Independent Analysis of Business Value Loss
The Valuation Group provides lost profits analysis in commercial disputes, breach of contract matters, business interruption claims, franchise disputes, intellectual property matters, shareholder conflicts, and other cases involving alleged lost income or impaired earnings.
Our work supports attorneys, business owners, insurers, claims professionals, mediators, arbitrators, and advisory teams that need a documented analysis of claimed financial loss.
Why The Valuation Group
The Valuation Group provides lost business value analysis in disputes involving alleged business impairment, forced closure, loss of going-concern value, failed franchise support, breach of contract, owner disputes, wrongful conduct, and other matters where the claimed harm extends beyond temporary lost profits.
Our work supports attorneys, business owners, insurers, claims professionals, mediators, arbitrators, and advisory teams that need to evaluate whether business value was reduced, impaired, or destroyed.
Lost business value claims require valuation judgment as well as damages analysis. The issue is not only what income may have been lost during a period of disruption, but whether the business itself suffered a measurable decline in enterprise value or going-concern value.
Our analysis brings together valuation methods, damages theory, financial reconstruction, and industry context to evaluate whether the claimed loss reflects a temporary earnings issue, a permanent loss of enterprise value, or both.
We analyze claims involving alleged destruction, impairment, or diminution of business value. These matters may involve operating companies, franchises, professional practices, family businesses, start-ups, closely held companies, and owner-operated businesses.
Our analysis may address pre-event value, post-event value, going-concern value, lost enterprise value, company-specific risk, operating history, financial trends, market conditions, and whether the claimed decline is tied to the alleged conduct.
Some disputes involve temporary loss of income. Others involve alleged permanent impairment or destruction of the business itself. The distinction matters.
The Valuation Group evaluates whether the damages theory is more appropriately measured as lost profits, lost business value, or a combination of valuation and income-based damages, depending on the facts, the financial evidence, and the applicable damages theory.
Lost business value analysis requires careful review of the factors that may have affected company performance and value. These may include market changes, management decisions, customer loss, competition, undercapitalization, financing constraints, franchise system issues, regulatory conditions, industry decline, or other company-specific events.
We evaluate whether the claimed decline in value is supported by the financial record and whether alternative explanations should be considered.
We review opposing valuation and damages conclusions involving alleged business impairment, diminution in value, closure, lost going-concern value, or failed business claims.
Our work may include review of valuation methods, revenue projections, normalized earnings, discount rates, market multiples, causation assumptions, industry data, mitigation, and the relationship between the alleged conduct and the claimed loss in value.
Related Valuation Issues
Rebuttal & Review of Opposing Expert Reports
Lost business value claims often require review of opposing expert assumptions, valuation methods, causation theories, and damages models.Breach of
Contract Damages
Contract disputes may involve alleged loss of business value, lost profits, increased costs, or other measurable financial consequences.
Business Interruption& Insurance
Certain interruption claims may raise questions about whether a business recovered, was impaired, or lost going-concern value.Lost Profits Analysis
Some matters involve both temporary lost profitsand longer-term business value effects.
