Clarion Consulting Group 

VALUATION PROFESSIONALS 
TRUSTED ADVISORS

formerly a Mesirow Finacial Consulting Practice

Business Valuation and Advisory Services

The Clarion valuation team provides comprehensive valuation services and is deeply experienced in addressing valuation issues arising in the corporate environment.  Our team members are not only experts in addressing the valuation issues but also have extensive practical knowledge of the financial reporting, tax reporting, and transaction standards necessitating the valuation exercise.


The Clarion valuation team, along with our affiliates is a full service provider with the capacity to address most business valuation issues.  We value businesses, intangible assets, securities, derivatives, contingencies and have the resources (through our affiliates) to provide valuations of tangible assets (property, plant and equipment) and real property.

ASSETS AND LIABILITIES APPRAISED


ASSETS


Intangible

  • Customers
  • Customer Lists
  • Technology
  • In-process Research and Developement
  • Patented Technology
  • Proprietary Technology
  • Trademarks
  • Trade Names
  • Assembled Workforce
  • Professional Goodwill
  • Non-compete Agreements
  • Licenses
  • Contracts
  • Favorable Contracts
  • Distributor Rights and Relationships

Tangible

  • Inventory
  • Property Plant and Equipment (though affilates)

Real Property (through affiliates) 

  • Land
  • Building
  • Leases


SECURITIES AND DERIVATIVES


Options

Warrrants

Common Stock

Preferred Stock

Management Stock Plans (contigent performance vesting)


LIABILITIES


Term Debt

Convertible Debt

Contingent Covertible Obligations

Contingent Rate Obligations

Contigent Purchase Price (event based)

Contigent Purchase Price (performance based)

Contingent Purchase Price (correlated performance criteria)

ServiceS

The Clarion team members are expert in the valuation of businesses, complex securities and intangible assets in support of business transactions.  We bring our passion for client service, our deep industry segment and reporting issue knowledge, and proven state-of -the-art models to the most complex valuation issues.

VALUATION SERVICES


FINANCIAL REPORTING


ASC 820:  Fair Value Measurement

ASC 805:  Business Combinations

ASC 360:  Property Plant and Equipment

ASC 350:  Intangibles - Goodwill and Other

ASC 718:  Compensation - Stock and Compensation

IFRS 3:     Business Combinations

IFRS:        Fair Value Measurement

IAS 36:     Impairment Testing

IAS 39:     Derivative  Recognition and Meaurement


TAX REPORTING


IRS 409(a)
IRC 83(b)
IRC 108 debt forgiveness
IRC 165 worthless stock deduction
IRC 170 charitable donation
IRC 280G (non-compete)
IRC 338 allocation
IRC 382 NOL limitation
IRC 468B
IRC 482 transfer pricing
IRC 864 global tax allocation
State and local tax
Gift and estate tax
Restructuring
Built-in losses


TRANSACTIONAL


Pricing Assistance (Buy and Sell Side)

Capital Adequacy Analysis

Shareholder value analysis
IP licensing/investment analysis
Complex financial instruments
Dispute/litigation
Synergy assessment
Business case/ROI analysis
Operational risk quantification
Decision support