Understanding Business Valuation Reports: A Guide for Legal Professionals

This book is intended to provide legal professionals with a sound understanding of the principles, methodologies, rates of return, and other elements that factor into the determination of fair market value for a business or an equity interest therein. This book is not overly technical. Rather, it is designed to help the reader of a valuation report understand how the value conclusions were developed, assess the reasonableness of those conclusions, and identify common errors. This book has broad application in terms of valuations that are required in the context of shareholder disputes, matrimonial disputes, income tax matters, fairness opinions, and other circumstances where the value of a business or an equity interest must be determined.