Delaware Supreme Court disses Chancery’s blending of valuation methods
The Delaware Supreme Court recently overturned a 2016 ruling by the Delaware Court Chancery that had blended the results of three valuation techniques to arrive at fair value.
Chancery’s fusion valuation triggers remand and some words of wisdom by Del. Supreme Court
The Delaware Supreme Court recently overturned a 2016 ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery that arrived at fair value by weighting the results of three valuation techniques equally. The high court's Chief Justice Strine, who once headed the Chancery, found this approach was problematic and used the decision to provide valuation advice to his successor, Chancellor Bouchard, who had overseen the appraisal proceeding.
High Court Finds Chancery’s Weighting of Values Unexplained and Inexplicable
State Supreme Court declines to create presumption for appraisal actions that deal price is best indicator of value when merger was arm’s-length transaction, but court finds Chancery’s valuation approach lacked support in record and requires revaluation.
2017’s Top Business Valuation and Damages Cases
BVLaw’s selection of the most educational cases of 2017.
2017 Most Notable Business Valuation Damages Cases
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Valuation and damages issues are integral to civil suits, and, with litigation booming, 2017 offered its share of cases that appraisers and damages experts must or should know. Here is BVLaw’s selection of the most educational cases of 2017. Digests and full court opinions for each of these cases are available in BVLaw.
High Court Finds Chancery’s Weighting of Values Unexplained and Inexplicable
State Supreme Court declines to create presumption for appraisal actions that deal price is best indicator of value when merger was arm’s-length transaction, but court finds Chancery’s valuation approach lacked support in record and requires revaluation.
BVLaw Case Update
Case law matters. Tune into BVLaw Case Update to deepen your understanding of the business valuation and damages litigation landscape. Knowing what goes on in court and what the law is makes you a more effective and sought-after expert. Join veteran valuator, speaker, and teacher Jim Alerding (Alerding Consulting LLC) and BVR’s own legal editor, Sylvia Golden, for a review of a number of significant recent court decisions, including key statutory appraisal rulings from the ...
Statutory Fair Value in Dissenting Shareholder Cases: Part II
This article continues the discussion of statutory appraisal that was presented in Part I in the prior issue of Business Valuation Review. Fair value, the predominant standard of value employed by state courts to value dissenters' shares in appraisal cases is, is determined by state law. In most states, fair value is the shareholder's pro rata portion of the value of a company's equity. This article discusses the approaches used by the Delaware courts' views ...
DFC Global Corp. v. Muirfield Value Partners, L.P. (II)
State Supreme Court declines to create presumption for appraisal actions that deal price is best indicator of value when merger was arm’s-length transaction, but court finds Chancery’s valuation approach lacked support in record and requires revaluation.