Appraisal Economics Inc. has determined the fair value of an outperformance plan (OPP) granted to employees of a real estate investment trust (REIT). This OPP grants employees shares of the company’s publicly traded common stock based on the achievement of certain absolute and relative performance hurdles at the end of the performance period. These market-based performance conditions are intended to align the goals of the employee grantees with shareholders. In addition to the absolute and relative performance hurdles, which are based on the company’s and peer group companies’ total shareholder return (TSR) adjusted for dividends, the plan also has a complex acceleration feature. Under the acceleration feature, grantees can earn and receive shares of the company’s common stock on earlier dates (before the end of the performance period) if the company has already achieved the maximum absolute or relative TSR target. In addition to determining the fair value of outperformance plan grants, Appraisal Economics Inc. also performs quarterly computations to estimate the numbers of shares that will be awarded under the plan.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has performed a valuation of long-term incentive plan units (LTIP Units) for one of the largest publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs). The LTIP Units were granted to employees as equity based compensation and were designed to align the interests of the grantees with company stockholders. The grants have market-based vesting conditions, whereby the LTIP Units will only vest into shares of the company’s common stock if certain total return to shareholder (TRS) targets are met. TRS is a measure of the company’s stock price performance that includes dividends. The LTIP Units have both absolute targets, based on the company’s own TRS performance, and relative targets, based on the company’s TRS performance compared to a peer group of over 100 companies. Our valuation of the LTIP Units accounted for all of these features.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has conducted a valuation of carried interest of a private equity firm for litigation support purposes. This high profile case was tried in Federal District Court and involved, among other things, the defendant’s First Amendment rights and allegations against the third largest pension fund in the United States. In addition to determining the value of the carried interest for several private equity funds, we determined the value of the management company and the general partner entities, and damages for lost compensation and lost management fees.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has conducted a purchase price allocation of a utility-scale solar operator in New Jersey. Electricity is generated and sold to the local power utility under a long-term power purchase agreement. A private equity firm acquired the company that owns and operates the facility, and hired Appraisal Economics to allocate the purchase price among the financial, tangible, and intangible assets of the company, including the real property, machinery and equipment (solar panels, inverters, and mounting hardware), a power purchase agreement, and goodwill.

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Appraisal Economics valued the legal rights to harness the flow of wind on a large tract of high plains acreage in the western United States. So-called “wind rights” permit the holder to generate renewable electricity by converting kinetic energy into electrical energy, which is sold in the wholesale utility market. Wind is one of the fastest growing sources of electricity in the United States, due in part to state mandates regarding the proportion of electricity generated from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and biomass, which are cleaner than traditional hydrocarbon-based energy sources. To value the wind rights, we used the income approach, which requires projecting future cash flows, allocating the total cash flows between the tangible real property and the intangible wind rights, and discounting to present value the cash flows that accrue to the owner of the wind rights. The results of our valuation were used by our client for tax purposes.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has conducted a purchase price allocation for a manufacturer of highly engineered building products. A private equity firm and a pension fund acquired the building materials manufacturer for total consideration in excess of $1 billion. The company operates several highly automated facilities across North America that produce a variety of synthetic building materials designed to replace wood, metal, and other traditional materials for both commercial and residential use. The company has some of the leading brands of synthetic decking, siding, railing, and pavers. Appraisal Economics allocated the purchase price among the financial, tangible, and intangible assets of the company. The assets included real property in two countries, machinery and equipment, leasehold interests, proprietary technology, trademarks, customer relationships, and goodwill. Once goodwill is placed on the balance sheet due to acquisition, it is tested at least annually for impairment.

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Appraisal Economics has valued equity interests in a joint venture between a petroleum company and a private equity firm. The joint venture owns and operates various interests in oil and gas wells in the Bakken Formation. Located in the Williston Basin, which encompasses North Dakota and Montana in the U.S. and parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada, this formation of shale, siltstone, and sandstone has emerged as an important region for U.S. oil and gas production. The joint venture explores, drills, and produces oil and gas from tracts of property operated under non-operating working interests (“NOWIs”) and overriding royalty interests (“ORRIs”). NOWIs do not operate the oil and gas wells, but are responsible for their share of the drilling and production costs. ORRIs are similar to royalty interests in mineral ownership but are limited by the term of the lease. When the lease expires, all rights to the minerals revert to the landowner. ORRIs do not bear the cost of drilling or production. Our client has a portfolio of NOWIs and ORRIs in shale formations such as the Bakken. Appraisal Economics has been engaged for several years to value partnership interests in this joint venture.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has conducted an analysis of fractional interests in real estate located in the southern United States. The fractional interests were held as tenants-in-common. Tenant-in-common interests are held by two or more owners each having an undivided interest. In this type of ownership, the interests are not necessarily equal in size and no one owner has unilateral control of the property. Accordingly, each tenant effectively holds a non-controlling and illiquid interest in the underlying real estate. Appraisal Economics applied appropriate lack of control and lack of marketability discounts to the pro rata values of the tenant-in-common interests and determined the fair market values of the interests for estate tax purposes.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has valued the equity of a manufacturer and distributor of dairy products. The company distributes cheese and dairy products to national supermarket chains, grocery stores, and local bodegas throughout the eastern United States. The company produces a wide range of cheeses and dairy products including fresh, natural, aged, and melting cheeses, creams, drinkable yogurts, and desserts. Appraisal Economics Inc. valued the common equity of the company for gift and estate tax planning purposes. Our analysis included determining the business enterprise value and equity value of the company using the income approach and discounting the per share value for lack of control and lack of marketability to determine the fair market value of the company’s equity.

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Appraisal Economics Inc. has valued a medical group consisting of six medical practices affiliated through one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in the Northeast. The six practices are integrated with a management services organization (“MSO”), which administers most non-clinical aspects of the practices, including billing, collections, employment of non-clinical staff, and so forth. The MSO also owns most of the practices’ property and equipment, and leases the office space used by the practices. Appraisal Economics was engaged to determine the fair market value of the medical practices for financial reporting purposes related to their acquisition.

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