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