Valuation & Fairness Opinions
As an investment bank built around solid equity research, businesses and securities valuation is at the core of everything we do.
Our accredited valuation experts combine a deep understanding of the securities markets, Wall Street quality industry research capabilities, extensive transaction experience, and the most advanced valuation techniques to render credible and well-supported valuations and fairness opinions across a range of industries.
Valuations
Caris & Company renders independent valuations for public and private companies of all sizes and includes valuations of entire enterprises and business segments; controlling and minority interests; securities such as common and preferred stock; derivative securities such as stock options and warrants; and intangible assets and intellectual property for the following purpose:
- Business sales, mergers, and acquisitions
- Shareholder buyouts, buy-ins, and buy-sell agreements
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Private placements and Initial public offerings
- Spin-offs, split-offs, and other divestitures
- Leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and going private transactions
- Financial reporting (SFAS 123R, 141R, and 142R)
- Estate planning and gift tax
- Equity-based compensation and IRC Section 409a
- Corporate restructuring, reorganization, and strategic planning
Fairness Opinions
Caris & Company’s professionals advise business owners, corporate officers, boards of directors, and special committees by providing independent and unbiased opinions regarding the financial fairness of pending transactions.
Caris & Company’s fairness opinions are highly-credible and well-supported. Our fairness opinions are prepared and reviewed by a committee comprised of senior-level investment bankers and accredited valuation experts who combine significant expertise in corporate and shareholder transactions and business and securities valuation. As a result, our opinions are able to withstand scrutiny from shareholders, the SEC, the IRS, and other interested parties.
Through its fairness opinion practice, Caris & Company provides valuable and relevant information and helps business owners, corporate officers, boards of directors, and special committees from either the buy-side or the sell-side fulfill their fiduciary responsibility.
