LOST PROFITS & ECONOMIC DAMAGES ANALYSIS
Independent Lost Profits & Economic Damages Analysis for Business Disputes
When a contract dispute, business interruption, or alleged wrongful act affects a company's financial performance, determining the resulting economic loss requires more than calculating lost revenue.
Business Valuation Advisors, Inc. (BVA) provides independent lost-profits and economic-damages analysis for attorneys and business owners involved in commercial disputes, contract terminations, business interruptions, and contested financial matters.
Our analyses examine historical financial performance, expected but-for results, avoided operating costs, mitigation, and alternative causes of financial underperformance to develop documented and supportable calculations of economic loss.
Led by Joshua Himan, CVA®, BCA®, FMVA®, with more than 15 years of private-company valuation and financial-analysis experience, BVA delivers objective financial analysis, clearly explained assumptions, and professional reports tailored to the needs of counsel.
- Lost Profits & Business Interruption
- Breach-of-Contract Financial Analysis
- Economic Damages & Rebuttal Analysis
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Independent Financial Analysis for Commercial Losses & Business Disputes
Financial analysis of claimed lost profits arising from breached agreements, contract terminations, and alleged nonperformance. BVA evaluates historical earnings, expected but-for performance, avoided operating costs, mitigation, and the applicable loss period to estimate the economic consequences under the agreed assignment framework.
Analysis of financial losses associated with interrupted operations, delayed production, facility disruptions, and other business interruptions. We examine revenue shortfalls, contribution margins, continuing expenses, recovery periods, and available financial evidence to distinguish attributable losses from ordinary business fluctuations.
Evaluation of financial losses attributed to customer departures, canceled contracts, lost sales opportunities, or disrupted commercial relationships. Analysis may consider historical customer revenue, contract terms, retention patterns, available operating capacity, avoided costs, and the reliability of projected replacement business.
Analysis of alleged reductions in enterprise or equity value arising from commercial disputes or business impairments. Where an appropriate legal framework supports this measure, BVA evaluates changes in prospective cash flows, operating risk, and business value while distinguishing diminished-value claims from overlapping lost-profit calculations.
Reconstruction of financial performance using accounting records, tax returns, general ledgers, bank activity, customer information, and operating data. BVA develops normalized historical results, evaluates financial discrepancies, and constructs transparent actual-versus-but-for earnings models supported by documented assumptions and sensitivity analysis.
Independent evaluation of existing damages calculations, opposing financial analyses, forecasts, and expert work products. BVA examines assumptions, source reliability, avoided costs, loss periods, discounting, mitigation, and analytical consistency to identify material weaknesses, alternative interpretations, and financial conclusions requiring further support.