Independent Analysis of Claimed Financial 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
Lost profits claims turn on the quality of the financial evidence. Revenue history, avoided costs, capacity, market conditions, causation, mitigation, customer behavior, pricing, margins, and company-specific risk all affect the reliability of the damages conclusion.
Our work tests the claimed loss against the company’s records, operating history, market evidence, and the economic assumptions required to measure what would likely have occurred but for the alleged event.
We analyze historical revenue, projected revenue, gross margins, operating expenses, avoided costs, incremental costs, customer trends, seasonality, industry conditions, and other factors affecting the claimed loss.
Our work focuses on the economic difference between the alleged “but-for” scenario and the actual financial results, with attention to whether the claim is supported by the company’s records and market evidence.
A lost profits conclusion must be tied to the facts of the matter. We evaluate whether the claimed loss is connected to the alleged conduct, whether other factors may have affected performance, and whether the claimant’s assumptions are consistent with the financial evidence.
Where applicable, we also analyze mitigation, replacement revenue, delayed revenue, substitute business, capacity constraints, and the duration of the claimed loss period.
We provide lost profits analysis in matters involving breach of contract, failed transactions, franchise disputes, supplier or customer disputes, distribution agreements, business interruption, professional practice disputes, and other commercial matters.
Our reports are prepared to assist counsel and advisory teams in evaluating the amount claimed, the assumptions used, and the financial support for the alleged loss.
In many disputes, the most important question is whether the opposing damages model is reliable.
We review lost profits calculations, revenue projections, margin assumptions, avoided cost treatment, growth rates, causation analysis, mitigation assumptions, discounting, and supporting schedules. Our work helps counsel identify unsupported assumptions, methodological weaknesses, and areas requiring rebuttal or further discovery.
