We advise closely held companies and partnerships throughout California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii to identify the important steps and elements of transactions they are considering or engaging in. Our experience and standards make Valuation Professionals the choice for:

• Purchase or sale of closely held businesses or sale of business interests

• Advising corporate board of directors on pending or contemplated transactions, including business mergers, company acquisitions or sale of divisions or subsidiaries

• Planning of management buyouts

• Bank financing

• Financial restructuring and re-capitalization

• Consulting concerning reasonableness of offers to purchase

Our primary objective is to assist our clients in achieving their long-term business and personal goals. Whether you want to merge with another company, purchase a business, or sell a business, you need to know its value. Many factors are involved in this determination, which need to be addressed in order for you to maximize your investment.

Selling or buying a business is a complicated process that involves many difficult decisions and coordination with other professionals such as brokers, attorneys, and bankers. It is important to have a thorough valuation of the business before beginning.

Mergers and acquisitions often open up new business opportunities that increase the value of the company and bring exciting new changes as well. Although business mergers and company acquisitions are similar, as they are both a combining of two companies, they are not the same thing. Business mergers are a mutually desired combining of two companies. The new, larger company has a large increase in its value and everyone benefits. In company acquisitions, one company takes over another. It is not necessarily a mutual negotiation where everyone wins. Although the outcome for the new company is the same, the method of combining the companies is not.

A formal valuation of the business for both the buyer and seller is a vital component for any proposed transaction. It is important to realize that valuation is not an exact science, and pure valuation issues typically will not drive the terms and pricing of the transaction.

Strategic or synergistic value becomes very significant in a merger and acquisition transaction.

This value is a blend between value computed under traditional valuation methodologies and value determined based on the acquirer’s intuitive feeling and knowledge of the cost to create product or technology.

Contact us about our business valuation services for mergers and acquisitions.

“As a business attorney, I need expert valuation information from time to time to assist clients in their business transactions. Valuation Professionals has consistently been an excellent resource in providing quick and relevant valuation information. They provide access at a reasonable cost to quality valuation databases and other valuation sources and then apply their extensive knowledge to that information to make it more useful and relevant to me and my client.”

— Roger L. Neu, Inc., The M&A Law Firm