Clients who are seeking to refinance their business often require support for the value of the business, its underlying assets or its intellectual property. Such support is vital to debt providers in making their financing decision particularly where the debt will be secured against the assets of the business. We are regularly asked to provide independent valuations for these purposes as an essential part of the due diligence undertaken by the debt provider. Our reports are instrumental in enabling banking and financial services organizations throughout the world to meet their commercial & legal obligations.
The lease appraisal field has become a complex and rapidly evolving discipline, requiring expertise in areas from equipment remarketing and industrial technology to tax and accounting driven transaction structures. Our clients in the leasing industry include lessors, lessees, arrangers and attorneys, all of whom face extremely competitive conditions. Our lease valuation experts work closely with investors, secured lenders, lessees, asset managers, transaction arrangers, tax attorneys and other professionals to facilitate the structuring of successful lease investments, the management of lease portfolios and the disposition of assets at lease termination, as well as providing consulting services associated with these activities.
Solvency opinions confirm that a company remains solvent after an acquisition, merger or other corporate transaction requiring debt financing. Should bankruptcy occur later, an independent solvency opinion by American Appraisal can protect secured lenders, boards of directors and advisors from liability in fraudulent conveyance claims. American Appraisal provide independent opinions of a company's ability to remain solvent, to the satisfaction of lenders, shareholders, regulators, tax authorities and the courts.
Business Planning & Financial Modeling
Solvency Opinions