Business Valuation. Mark Bailey & Co. Ltd. provides business valuation services to a wide range of clientele including business owners, investors, attorneys, financial and estate planners, insurance and surety companies and financial institutions. Our approach is customized to the client we are serving and our expertise provides reassurance to those in challenging situations.

Well Qualified. Our certified experts directing these services are accredited in business valuation (ABV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and have been qualified as business valuation expert witnesses in courts in the states of Nevada and California.

Our business appraisers are involved in:

• The valuation of shares for Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs).
• Estate and gift tax situations in order to determine the value of business assets held by the estate or the value of shares or assets to be donated for gift tax purposes.
• Succession planning to determine the value of the business and the value of assets or shares to be transferred as part of that plan.
• Mergers and acquisitions that many times require valuation of the acquirer and target for setting share prices.
• Arbitration and mediation as parts of settlement processes.
• Determining a value before and after alleged damages so that the value of the claim can be quantified.
• Litigation support including dissenting shareholder actions, economic loss analysis and partner/shareholder disputes.
• Pricing of initial public offerings and valuation of incentive stock option programs.
• Condemnation and eminent domain actions to determine the value of a business that is either closed or relocated because of the action.
• Various charitable and other trusts which require valuation to determine the value of the trust assets and contributions to the trust.
• Determining the adequacy of life insurance for the value of a company, a shareholder's interest in the company or the loss of a key person.
• Providing an analysis of the increase in valuation of the company from the implementation of a number of potential business strategies..