Chartered Capital Advisers' Services

Chartered Capital Advisers, Inc. provides merger & acquisition, valuation, and corporate financial advisory services on behalf of corporate clients, investors, financial institutions, attorneys, accountants, and participants in employee benefit plans. 

  MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS      -     VALUATIONS & FAIRNESS OPINIONS   

  FAS 141&142  - STRATEGIES & IMPLEMENTATION    -   CONSULTING

EXPERT TESTIMONY    -     LECTURES & SEMINARS   

 

Mergers & Acquisitions

 

Our professionals have advised on hundreds of domestic and cross-border merger & acquisition assignments, covering most sectors of the economy.  Our assignments have entailed advice to purchasers and sellers, along with selected private placements.  

 

ADVICE TO PURCHASERS

 

ADVICE TO SELLERS

 

Valuations and Fairness Opinions

Since we began business in the 1980s, Chartered Capital Advisers, Inc. has performed more than one thousand valuations of businesses, business segments, their securities, and underlying intangible assets. We are often called upon to assist in niche areas that support audit functions such as valuing intangible assets and goodwill under FASB 141 and 142, and valuing options in connection with FASB 123. Other applications of our valuation services include tax and estate planning, accounting issues, business combinations, recapitalizations, ESOPs, employee compensation plans, contractual obligations, and litigation.

We help our clients understand the value of business, business segments, debt and equity securities, tangible assets, as intangibles such as intellectual property.  Often, we are asked to advise on the strategic implications of our findings for owners, creditors, or other stakeholders.  In addition, when the situation requires that fiduciaries obtain an independent financial view of the transaction, we perform fairness opinions.  Examples include mergers and acquisitions, troubled companies, injections of capital, and recapitalizations.

 

Situations in which CCA advises on value include:

  • Mergers & acquisitions

  • Sales and divestitures

  • Solvency opinions

  • Insolvency opinions

  • Buy/sell agreements

  • Fairness opinions

  • Recapitalizations

  • Shareholder transactions

  • Capital infusions

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plans

  • Employee benefit plans

  • Expert testimony

  • Estate planning and taxation

  • Gift taxes

  • Collateral valuations

  • Purchase price allocations

  • Options, warrants, and other derivative financial instruments

 

New Challenges and Opportunities in Business Valuation:

 

FAS 141 and 142  - STRATEGIES, IMPLEMENTATION, AND SUPPORT

During 2001, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued FAS 141, Business Combinations, and FAS 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. These two Statements transform the way businesses account for combinations, and for the soft assets they already own.

FAS 141 and 142 affect both public and private firms, and these new requirements entail important one-time decisions which must be made immediately. These decisions will make a material and recurring impact on reported performance and on footnote disclosures.

Chartered Capital Advisers, Inc. can help. CCA has extensive experience in business valuation, including the valuation of intangibles, as well as unique expertise to help you strategize your approach to the new rules and manage them to your company's best advantage.

 

With the advent of FAS 141 and 142, CCA now offers both planning and valuation advice.

Call Ron Quintero or Stephen Blum at (212) 505-9743 for more information on how we can help you apply FAS 141 and 142 to your best advantage.

 

 

Expert Testimony

Because CCA professionals have, on average, well over 20 years of industry and corporate financial experience combined with various academic and professional credentials, attorneys and other parties to disputes and court proceedings often ask us to testify as experts, and many of us have done so on numerous occasions.  In addition, one of our professionals is a member of the American Arbitration Association and has served as an arbitrator and as a panelist. Our professionals also provide other kinds of litigation and forensic assistance.

The skills we employ in these assignments include:

  • Accounting 

  • Valuation and appraisal 

  • Financial analysis 

  • Corporate finance

  • Forensics

  • Financial modeling

  • Business research 

  • Written and oral presentations

CCA professionals have served in cases involving:

  • Valuation of businesses, securities and assets (tangible and intangible)

  • Loss causation

  • Fraud

  • Accounting malpractice

  • Financial statement analyis

  • Private placements

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Post-purchase disputes

  • Alter ego

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  • Bankruptcy

  • Damage measurement

  • Soft dollar payments

  • Big Five accounting firms

  • Interpretation of complex transactions

  • Divorce

  • Preparation of affidavits

 

Consulting

 

CCA professionals have extensive experience assisting clients that find their businesses in challenging circumstances.  We have a long track record working with the various parties to such situations, including debtors in possession, secured or unsecured creditors, incumbent or potential investors, attorneys, financial advisers, and other interested parties.

 

Much of our past and current restructuring work is "repeat business" or "word-of-mouth" referrals from attorneys who specialize in this field and with whom we have had excellent professional relationships.  

 

RESTRUCTURINGS

During bankruptcies or restructurings, we will take on tasks which may include preliminary due diligence, financial analysis, detailed financial planning and the development of alternative scenarios, development of a business plan, discussions with capital sources, identification and implementation of profit improvement initiatives, on-site interim and/or transitional management, and any related activities.

 

BUSINESS PLANS

The creation of a business plan constitutes an essential step in the creation and execution of strategies to enhance value, engineer a restructuring, and/or raise capital.  By grappling with the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing businesses and business units, executives and investors alike gain important insights on what needs to be done.  

 

Corporate Finance Seminars/Training

CCA and our professionals are actively involved in conducting and overseeing public and private seminars. We have taught in more than 40 US cities and in more than a dozen countries globally.

Seminar topics include:

  • Accounting
  • AIMR Professional Standards
  • Analyzing Equities, Fixed-Income
  • Securities, Options, Warrants, Real Estate, and Alternative Investments
  • Bankruptcy
  • Business Plans
  • Business and Securities Valuation
  • CFA Exam Review (among the leading firms in this area)
  • Corporate Finance
  • Due Diligence
  • Financial Projections and Forecasts
  • Financial Modeling)
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Financing a Business
  • Initial Public Offerings
  • Investment Banking
  • Leveraged Buyouts
  • Managing a Business
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Negotiations
  • Professional Ethics
  • Turnarounds
  • Valuation Modeling
  • Valuations of Financial Instruments
  • Venture Capital
  • Workouts

Our professionals have taught at a variety of firms and institutions:

Accounting firms  Arthur Andersen, KPMG, CPA Associates International, Marcum & Kliegman

 

Banks  The Bank of New York, Barclays Bank, Citicorp, Credit Lyonnais, FleetBoston, Union Bank of Switzerland

 

Financial Information Companies   Bloomberg, Thomson Financial

 

International Organizations   Asian Development Bank, The World Bank

 

Law Firms    Latham & Watkins, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Sullivan & Cromwell, Schulte Roth

 

Securities Firms   Charles Schwab, CIBC Oppenheimer, Goldman Sachs, Salomon Smith Barney

 

Training Organizations   American Institute of CPA's, Association for Corporate Growth, Center for Professional Education, Institute of International Research, New York Institute of Finance, Technology Training

 

Universities   New York University, Rutgers University, New School for Social Research, Columbia University, Amos Tuck (Dartmouth), University of Illinois, Fordham Business School

 

Industrial corporations  Motorola, Samsung, General Electric and Itochu.