Russell Alexander, Melanie Russell & Jason Kwiatkowski
Wednesday, July 13th at 12:00 pm EDT
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Event Description
In this 1-hour presentation, Ontario-based Collaborative Family Lawyer, Russell Alexander, and business valuation experts, Melanie Russell and Jason Kwiatkowski, offer their expertise to share their insights in advanced topics in Divorce & Business Valuations as an extension of their previous presentation on this topic in family law.
1. BV 101 quick review
2. Common valuation approaches – what they are and when they should be used
3. Scope limitations
4. Cryptocurrency
5. Redundancies
6. Value of shareholder and related party loans
7. Personal expenses and other common normalization adjustments to consider in a business valuation
8. The difference between personal and commercial goodwill
9. Notional disposition costs – what they are and how to calculate
10. Market/economic compensation – separating return for services performed from return on equity
11. Double-dipping
12. Top 5 tips to reviewing and critiquing a BV report
Panelists
Russell Alexander, Founder & Senior Partner
Russell is the Founder and Senior Partner of Russell Alexander Collaborative Family Lawyers firm. With over 20 years of experience, Russell offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Collaborative Family Law. In addition to helping clients with separation, divorce, custody, and support issues, Russell oversees the operations of seven offices within the firm. He uses his experience to create unique solutions for each of his clients to enable them and their families to move forward with their lives in a compassionate, collaborative, and client-focused manner.
Melanie Russell, B. Comm., CPA, CBV, CIM, CFE, CFF, ABV
Melanie is the founder of Kalex Valuations Inc. which she founded in 1996. Throughout her professional career she has been involved in many assignments for a variety of public and private companies of various sizes and across many industries, obtaining her training at two of the largest international accounting firms in the industry. Melanie placed second in Canada on the CICBV membership examination. Ms. Russell has been active in teaching business valuations and related topics since 1987 at various universities and professional organizations, and runs the premiere preparatory course for CBV students in Canada taking their national Membership Qualification Examination.
Jason Kwiatkowski, CPA, CA, CBV, ASA, CEPA
Jason is a founding partner and the President at Valuation Support Partners Ltd., a professional services firm specializing in providing the business and legal communities with business valuation, litigation support and exit planning advisory services. Jason is an independent financial neutral and has completed numerous business valuation and expert reports including income assessments for various purposes. Jason has testified before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as an expert witness in business valuation and damages quantification. Jason has authored many articles and spoken before various professional and business groups
We encourage registrants to send in their panelist questions in advance with registration for the Q&A segment of the virtual event.
To respect confidentiality, all attendees’ identities will remain anonymous to other audience members.
Those who attend a live virtual event and provide feedback to our team will receive a free digital copy of one of Russell’s recent e-book releases.
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