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Fair Value Decision Caps Decade-Long Dispute Over Family-Owned Real Estate Holding Companies

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About 40 years ago, a son and his mother first teamed up to invest in purchasing and managing over a dozen buildings in New York through 4 co-owned entities, each owned on a 50/50 basis. Fast forward several decades and the...more

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Post-Valuation Date Distributions: Should They Be Credited Against Fair Value Awards?

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In my business divorce travels occasionally I encounter instances in which shareholder distributions are made in the period between the valuation date for an elective buyout of a minority shareholder who sued for dissolution...more

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Valuation Considerations in Reverse Mergers

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The concept of a reverse merger, in short, holds that a privately held company acquires a publicly traded company. In so doing, the private company can gain access to public equity markets without going through the lengthy...more

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Applying Dell and DFC, Delaware Court Of Chancery Finds "Fair Value" Is Deal Price Less Synergies In Appraisal Action

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On July 30, 2018, Chancellor Andre Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery determined that the deal price minus synergies was the best evidence of the fair value of Solera Holdings, Inc. (“Solera”) in an appraisal action...more

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Delaware Court Of Chancery Reaffirms Decision That "Fair Value" For Appraisal Was The Unaffected Market Price, Based On Dell And...

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On May 21, 2018, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery reaffirmed the Court’s earlier ruling that the best evidence of the fair value of Aruba Networks, Inc. (“Aruba”) for purposes of appraisal in...more

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Delaware Chancery Court Rulings Address Valuation and Insolvency Disputes

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The steady flow and scholarly character of Delaware Chancery Court opinions in company valuation contests provide an important resource and learning tool for business divorce practitioners, appraisers, and judges in New York...more

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Delaware Supreme Court Decision Addresses Critical "Fair Value" Issues in Appraisal Litigation

On August 1, 2017, the Delaware Supreme Court issued an en banc opinion in DFC Global Corporation v. Muirfield Value Partners, L.P., et al., reversing the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision regarding the fair value of DFC...more

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Episode 1: Chris Mercer Interview on Marketability Discount: Part 1

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The premiere episode of Business Divorce Roundtable starts out with a bang or, more accurately, Part One of a two-part interview with one of the nation’s leading business appraisers, Chris Mercer, discussing the controversy...more

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Episode 11: Mediating Business Valuation Disputes: Conversation with Arthur Rosenbloom

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Mediation has grown in popularity as a means of resolving legal disputes in lockstep with the rising costs and delays attendant to litigation and arbitration, including business divorce cases. This episode features an...more

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