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Litigation and Dispute Support

Testifying and consulting expert work on valuation matters that cross real-property and enterprise-value lines.

What this covers

The work in plain English.

Testifying and consulting expert engagements where the dispute turns on the value of a business, a property, or both. Recurring matter types include marital dissolution involving an operating business with real estate, shareholder and partnership disputes (control vs. minority, oppression, buy-sell), breach-of-contract, lost-profits, and other damages claims, eminent-domain and partial-taking cases involving going-concern impact, and Daubert challenges to prior experts.

Reports and testimony are scoped to the venue and the standard. Federal court under FRE 702, state court under state-specific Daubert / Frye analogues, arbitration, and mediation each have different requirements; LHM matches the deliverable to the forum.

Who this is for

Built for the review audiences who actually scrutinize this work.

  • Litigation counsel
  • In-house counsel
  • Trustees
  • Family-law counsel

When to call LHM

Specific situations where this engagement is the right fit.

  • A marital dissolution involves both an operating business and significant real estate
  • A shareholder dispute requires control / minority interest analysis
  • A breach-of-contract or fraud matter requires lost-profits or business-value analysis
  • An eminent-domain or partial-taking matter involves going-concern impact
  • An expert has been challenged under Daubert and counsel is evaluating a replacement or supplement

Why this gets complicated

The technical nuances that decide the answer.

Litigation valuation is judged twice: by the court on admissibility, and by the trier of fact on weight. Methodology that is intellectually defensible but poorly explained loses on the second axis; methodology that is dramatic but technically thin loses on the first. The discipline is to build for both.

When real estate and enterprise value both factor into the dispute, the cross-discipline expertise that LHM brings is rarely available from either an appraisal-only or a BV-only expert, and counsel can avoid the awkward scenario of two experts whose work does not reconcile.

What LHM evaluates

Analytical components.

  • Business enterprise value with method selection appropriate to the standard of value
  • Real-property fair market value where relevant
  • Damages analyses, including lost profits and lost business value
  • Discount and premium analysis (control, marketability, fractional interest)
  • Critique and rebuttal of opposing-expert analyses
  • Daubert / FRE 702 admissibility considerations in report design

Standards and review audiences

The frameworks the work has to clear.

Daubert / FRE 702
Expert-witness admissibility framework for federal and most state courts.
USPAP
Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, current edition.
AICPA SSVS
Statement on Standards for Valuation Services, applicable to AICPA-credentialed analysts.

Deliverables

What you receive.

  • Expert report with full reliance documentation
  • Deposition and trial testimony
  • Rebuttal report responding to opposing experts
  • Demonstratives and trial-presentation support

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