Book description
An essential guide to business valuation and bankruptcy
Business Valuation and Bankruptcy helps you-whether you are an
accountant dealing with a troubled company, a lender, an investor, a
bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer/financial advisor, or a private
equity player-to focus on solving everyday and case determinative
disputes when creditors, lenders, and debtors have differing views of value.
Introducing valuation issues early on in the restructuring/bankruptcy
process so you can plan accordingly, this book offers
- Many real life case examples, case descriptions, and tables to
demonstrate the applicable sections of the Bankruptcy Laws
- A review of the methods, applications, pros and cons of
restructuring with the basic tools to understanding it
- A description of the life cycle of a troubled company and the
various stages of a restructuring
- An analysis of the valuation issues that confront practitioners
in the real world of application of the law
Business Valuation and Bankruptcy is written in terms that are
common to bankruptcy professionals and is essential, timely reading
for players in the bankruptcy and restructuring environment.
Ian Ratner, CPA, ABV, ASA, CFE, of GlassRatner
Advisory & Capital Group LLC, is a nationally recognized financial
advisor, focused in the area of forensic accounting, litigation
support, business valuation, and bankruptcy consulting. He has a
proven track record as an expert advisor and has led high-profile and
complex assignments including failed transactions, SEC investigations,
financial reporting frauds, large corporate bankruptcies, and
countless commercial litigation matters. In many of these cases, he is
asked to decipher contradictory valuation opinions and testimony by
getting behind the numbers relied on by others. Ian has testified as
an expert on dozens of occasions in state and federal courts in
various jurisdictions around the country.
Grant T. Stein is partner in the law firm of Alston & Bird
LLP in the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Workouts Group. He is a
Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Chair and past president
of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, and is identified as a
top practitioner in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for
Business, The Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers magazine.
During his more than twenty-five years of practice, he has amassed
extensive bankruptcy and litigation experience dealing with valuation questions.
John C. Weitnauer is a partner with the law firm of Alston
& Bird LLP in the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Workouts Group.
In 2006, he was co-trial counsel for plaintiffs in a jury trial that
involved many business valuation issues, and obtained a verdict
stating that over 5,000,000 in transfers were made with the actual
intent to defraud the plaintiffs, with 0,000,000 in punitive damages.
He has been included in The Best Lawyers in America reference books
since 1995. He is profiled in Chambers USA: America's Leading
Lawyers for Business. He is a Contributing Editor of two
bankruptcy treatises, Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice and
the Bankruptcy Litigation Manual.
