Business valuations and divorce
The HW Forensic Accountants team has extensive experience of handling complex divorce cases, often involving high profile businesses, wealthy individuals or cross-border litigation.
The valuation of a business, whether in divorce proceedings or as part of other litigation, requires excellent working knowledge of owner-managed enterprises and all the associated tax and financing issues that can impact a business and its owners.
HW Forensic can help with the following aspects:
- Tax matters associated with the ownership or disposal of matrimonial assets
- Tax and the former matrimonial home
- The disclosure of assets and sources of income
- Implications of share options
- Share transactions and the 'purchase of own shares'
- The research of corporate valuation comparators
- Non-corporate and partnership valuations
- Liquidity
- Trusts
Typically the information that we seek in a valuation engagement is as follows:
- Past accounts of the business
- Recent management accounts
- Forecasts, projections or business plans
- Commercial information about products, services, customers and suppliers
- Constitutional documents and agreements between shareholders, directors or partners
- Property and specialised asset valuations