Work Area: Valuation

A company’s brand can be one of its most valuable intangible assets and neglecting it in pursuit of scale can be extremely damaging. In this regard, business owners can learn important lessons from Starbucks – one of the great business success stories in the world.

26 April 2023

Like many others, the bank held thousands of patents as security for loan deals, but almost certainly had no idea of their value – or lack of it

16 March 2023

Marconi's Kasim Alfalahi takes the top spot for Avanci's stellar showing in our countdown of the patent market’s most innovative and influential dealmakers and decision takers

15 March 2023

Value can be hidden in the many years of effort, millions of dollars of investment capital and fine-tuned market strategies, which all contribute to driving long-term business success and scaling up a company’s overall worth. It is thus crucial to find a way to reflect this on a company’s balance sheet.

08 March 2023

New rules on transfer pricing drawn up by the OECD, which could be adopted by authorities in well over 100 countries, are set to have a major impact on how businesses manage their intangible assets

16 February 2023

SPACs can learn much from Coach Saban’s so-called ‘seven-second process’, reshaping it into a unique method to keep investors excited about target businesses and their intangible assets during the dreaded transfer portal period.

15 February 2023

Industry practitioners remain optimistic against an unstable financial backdrop

04 January 2023

QTL General Manager John Han speaks to IAM about essentiality checks and valuation during negotiations as well as future pool participation

22 December 2022

Companies are failing to conduct proper due diligence assessments that consider intangible assets, which is proving detrimental to their organisation’s true value.

30 November 2022

Strategic review of the licensing business nears a year in motion with no news on potential divestment announced

10 November 2022