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Sales & Divestitures Acquisition Advisory Private Placements Valuation & Fairness Opinions Pre-Sale Consulting

Valuation & Fairness Opinions . Valuations and fairness opinions are a routine part of the mergers and acquisitions process but there are several other reasons for performing a business valuation. These reasons include: Liquidation & insolvency analyses Charitable Contributions Intitial Public Offerings (IPO's) Obtaining Financing Succession Planning Gifting to family members Purchase price allocations Stock Option and ESOP plans Corporate sales & divestitures Joint venture agreements Dispute avoidance/resolution Estate planning & tax filing Additionally, an effective use of a business valuation is as a tool to assist management in their understanding of company strengths and weaknesses which impact the company’s value. LockeBridge provides extensive presale consulting services which utilize valuation analysis as such a tool.

Our advisors analyze all transactions utilizing multiple valuation methods including income, market and asset based approaches.  Utilizing multiple valuation methods is a more comprehensive approach often times resulting in higher valuations.