We offer extensive experience in the valuation and analysis of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, contracts, and other intangible assets for purposes such as licensing and transactions, royalty rate analysis, tax compliance, and economic damages in litigation.
We provide valuation and forensic analysis of business and asset ownership interests for purposes including merger and acquisition transactions, corporate planning, investor due diligence, collateralization, tax compliance, dissolution of corporations, earnout analysis, solvency analysis, fraud investigation, and divorce accounting.
We provide valuation and damages expert witness services in state and federal litigation matters including patent infringement, trademark and trade dress infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, and business interruption.
Our Firm
Vanguard Economic Advisors is a boutique valuation company with a specialty in intellectual property analysis that include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, among other types of intangible assets. Our expertise in valuation and econonmic analysis spans small and large private and publicly traded companies among a wide variety of industries. Our experts have valued intellectual property assets ranging in diversity from patent rights of the once-ubiquitous RIM Blackberry mobile device to Fortune 500 company trademarks to the literary rights of Pulitzer Prize winning authors.
In addition, our experts have provided credible expert witness testimony in state and federal courts regarding valuation, economic damages, and technical matters. Ask us how we can assist you in providing thoughful, thorough, and credible solutions to your IP and business problems.
FAQ
In general, valuation analysts apply economic, financial, and accounting analysis to determine the economic value of a business or asset ownership interest. They typically consider a variety of approaches and methods depending on the applicable context and standards, which can differ widely by the subject interest being valued, the purpose for the valuation, the legal jusrisdiction, and the appropriate standards governing entities. Valuation analysts are often engaged to provide opinions for purposes of internal corporate planning, investor due diligence, taxation compliance, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency analysis, and damages analysis or other litigation support.
Our valuation analysts have years of experience in peforming valuations related to intellectual property and business matters, having led engagements at "Big Four" accounting and other leading valuation and financial advisory firms. Our analysts hold graduate degrees in business and economics, science and engineering, and law. They also hold relevant professional designations in valuation and forensic accounting. These include Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), and Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) designations from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA); the Master of Financial Forensics (MAFF) designation from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA); and Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) from the American Society of Appraisers, the latter requiring 10,000 hours of proven expertise in performing valuation analyses. This rare blend of skills and credentials provides our valuation analsyst with subject matter knowledge, insightful thinking, and credibility that is a cut above the others.
A valuation analyst can be engaged as a non-testifying consultant or a testifying expert witness. In a non-testifying role, the valuation analyst's work product and conclusions ordinarily are not discoverable. A consulting analysis can be helpful for an early-stage assessment of potential damages or for validating the analysis of others. The analysis and conclusions of a testifying expert witness generally are discoverable, wherein the particular rules about the discoverability of draft reports and other work product depend on the jurisdiction. VAE experts have experience tesifying in a variety of matters in state and federal courts.
Give us a call or email us about your inquiry. After a free consultation about your matter and a conflict check, our typical process for engaging a client is to draw up an engagement letter outlining the scope and terms of the work to be performed by us. These terms ordinary include a mutually agreeable schedule of deliverables and an estimated budget. We ordinary require an up-front retainer fee that is applied to the final invoice. We offer gold-standard professional and independent valuation and economic analysis at competitive rates.
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