Illinois Business Valuations

Chicago Business Valuations

From time to time Chicago and Illinois business owners need to obtain an independent business valuation to determine an objective value of the company. Often times this becomes a need when you are looking to sell your business, although there are other times when a valuation may be needed such as during exit strategy planning, updating partnership and buy/sell agreements, shareholder disputes, and for estate tax planning purposes. Whatever the reason, Selden Fox has 40 years of experience working with Illinois business owners seeking business valuations.

Our Business Valuation Experience

The Selden Fox team has years of experience working with Chicagoland business owners to uncover the true value of their companies’ tangible and intangible assets.

BVA has provided business valuations for a variety of reasons, including:

• buy/sell agreements
• estate and gift tax planning
• purchase, sale or merger of a business
• succession/exit planning

In order to properly value a business, our analyst considers not only the tangible assets but also the intangible assets, such as goodwill, the skill of the management team, physical location and name recognition, to name a few. This requires the valuator to gain a thorough understanding of all aspects of the company and the industry in which they operate.

Where to Start?

Our recent White Paper: Different Approaches to Business Valuations is a good place to start as you consider moving forward with a business valuation. There are three acceptable methods that practitioners can use to perform a business valuation: the asset approach, the income approach, and the market approach. Each method may at times appear more theoretically justified in its use than others. The soundness of a particular method is entirely based on the relative circumstances involved in each individual case. Download the White Paper now for a summary to help understand the basics of all three approaches.

Why Selden Fox?

While there are many valuation providers, very few have the deep experience that comes from years of valuing companies in different industries with diverse value drivers. Armed with this experience, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the company’s history, present capacity, future projects, operational procedures and more. The result is an accurate valuation report that provides insight into the company’s value and is defensible against outside scrutiny.

Organizations like yours choose to engage with us for their business valuation because we:

Contact our Chicago Business Valuation Team

Selden Fox conducts business valuations for companies throughout and beyond the Chicago IL area. If you are interested in knowing about how we can assist your organization, please complete the form below, and we will get back to you shortly.