The famous valuation “guru”, Aswath Damodaran from Stern School of Business in New York, defines valuation of a company as a mix of technique and art.
In particular, those companies that has a big “intellectual capital” component on their formation, as well as the ones that are in a fast growing phase, represents a challenge of additional complexity when it comes to valuations.
On those cases, that refects the vast majority of the companies on the software, information technology and services, it is vital that the valuation team possess experience and methodologic toolset to support building a convergent view among sellers and buyers.
The usage of Monte Carlo´s simulation, the identification and segregation of the revenues dynamics (recurrent and non-recurrent) on the projections, the comprehensive analysis of methodological, human and technological asset, are some of the aspects that allow projections to be more reliable and transparent.
With the background of have been part on hundreds of valuations and deals in Brazil (and other Countries) the KBP team also counts on the experience of leading directly, since 2001, over than fifteen M&A transactions involving IT companies.
Highly specialized on information technology and services, developed unique know-how to evaluate companies with large volume of intangible assets and intellectual capital and is ready to act in a unbiased and judicious way both in the sell and in buy side.