IP valuations
Valuing your intangible assets
An IP valuation helps organisations to determine the monetary value of their intangible assets, including software, data, know-how, patents, trade marks, copyrights, and trade secrets. We evaluate a wide range of factors, such as the type of IP assets, their legal protection, market potential for the products or services supported by the assets, and any risks to commercialisation. By providing a thorough and detailed valuation, S&W|ClearViewIP helps organisations understand the true value of their IP, enabling them to make informed strategic decisions.
What are the benefits of an IP valuation?
Whether you are seeking funding through equity or asset based lending, planning a merger or a joint venture, or considering licensing or selling your intangible assets, having a clear understanding of their value is critical to successfully achieving your goal. An IP Valuation can help you to identify commercialisation risks, risks around meeting business projections, or other important milestones.
Understanding how the value of your underlying IP changes as your business grows and expands can assist in important decisions around fundraising, collaborations and joint ventures, and opportunities to deliver additional revenue streams to the business, for example through IP licensing.
When should you seek one?
M&A: The value attributable to IP assets can significantly influence the enterprise value during business transactions
IP transactions: Licensing or selling IP requires understanding its value to negotiate terms effectively
Investment and fundraising: Investors often examine a company’s IP portfolio to gauge growth potential and protect downside risk
Joint ventures: Valuing IP helps determine contributions and equity allocation in partnerships
Strategic planning and management: Informed decisions on R&D investments, market entry, and competitive positioning
Litigation and dispute resolution: Reliable IP valuation supports damage claims or settlement terms in disputes
Collateral for loans: Using IP as collateral for securing loans from specialist banks
Financial reporting and compliance: Legal and tax requirements for IP asset valuation in transactions
Taxation: IP valuation impacts transfer pricing, tax planning, and compliance
Insolvency: Valuing IP assets to determine potential distressed market value for creditors
