SP&H provides research services for business planning and litigation purposes. To conduct exhaustive research and thorough due diligence, SP&H leverages its extensive in-house library, including hundreds of prior valuation reports, industry contacts, skilled research analysts, and broad access to financial, statistical, and transactional databases. Our analyses focus on individual factors that comprise any business valuation engagement, such as:

• Industry and market research
• Competition research
• Economic research
• Fair market compensation research
• Valuation multiples and investment rates of return research
• Survey and field research
• Research specific claims made by plaintiffs and defendants in litigation (e.g., "this construction project alone caused lost sales")

Business Planning:

SP&H provides business owners and executives with valuable research services that enable them to make more informed business decisions. Through extensive research, utilizing numerous financial, industry and market databases, surveys, and field research, SP&H can uncover potential business opportunities, identify industry trends, reveal insurgent competition, establish fair levels of compensation, and provide analyses of the market multiples within a particular industry.

Litigation:

SP&H can provide attorneys with expert research services to analyze and help interpret claims made by other valuation or financial experts (see Litigation Support). Furthermore, SP&H has testified in both Federal and state courts, and has broad experience representing complex data graphically in simple and easy-to-understand trial exhibits for judges and juries.