by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Valuations
In the wake of the 1993 Daubert case, challenges against expert witnesses in stock valuation cases have found greater success. Still, not all Daubert disputes succeed. One case before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims helped clarify how one party can successfully...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
O’Rourke v. Burke and Hotchkiss, PLLC, 2013 N.H. Super. LEXIS 4 (March 6, 2013) Citing an authority on the going concern methodology but failing to apply the prescribed principles was only one of several critical errors an expert made when he assessed damages...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
Samson v. Western Capital Partners LLC (In re Blixseth), 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 1001 (March 28, 2013) “The Trustee … continues the fiction that [the debtor], one of the Forbes’ 400 wealthiest Americans in 2007, was insolvent during that very same year” is...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, IRS Regulation
Fancher v. Prudhome, 2013 La. App. LEXIS 318 (Feb. 27, 2013) A withdrawing member of a limited liability company unsuccessfully appealed the trial court’s decision to use the book value of the company’s assets, rather than rely on his expert’s going...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Divorce Litigation
Gentile v. Gentile, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 5051 (March 13, 2013) In appealing the fair market value determination of his medical practice, the husband claimed that the trial court erred when it included goodwill as a divisible asset and that its conclusion had no...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Business Plans, Court Rulings, Financial Planning
Wisniewski v. Walsh, 2013 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 724 (April 2, 2013) Children learn that bad behavior has consequences. An appellate court recently taught a similar lesson to a troublemaking shareholder whose doings forced a buyout. Three siblings each owned a...
