Overview

Expert Real Asset Valuation Services

As a trusted real asset valuer, we specialize in determining the economic value of physical, tangible assets for a diverse range of purposes and stakeholders. Our services adhere to internationally accepted valuation standards, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and reliability for your critical business decisions.

Our Comprehensive Valuation Services Include:

I. Core Tangible Asset Valuations We appraise a wide array of physical assets, including:

• General Tangible Assets: Valuing a company's physical property, encompassing both real property (land, buildings, leases) and personal property (equipment, machinery, furniture, fixtures, leasehold improvements).

• Real Property Valuation: Specializing in real estate assets such as office buildings, warehouses, retail spaces, and development properties. Our assessments consider market price, property tax norms, local regulations, building type, location, size, construction materials, age, and revenue potential.

• Plant and Machinery Valuation: Determining the current or market value of industrial equipment, machinery, and specialized assets across various industries, including assessing their residual life.

• Inventory and Raw Materials Valuation: Assessing stock-in-trade, raw goods, and finished products, including accounting for obsolete or unmarketable stocks.

• Fixed Asset Management Services: Offering detailed review and correction of fixed asset registers, including creating, reconciling, verifying, and tagging assets to track condition, location, and performance. This also covers data integration, validation, and remediation.

• Valuation of Specific Asset Types: Valuing diverse assets like aircraft, commercial and industrial buildings and land, commercial and passenger vehicle fleets, computer and office equipment, infrastructure assets (airports, railways), oil refineries, power plants, railcars, containers, telecommunications networks, flats, godowns, automobiles, fishing boats, trawlers, and furniture and fixtures.

II. Valuation for Specific Purposes Our valuations support various strategic, financial, and regulatory needs:

• Financial Reporting and Accounting: Ensuring transparency and accuracy in financial statements, conducting impairment testing (e.g., IND AS 36), assessing investment property fair value (e.g., IND AS 40), and providing valuations for business combinations and asset acquisitions.

• Taxation: Performing property tax assessments, valuations for gift and estate tax, real estate transfer tax, transfer pricing, depreciation studies, capital gain (as on 01/04/2001), wealth tax, income tax, customs, and excise purposes.

• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures (M&A): Determining fair prices for tangible assets, conducting pre-acquisition due diligence, assisting with divestitures, supporting purchase price allocation (PPA), and company mergers under the Companies Act.

• Insurance Purposes: Conducting insurance appraisals for adequate coverage and risk assessment, assisting in filing insurance claims, ensuring compliance, providing valuations on a reinstatement value basis, and supporting claim recovery.

• Financing and Lending: Providing collateral valuation for loans, supporting refinancing processes and secured lending, performing lease portfolio analysis, and valuations for institutional finance.

• Strategic Decision-Making: Identifying opportunities for asset optimization, informing decisions on asset utilization and disposal, supporting investment strategies, and developing tailored asset management (AM) strategies.

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Offering expert valuation for legal matters such as estate settlements, divorces, buy-out agreements, partnership dissolutions, and providing defensible valuation reports.

• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring valuation practices align with industry best practices (e.g., ISO 55000), complying with specific acts (e.g., Companies Act 2013, FEMA, IBBC), and adhering to International Valuation Standards (IVS) and RICS Red Book Global Standards.

• Chartered Engineer Certificates: Providing certifications for imported/exported machinery, 100% depreciation, repairs, estimations, and certificates of loss for income tax not covered by insurance.

Why Choose Us?

With over 47 years of experience since our founding in 1978 and more than twenty thousand successful assignments, we are a leading firm in real asset valuation, serving individuals, private businesses, and reputed corporates nationwide. Our long-standing expertise allows us to provide valuations for a vast range of assets, including tangible and intangible property, plant and machinery, cargo, and marine surveying.

We employ robust methodologies, utilizing the Cost, Market, and Income approaches. Our process involves various types of inspections, from detailed physical assessments to technology-based virtual and desktop reviews, ensuring thorough data collection and analysis to develop a credible opinion of value. Beyond valuation, we also offer specialized services such as approval of factory plans, testing of lifting equipment, structural and energy audits, and safety reports.

By choosing us, you gain a partner committed to providing essential insights that drive financial transparency, informed decision-making, and overall business success.