Financial Services & Transaction Processing

American Appraisal understands the economic and competitive factors affecting our clients in the financial services industry. 

Who We Serve
Our clients in the financial services and transaction processing industry include the following:

• Retail banks
• Investment banks
• Brokerages
• Hedge funds
• Fund management companies
• Core or account processing solutions to financial institutions and other financial intermediaries
• Fraud and risk management providers

What We Do
American Appraisal’s work in financial services includes:

• Deal sourcing
• Due diligence
• Decision support and business modelling
• Transfer pricing and tax restructuring advice
• Financing and debt advisory
• Real estate advisory, including property tax valuations and negotiations
• Fair value accounting for business combinations under FASB ASC 805 and IFRS 3
• Asset componentization for IAS 16 compliance
• Impairment testing under ASC 350 and 360 and IAS 36
• Fair market value opinions for regulatory and tax compliance
• Asset-based financing
• Dispute resolution
• Fairness and solvency opinions
• Cost segregation studies
• Insurance placement and risk management
• Fixed asset inventory and reconciliation

Recent Experience
American Appraisal’s recent experience includes:

• Buy-side advice to a quoted UK finanical services business concerning two recent acquisitions
• Annual valuation of a corporate finance business
• Pre acquisition valuation advice for a financial services business investing in the Netherlands
• Valuation of a number of complex financial instruments held by a private equity fund
• Valuation of a first to default credit loan note for an investment bank
• Valuations of a number of businesses within a fund management business with over £15 billion AUM
• Buy side due diligence for an acquisition by a UK fund investing in India
• Annual valuations for a UK hedge fund
• Purchase price allocations for an acquisition of a global banking and payment technology business sold for £2 billion
• Solvency opinions following the leveraged buy-out of one of the largest providers of electronic commerce and payment solutions globally

Why American Appraisal?
American Appraisal operates in every major financial city throughout the world. Our financial services clients rely on American Appraisal to provide independent, objective third-party opinions and analyses. Our reports have withstood the scrutiny of worldwide regulatory, judicial and taxing authorities.