Category: Expert Testimony

Conceptual desk photograph for Eton Venture Services, featuring a detailed memorandum titled 'Fair Value of Zero Analysis Re: Jacobs v. Akademos' with key terms for 409A practitioners, next to a wooden gavel with a subtle legal case reference.

409A Valuation

Jacobs v. Akademos: When Common Stock Is Worth Zero

Delaware Court of Chancery appraisal ruling on PetSmart linking unreliable management projections to the failure of a DCF valuation

Business Valuation Law

When Projections Fail, DCF Disappears: The PetSmart Appraisal Decision and the Risk Boards Don’t See Coming [Update]

In Wolff v. Tomahawk, six experts were challenged and four excluded under Rule 702 and disclosure rules. See what survived and how to audit your roster.

Expert Testimony

Rule 702 Expert Exclusion: Lessons from Wolff v. Tomahawk

The Wrong Company Is Worth Nothing Kay v. Yosowitz and the Limits of Successor-Entity

Business Valuation Law

The Wrong Company Is Worth Nothing: Kay v. Yosowitz and the Limits of Successor-Entity Valuation

Value from One Expert, Goodwill from the Other The Mix-and-Match Approach in Johnston v. Adkins

Business Valuation in Divorce

Value from One Expert, Goodwill from the Other: The Mix-and-Match Approach in Johnston v. Adkins

Not Fair Market Value: How Virginia’s Intrinsic-Value Standard Shaped the Fight in Marhoum v. Fekkak

158 Million Transactions and a Simple Formula: How the Damages Expert Survived Daubert in Kirkbride v. Kroger

The Bookkeeper Who Became a Fiduciary: Schiano v. Harsanyi and the Records Behind the Valuation

Business Dissolution

When a Bookkeeper Becomes a Fiduciary | Schiano v. Harsanyi

The Expert Who Wasn’t: What Sullivan v. Loden Means for Valuation Expert Admissibility After the Amended Rule 702

The $13 Billion Bet on a Single Valuation Theory—and Why It Lost: Lessons from Tesla/SolarCity