Gregory Glaab
Greg Glaab specializes in the valuation of business enterprises, intangible assets for purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment studies, and stock compensation expense for financial reporting…
Helen Tan
Helen Tan specializes in the valuation of business enterprises and interests, as well as intangible assets for purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment studies. Prior…
Drew Hill
Drew Hill specializes in business enterprise and equity valuation analyses for financial reporting and tax planning purposes, as well as valuation of intangible assets for…
Michael Whalen
Michael Whalen specializes in the valuation of business enterprises and intangible assets for purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment studies for financial reporting purposes. He…
Rohan Vaidya
Mr. Vaidya specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, and impairment analysis for tax and financial reporting purposes. Prior to joining VRC, Mr. Vaidya…
Matthew Kutz
Mr. Kutz specializes in valuation engagements for public and private companies in support of business combinations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 & 360), stock-based…
Carla S. Nunes
Carla S. Nunes has more than 25 years of experience in valuation, financial reporting, and tax, with deep expertise in cost of capital, market data,…
Nilufer Usta
Nilufer Usta has more than two decades of experience providing valuation and financial advisory support to privately held and publicly traded companies. She has extensive…
Rebecca Layman
Ms. Layman specializes in complex financial instrument and financial reporting valuations with deep expertise across fair value measurements, purchase price allocations, stock-based compensation, and impairment…
Luke Van Horn
Mr. Van Horn is responsible for business development for VRC in the Rocky Mountain region. With over a decade of experience executing and leading valuation…
Luke McCann
Mr. McCann has extensive experience preparing valuations for a variety of purposes, including financial reporting, tax compliance, mergers and acquisitions, ESOPs, and litigation matters. He…
Adam Smith
Mr. Smith has over 25 years of experience in the valuation industry. He has conducted valuations of businesses, intangible assets, derivatives, and more, serving a…
Saloni Bhatt
Ms. Bhatt specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805 and IFRS 3), impairment analyses (ASC 350 and IAS 36), intellectual property valuations,…
Economic Uncertainty and Impairment Testing
As economic shift and market volatility can have an impact on businesses, companies must remain vigilant and consider potential triggering events that may necessitate interim impairment testing.
Evan Lewis
Mr. Lewis has extensive experience providing valuation services to private equity firms and privately held companies. He specializes in fairness and solvency opinions, complex security…
Dominick Dithmer
Mr. Dithmer specializes in business enterprise valuations, intangible asset valuations and impairment analyses for financial reporting and tax purposes. He has worked with clients in…
Pierre Barat
Mr. Barat specializes in valuation engagements for public and private companies in support of business combinations (ASC 805), impairment testing (ASC 350 & 360), stock-based…
Xavier Love
Mr. Love specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805 and IFRS 3), impairment analyses (ASC 350 and IAS 36), intellectual property valuations,…
Molly Shepard
Ms. Shepard specializes in valuations of businesses and intangible assets for a variety of purposes, including fair value measurement, allocation of purchase price, impairment testing,…
Sean Poynton
Mr. Poynton specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment analyses (ASC 350), intellectual property valuations, contingent consideration valuations, and the valuation…
Elvis Lima
Mr. Lima specializes in machinery and equipment and property valuation. He has been providing domestic and international clients (private and public sector) valuations for allocation…
Joe Lee
Mr. Lee specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, and impairment analyses for financial reporting and tax purposes. Prior to VRC, Mr. Lee held…
Connor Barrett
Mr. Barrett specializes in real property valuation for allocation of purchase price, impairment, fresh start accounting, and tax purpose for domestic and international clients. He…
Bryson Miller
Bryson Miller leads VRC’s Dallas office. He has provided numerous business, intangible asset, and equity valuations for a variety of purposes, including fair value measurements…
Talia Pawluk
Ms. Pawluk specializes valuation of business enterprises, equity, and intangible assets, for various purposes such as financial reporting, tax reporting and litigation support. Ms. Pawluk…
Tailor Tanner
Ms. Tanner specializes in valuations for business combinations (ASC 805) and impairment testing (ASC 350) across multiple industry sectors. She also has expertise valuing business…
Jeff Dugo
Jeff Dugo specializes in machinery and equipment valuation for both domestic and international clients. For over 10 years, he has prepared valuations for allocation of…
Lucy Lee
Ms. Lee specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment testing, and securities valuations for financial and reporting and tax purposes. Ms. Lee…
Understanding Tax Amortization Benefit Considerations and the International Impact
Tax amortization benefit rules differ between countries, and they can also change over time.
Sean Woodward
Mr. Woodward specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations (ASC 805), impairment analyses (ASC 350), intellectual property valuations, contingent consideration valuations, and the valuation…
Chris Coleman
Mr. Coleman specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, and impairment analyses for financial reporting and tax purposes. He has extensive experience in most…
Samuel Roman
Samuel Roman specializes in the valuation of business enterprises and intangible assets for purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment studies. Prior to joining Valuation Research,…
Financial Sponsor: Hedge Fund
A hedge fund client held convertible note in a company that restructured outstanding debt. As part of restructure, the note was exchanged for two separate Term Loans.
Kevin Hagemeier
Mr. Hagemeier has significant experience with public and private corporate needs including transactional consulting. He specializes in valuation engagements including intangible assets for business combinations,…
Energy
We were retained by an energy production company whose subsidiary acquired distressed energy assets from an energy & production company. In selecting a valuation methodology, we needed to consider the significant divergence in the enterprise value of the business versus the un-discounted value of the assets given the dramatic drop in commodity prices at the time.
Mercedes Falcon
Ms. Falcon has extensive experience in business valuation for financial and tax purposes, project management and corporate finance. Prior to joining Valuation Research, Ms. Falcon…
Adriana De La Mora
Ms. De La Mora has extensive experience preparing valuations for financial reporting, tax, M&A, and strategic planning purposes utilizing discounted cash flow, guideline company, and…
Consumer Products
A brand valuation that estimated the fair value of intangible assets acquired in a business combination was needed by a personal care product company for the sale of its branded and private label products.
Financial Sponsor: Private Equity
A technology company was purchased by large private equity investor. With the purchase price set, the new entity was capitalized with debt and three different types of equity securities.
Larry Van Kirk
Mr. Van Kirk is a practice leader for closely-held company valuations (estate, FLP, Section 409A) and financial reporting related valuations (ASC 805, ASC 350/360, ASC…
Jason Storbeck
Jason Storbeck specializes in the valuation of business enterprises, intangible assets for purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment studies, and stock compensation expense for financial reporting…
Steven Schuetz
With over 30 years of experience in valuation, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, Steve Schuetz is a Senior Advisor to the firm. Mr. Schuetz…
Charles Sapnas
Mr. Sapnas is a practice leader specializing in the valuation of domestic and international businesses, intangible assets and liabilities for financial reporting and tax compliance…
Anthony Pumphrey
Mr. Pumphrey has nearly two decades of experience in valuation engagements for public and private companies in support of business combinations (ASC 805), impairment testing…
Neal Piper
Mr. Piper specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, impairment analyses and intellectual property valuations for financial reporting and tax purposes. He also focuses…
Doug Peterson
Doug Peterson specializes in the valuation of business enterprises related to mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, shareholder transactions, tax planning and compliance, and financial reporting. He…
PJ Patel
Mr. Patel is co-CEO and senior managing director and is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Patel specializes in the valuation of businesses,…
Wes Nichols
Mr. Nichols specializes in the valuation of machinery and equipment for domestic and international clients. For over 15 years, he has prepared valuations for allocation…
Jane Myung
Ms. Myung co-leads the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of VRC. She specializes in business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations and impairment analyses for financial…
Jason Mutarelli
Mr. Mutarelli specializes in business valuations, valuations of intellectual property, and solvency and fairness opinions. He has served clients in most major industries. Prior to…
Philip Mastil
Mr. Mastil specializes in the valuation of businesses and assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes. In particular, he focuses on the valuation of intellectual…
Francis Mainville
Mr. Mainville specializes in the valuation of complex securities such as options, warrants, preferred and common stock in privately-held companies, management incentive plans (including those…
Edward Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton specializes in the valuation of businesses and assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes. In particular, he focuses on the valuation of intellectual…
Jim Budyak
Mr. Budyak has over 40 years of valuation experience and specializes in allocation of purchase price engagements, fairness and solvency opinions, bankruptcies and restructurings, and…
Goodwill Impairment
Annual impairment testing services supporting ASC 350 compliance, including underlying assets associated with reporting units
Manufacturing
An industrial property consisting of various manufacturing machinery & equipment was a candidate for an ad valorem tax reduction.
Pharmaceuticals
In order to comply with Accounting Standards Codification 815 (ASC 815), an early stage pharmaceutical company asked VRC to analyze the entire convertible callable note and determine the fair market value of each of the embedded derivatives.
Financial Sponsor: Hedge Fund
A shareholder of a closely-held hedge fund was not receiving the appropriate level of compensation per agreement with the controlling interest shareholder.
Healthcare
Property taxes were levied on only real property portion of a hospital, key to analysis was separating the value of the business ops from that of real property.
Brands: Food & Beverage
A leading manufacturer of branded food products engaged VRC to estimate the fair value of certain intangible assets acquired in a business combination.
Consumer Products
A large multinational consumer products company acquired a South American company operating in the same space. VRC was engaged to estimate the value of the PP&E and intangible assets for financial reporting purposes.
Chemical
A leading international producer of nitrogen products acquires a nitrogen manufacturing company requiring a valuation for allocation of purchase price according to ASC 805.
Telecommunication
We were retained by a leading provider of wireless messaging and information services to provide various valuation services for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.