The valuation of a business is required in a wide variety of circumstances, including business acquisitions, mergers or joint ventures, business sale, litigation, exiting minority or majority shareholders, introduction of new shareholders and employee shareholding incentivisation.

Business valuation is often described as an art rather than a science. While valuation is difficult, there are rules, although these rules are imprecise and require a large amount of experience to apply. Many factors may influence the end result; business activities, economic climate, location, goodwill, management structure, tax considerations and even the purpose of the valuation.

We are experienced in all methods used in valuing a business and in a wide variety of industry sectors. We are founder members of the unique PERDa database (www.perda.co.uk) which tracks details of transactions around Europe for the last five years, allowing us to provide accurate comparative information of the current valuations of private businesses in many diverse sectors. This allows us to provide the best advice to both buyers and sellers on the value of their own or targeted businesses.

We recognise that providing a valuation is usually meeting only part of a client's needs, so our valuation expertise is often linked with other services, including corporate finance, forensic accounting or tax.