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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Jun 2014

Grounding Retrospective Solvency Analyses in Contemporaneous Information (2 of 3)

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Page Range: 3 – 20
DOI: 10.5791/BVR-D-13-00005.1
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Abstract

Courts frequently use contemporaneous information to assess a debtor's solvency as of the date a disputed transfer was made or a disputed obligation was incurred. This is the 2nd of three papers that provides a business valuation practitioner's perspective on how to use contemporaneous information to assess the debtor's solvency on the relevant date. This paper addresses the use of contemporaneous actions (excluding stock and debt prices, which were addressed in the 1st paper) that can be used to assess whether a debtor was solvent or insolvent. This paper represents the views of the author and is not the official position of Duff & Phelps LLC.

Copyright: American Society of Appraisers

Contributor Notes

Michael Vitti is a managing director at Duff & Phelps, LLC, and a business valuation practitioner who has worked on several solvency analyses, including two of the matters discussed in this series of papers: (1) VFB LLC v. Campbell Soup Company, and (2) financial advisor to the court-appointed examiner into Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy filing.

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