Major new updates to the two leading DLOM databases due soon
Both the Valuation Advisor’s Lack of Marketability Discount Study and the FMV Restricted Stock Study will be received huge updates in the very near future. Since these two studies are among the most heavily used in the tax courts and elsewhere, the enhanced data will help appraisers defend their discount for lack of marketability conclusions. [...]
Direct secondary market sales: the trend continues to build
Direct, secondary market transactions among private equity companies are surging, according a recent survey by PitchBook (co-sponsor of the new PitchBook/BVR Guideline Public Company Comps Tool™). Already, PE investors have completed 56 deals this year—compared to only 45 for all of 2009. These sales accounted for nearly a third (28.1%) of total U.S. exit activity [...]


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