Our goal at Mercer Capital in creating this website is “strengthening buy-sell agreements from business and business valuation perspectives.”  We hopefully accomplish this by providing readers with information, from a business valuation perspective, to enhance, improve, and help ensure that their buy-sell agreements (or those of their clients) provide reasonable and workable solutions when they are triggered.  

Primary Contributors

Z. Christopher Mercer, ASA, CFA, ABAR is founder and CEO of Mercer Capital and the author of Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions? and other valuation-related books and articles.  He is a nationally known writer, speaker and business valuation expert.  Chris has a deep interest in the ongoing valuation needs of privately held (and public) companies, and has numerous recurring client relationships with durations to more than 20 years. 

As founder and CEO of Mercer Capital, he is also a businessman.  His experience in business valuation dates back some 30 years and he has valued or participated significantly in the valuation of perhaps a thousand companies.  Buy-Sell Agreements Online brings his business and business valuation experiences, together with those of many other professionals at Mercer Capital, to this website and blog.

You can contact him directly at mercerc@mercercapital.com or at 901.685.2120.  For more information about Chris, visit his bio at Mercer Capital’s site and his LinkedIn profile.

Timothy R. Lee, ASA is the leader of Mercer Capital’s Corporate Valuation Service Group, a senior vice president with the firm, and a member of its board of directors.  Tim has extensive experience working with sizeable closely held businesses across the nation on engagements related to buy-sell agreement consulting and disputes, income, gift, and estate tax valuation, corporate planning, ESOP valuation, and transaction advisory consulting. 

 

Tim contributed to Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions? and is currently authoring A User’s Guide to Business Valuation: Lessons from the Trenches, co-written by L. Paul Hood, Esq. and to be published by John Wiley & Sons.

You can contact him directly at leet@mercercapital.com or at 901.322.9740.  For more information about Tim, visit his bio at Mercer Capital’s site and his LinkedIn profile.

Buy-Sell Agreement Valuation Services

Mercer Capital is the leading provider of buy-sell agreement valuation services in the nation.  We bring analytical resources and some 30 years of experience working with private and public companies to the business valuation issues surrounding buy-sell agreements.  And we wrote the book on the topic.

• Buy-sell agreement reviews.  We will review your buy-sell agreement from business and valuation perspectives and make appropriate suggestions.  This type of review is helpful to owners and their attorneys when creating or amending buy-sell agreements.
• Annual/recurring business valuations.  We are the named appraiser in a growing number of buy-sell agreements.  We have been conducting recurring valuations for businesses for many years, and have current clients with more than 20 years of continuing experience with us.
• Named appraiser for valuation processes.  Many buy-sell agreements call for a two or three appraiser process to determine value when trigger events occur.  Mercer Capital professionals have been the named "first appraiser," the "second appraiser," and the "third appraiser" in many buy-sell agreement valuation processes.
• Litigation regarding your buy-sell agreement.  Unfortunately, too many buy-sell agreements end up in litigation.  We have extensive experience in damages and valuation-related litigation support, and specific experience with litigation re buy-sell agreements.

Contact Chris Mercer (901.685.2120 or mercerc@mercercapital.com) or Tim Lee (901.322.9740 or leet@mercercapital.com) to discuss your needs in confidence.

About Mercer Capital

Mercer Capital is an employee-owned, independent business valuation and investment banking firm serving a national and international client base. 

We offer a suite of business valuation, consulting, and investment banking services including financial reporting, gift, estate and corporate tax valuation, M&A advisory, fairness and solvency opinions, ESOP and ERISA valuation services, and litigation support. 

We provide annual or quarterly appraisals for some 100 companies.  Businesses obtain recurring or annual appraisals for numerous reasons, including for their ESOPs, for corporate planning purposes, for the gift and estate tax planning of their owners, and for their buy-sell agreements.  In addition to the inherent benefits of these annual appraisals, they provide meaningful information regarding the return on investment for business owners.

Visit Mercer Capital’s corporate website: www.mercercapital.com.