Valuations
Independent valuations delivered with clarity.
Understanding value is critical to your decision-making process. Our experts combine technical knowledge, sound judgement, and access to comprehensive market data to bring clarity to the valuations process.
Our senior-led team brings deep technical expertise and a balanced, ethical approach to even the most complex of valuation scenarios, simplifying complexity and making our clients’ lives easier.
There are numerous contexts in which you might require robust and independent valuations.
Through clear communication, transparent methodology, and a relationship-first mindset, we ensure a seamless and dynamic experience from start to finish. Backed by multidisciplinary experts across the wider Buzzacott ecosystem, our valuations are informed, reliable, and tailored to each client's needs.
In addition to valuing shares and businesses, we provide opinions on the value of share options and growth shares, intellectual property and intangible assets, credit instruments and preference shares, and can also provide fairness opinions and review the work of others. Our support extends to businesses with valuation-related matters such as impairment reviews and purchase price allocations, and we’re also able to support individuals with their valuation-related challenges such as IHT and probate, Business Property Relief (BPR), divorce, or the valuation of investment portfolios.
Our services
If you’re looking to acquire a business, raise finance or negotiate a sale of your shares, valuations provide a sound base from which to negotiate. Or, if you’re planning a future sale of your business, a valuation is essential to helping you benchmark progress and identify areas where you can enhance value for the greatest return.
Our independent, third-party valuations assist in resolving shareholder disputes, and we’re happy to act for one party or carry out the role as the single joint expert. Our reports provide clear and robust opinions to give you confidence in these often stressful and difficult situations.
Whether you’re an individual looking for valuations to support with personal taxes (such as IHT, CGT, BPR, or probate), or a business owner looking for valuations around Company Share Option Plans (CSOP), enterprise management incentives (EMI) and growth share schemes, employee-ownership trusts (EOTs), or asset valuations for cross-border transfers, our valuations experts can help you understand the tax implications of these situations.
Fair value reporting requirements can arise at any point in a business’ life cycle and may involve more than just share investments. Our team has extensive experience performing valuations for accounting purposes, working with internal valuation committees and audit firms of all sizes.
We provide valuation support for:
- Purchase price allocation and intangible asset valuations
- Share-based payment (share option) valuations
- Impairment reviews
- Portfolio valuations of private equity and credit investments
Setting out your financial forecasts in a reliable and flexible financial model can be incredibly useful, whether you’re responding to a specific need to pull together a financial model or to gain insights into future growth plans.
Why work with us?
Whether you're navigating strategic decisions, regulatory requirements, or investment opportunities, we help you uncover the value that matters most.
Strategic insight, delivered by senior experts
Led by senior experts, our team delivers technical expertise and handles complex valuation challenges with confidence.
Blending quality output and quality service
Bringing together a team with proven expertise to provide a responsive and agile service bespoke to your needs.
Seamless experience and strong relationships
We simplify the valuations process, bring clarity to complexity, and make your life easier through clear communication and transparent methodology.
Joined-up approach
Our internal teams work together to share knowledge and expertise, ensuring every client receives the best possible value. This joined-up approach allows you to benefit from seamless service delivery and broader perspectives tailored to your business.
Hear from our clients
It was a pleasure working with David on our valuation. He was able to both explain complex concepts in a way that was understandable and to work with our timescales to ensure we were able to hit our tight deadlines.
Matt Hall, Chief Financial Officer, Synectics Solutions
We’ve asked Buzzacott to provide company valuation advice on a number of transactions. We find them an excellent choice: thorough, responsive, practical and easy to build a really good working relationship.
Robert Postlethwaite, Founder & Managing Director, Postlethwaite Solicitors