Consumer & Industrial Products and Services Industry Focus

Our consumer and industrial products team is experienced in delivering valuation and financial, economic and strategic advice to companies in the retail market, consumer packaged goods, property, industrial products, automotive and transport industry sectors.

We help our clients with valuation advice in the context of:

• a proposed transaction, including valuation opinions to satisfy regulatory requirements
• valuations for commercial purposes such as a restructuring
• Purchase Price Allocations and impairment reviews
• expert valuation opinions in legal or disputed circumstances
• tax valuations
• valuations of intangible assets and intellectual property

Recent examples of where we have provided advice to our consumer and industrial products clients:

• Property – for the last three years we have carried out annual independent reviews and commented on the valuation of a pension fund's equity interest in one of London’s major property developments
• Retail – we perform a biannual valuation of a major high street shoe retailer to determine the share price for an internal market in the shares, under the company’s Articles of Association
• Manufacturing – working with our Business Recovery Services colleagues, we provided valuation and market analysis, focusing on key risks and opportunities, to a number of banks who were in the process of considering a refinancing proposal for a company manufacturing chemicals, inks and pharmaceuticals
• Automotive – Purchase Price Allocation following the acquisition of a leading car manufacturer, which involved the valuation of two iconic British brands