Valuations

Few questions are more consequential, or more contested, than what a business is actually worth. A valuation is not a formality to be completed and filed; it is the evidentiary foundation on which sales are negotiated, disputes are resolved, succession is planned, and capital is priced. Get it right and every conversation that follows proceeds from a position of authority. Get it wrong and the cost compounds quietly for years, in tax exposure, in mispriced equity, and in decisions made on numbers that do not hold.

Our clients seek valuations at moments where precision matters and scrutiny is certain: founders preparing a business for sale, families pricing an intergenerational transfer, boards setting buy/sell triggers under shareholder agreements, and parties to mediation or family law proceedings who need a figure that will withstand challenge. These are rarely routine engagements. They demand independence, methodological rigour, and an understanding of how a valuation will be read by the counterparties, advisers, and regulators who come after it.

At Madison Branson Capital, valuation is a core discipline of the firm, strengthened by the integration of Seaview Consulting’s long-standing valuation practice. We combine an independent, evidence-led process with the transactional insight of an advisory house that prices businesses for real-world execution, not theory. Whether the requirement is an indicative view to guide a decision or a formal valuation prepared to ATO standards, we deliver conclusions that are defensible, commercially grounded, and clear about the assumptions on which they rest.

Areas of Expertise

• Independent Business Valuations – Determining enterprise and equity value using historical and forecast financial information to establish a maintainable earnings position, an analysis of operational capability to set a risk-adjusted capitalisation rate, and, where relevant, a net asset valuation to test the return shareholders are earning on assets employed.
• Formal Valuations – Preparing valuations that satisfy the requirements of the ATO and the standards expected for asset transfers between related parties, restructures, and CGT events, as well as those mandated under shareholder, unitholder, and partnership agreements.
• Indicative & Strategic Valuations – Articulating the most appropriate approach and methodology for the circumstances to guide sale readiness, shareholder discussions, insurance cover, succession, and other decisions where a robust working view of value is needed before a formal process begins.
• Transaction & Dispute Valuations – Underpinning M&A, capital raisings, separations, and mediations with defensible valuation evidence, price-bridge analysis, and conclusions structured to withstand independent and adversarial scrutiny.
• Valuation Improvement Program (VIP) – Helping owners understand the drivers of value, identify the components within those drivers they can influence, and define targeted initiatives that capture it, assessing the capability and capacity of the business along the way.

How we can help