409A Valuations — Are You Pricing Your Options Too High?
Start-up CFOs are fast realizing how early stage 409A valuations completed by quick cookie cutter, ‘textbook’ approach often result in inflated option prices and disgruntled emp
Estate & Gift Tax
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Valuation disputes in estate and gift tax cases with IRS have increased significantly. When it comes to estate planning, you rely on your advisors with safeguarding your business, minimizing risk and to extent your future. The most successful taxpayers and their counsel know that to have a seasoned valuation expert on your side is a good investment.
You can depend upon Aranca for getting defensible valuations. In case of IRS challenge, we help you partner with leading valuation experts who have worked with hundreds of leading trust, estate and tax law firms and have unparalleled experience in has completing IRS/Court qualified engagements and expert testimonies
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Founder’s Stock Sale — How Not to Turn it Into a 409A Nightmare
A Founders’ Stock sale can have serious and far reaching implications on the pricing of stock options due to 409A provisions. While the extent of t
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Is the common share of a start-up really worth so much?
In the case of early stage start-ups, valuation appraisers, using the prescribed method, always come up with a common share valuation, which is invariably far
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Are business valuation approaches lagging behind?
The finance world has been using the same methods to value businesses for a long time now. While the business world has changed significantly, valuation
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What 2017 Looks Like for Indian Start-up Valuations
India’s start-up ecosystem savored 2015. Several dominant consumer driven tech-startups (such as e-commerce portals, food-tech sites, online marketplaces, and aggregators) enjoyed soaring valuations. 2016 was another s
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Technology Sector Reports
Technology sector reports are a collection of quarterly reports containing analysed data on tech fundings, M&As, and IPOs. We have covered Ad & Marketing tech,
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How to Get the Most Out of IP Financing
The use of intellectual property as collateral to obtain finance is an increasingly common phenomenon. Over the past three decades, the proportion of tangible assets
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A decade later, most Indian internet companies are as far from an IPO as when they started off
“The barriers to entry in several internet businesses are really low,” Aranca’s Mantena said. “Any competitor can come at any time and start the same bu
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Oman to reap revenues from new VAT system
As GCC countries start looking at the real impact of the coming Value Added Tax (VAT), planned for the beginning of 2018, the country of Oman
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Modi’s surprise move on rupee notes has come as a pleasant surprise indeed for Indian internet startups
The Narendra Modi government’s decision to replace the Rs500 and Rs1,000 denomination notes with new ones has done in two days what Indian internet s