Valuation & Litigation Advisory Blog

Recent changes to the Ohio Revised Code streamlined the process for relief and clarified the rights of dissenting shareholders of corporations formed in Ohio.  The changes clarify the appropriate standard of value to be applied in dissenting shareholder rights disputes.

Defining Fair Cash Value

One of the items clarified from a valuation perspective was Ohio’s measurement of ‘fair cash value.’  According to Ohio law, ‘fair cash value’ is defined as, “the amount that a willing seller who is under...

Being a firm in the Midwest, we commonly value heavy manufacturing and industrial-based companies.  While we service a wide array of industries in the valuation space, we have noted a growing trend in the region for start-up information technology companies.  Therefore, we are often charged with the task of determining values for these fast-paced companies.

We recently completed the valuation of one such high-growth IT company.  We were engaged to determine the value of equity of the subject...

In the wake of MF Global Holdings LTD’s bankruptcy, clients, regulators, and creditors are all attempting to untangle the defunct investment company’s financial accounts to determine what remains to be distributed to MF Global’s stakeholders.  The billions of dollars lost by MF Global on its investments in European sovereign debt left its clients scrambling to salvage any part of MF Global’s assets to recoup their diminished account balances.  But what about the other secured and...