McFarland Dewey regularly renders to our clients fairness opinions and provides valuations of debt and equity securities and of companies to owners, Boards of Directors, or other parties. In some situations we provide expert testimony. In a number of instances, we have assisted clients in the selection of the appropriate investment banking firm to take that client's securities into the public markets and acted as an experienced advisor to that client in the process of its IPO or underwritten securities placement.

We also act as independent advisors for insolvent, bankrupt, or financially troubled companies, for creditors committees, or for companies seeking to participate in a reorganization or recapitalization. In the case of non-public companies, McFarland Dewey is experienced in helping owners measure and balance the sometimes conflicting aspects of estate planning, maximizing private wealth, and honoring other values and objectives of owners of private businesses.

McFarland Dewey is prepared to do separate fairness opinions as well as valuations of intangible assets in transactions where a completely independent yet experienced and sophisticated opinion is helpful to a Board of Directors. In the case of a potential conflict of interest, we provide fairness opinions in support of opinions from firms involved in a transaction on other bases. McFarland Dewey partners have an aggregate of over 100 years of experience as Directors of public companies. This background helps keep our services focused with sophistication on the many and often complex issues with which the managers of public companies must contend when making major financial decisions.