Fairness Opinions
Cognient’s Fairness Opinion team works closely with Special Committees, Boards of Directors, business owners and other fiduciaries as an independent adviser free of conflicts to provide certainty with regards to decisions made on behalf of their shareholders. A fairness opinion serves as an effective risk management tool which safeguards the Board and their decisions from legal scrutiny. In order to comply with the business judgment rule, fair process and fair dealing are paramount and must be well documented.
We provide comprehensive analysis and unbiased opinions supported with thorough research, detailed financial analyses and the necessary documentation necessary to make confident decisions.
We have valued companies and their underlying securities for decades in some of the most complex situations and in virtually every type of change-of-control transaction, including:
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- Affiliate and Insider Transactions
- Related-Party Transactions
- Leveraged Buy-Outs
- Spinoffs
- ESOP Transactions
- Going-Private Transactions
- Synergistic Mergers
- Transactions Involving Competing Offers
- Down-Round Financings
- Transactions with Management
