Business Valuations

Our Business Valuations Team delivers on the promise of helping you better understand and optimize the value of your business.

The value of your business is the centerpiece of your personal well being, financial security and estate planning considerations. Having an accurate business valuation conducted is essential if you wish to maximize the value of your investment.

Business valuations can be necessary in a variety of circumstances including divorce or domestic relations proceedings. Taking the step of preparing a business valuation increases your ability to successfully transition ownership and control to other family member or to outsiders, and at the same time, minimize income, estate and gift taxes.

When to Consider a Business Valuation

• Purchases and Sales of Businesses
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Estate and Gift Tax Planning
• Business Succession Planning
• Domestic Relations and Divorce Proceedings
• Divestitures and Redemptions of Shareholder, Partner and Member Interests
• Shareholder and Partner Buy-Sell Agreements
• Goodwill Impairment Analysis

Our Team

Regardless of the circumstance for which the valuation must take place, our team follows a process that includes:

• Thorough analysis of a business’s historical and projected financial performance
• Careful study of the qualitative and quantitative factors unique to the business
• Review of the industry within which the business operates

Our professionals have real life experience with the valuation process. Our team has participated in valuing, purchasing and selling hundreds of businesses valued in excess of a billion dollars.

Our valuation team members are a part of the American, Ohio State and Cleveland Bar Associations, as well as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts.

For help establishing a valuation of your business, call Bob Ranallo at 440-449-6800.

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