions between PE funds and their portfolio companies are fraught with the potential to create issues between limited partners. Fairness opinions can forestall such conflicts.

Fairness opinions have a critical role in mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, yet sometimes public and private companies might overlook the importance.

VRC’s Opinion Practice Group experts answer the top questions asked about fairness opinions for financial transactions.

If your organization is considering a merger, acquisition, or disposition, the time is now to seek out the services of an independent, third-party opinion provider.

Join Chad Rucker, esteemed faculty member of the PLI, as he chairs this session discussing how financial statements provide key information on the financial performance of companies and are the language of business.

Rucker’s presentation “What is it Worth? Valuations” will address the concept of value, historical financial analysis, valuation approaches and a case study that walks through a valuation report.

Financial statements provide key information on the financial performance of companies and are the language of business. Join Chad Rucker, esteemed faculty member of the PLI, as he chairs this session.

A discussion on key relevant accounting and financial reporting implications related to potential asset impairments, the assessment of a company’s going concern conclusions, and stock option trends and activities, all of which are getting heightened levels of attention.

The SEC recently announced, as a response to COVID-19, they will provide temporary exemptions to BDCs to issue and sell senior securities.

In the Jan-Feb 2019 issue of Deal Lawyers, Chad Rucker focuses on strategies for dealing with conflicts that may exist when a fairness opinion provider also receives an M&A success fee.

Fairness opinions provide substantial benefits – if the opinion process is performed correctly.

Boards of directors can improve the likelihood of receiving a more defendable fairness opinion by making specific inquiries of their opinion provider.