Larry Grant specializes in the appraisals of businesses and their tangible and intangible assets, including goodwill. He has performed and supervised valuations of major proportion and complexity for many years. Mr. Grant values non-controlling minority interests in corporations, limited liability companies, family limited partnerships, and general partnerships, as well as fractional interests and tenants-in-common interests in real estate. He has also valued preferred, common voting and common non-voting classes of stock.

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Valuations performed by Mr. Grant have been employed for estate planning; estate, gift, and Federal tax matters; for stock options and stock purchase agreements; partnerships and stockholder disagreements; corporate dissolutions under Section 2000 of the California Corporations Code; loss of goodwill in eminent domain matters; in marital dissolutions; in business litigation or in lieu of litigation; and for the estimation of damages and “but for” loss of profit determinations.

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On many marital dissolutions, Mr. Grant has been selected as the single appraiser buy stipulation between counsel on behalf of both parties in litigated matters. He has also been appointed as the Court’s own appraiser or Master in marital dissolutions and other litigated matters. He has successfully allocated assets between community and separate property in these matters.

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Mr. Grant has been appointed by the Court in some two dozen California Code Section 2000 dissolutions, and as the Court’s own appraiser and master in litigated matters. He has also been appointed as the single appraiser for both litigants in marriage dissolution proceedings by the Superior Court and by stipulation between attorneys.

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On two occasions, valuations he conducted were affirmed by the California Court of Appeal. One case involved a dissolution of marriage matter, affirmed as to approach and opinion by the California Court of Appeal (Marriage of Hilliard, 2nd Civ. No. 52898, unpublished). Superior Court Case No. D 858 256. The other matter involved a corporate dissolution under Section 2000 of the California Corporations Code which was affirmed as to approach and opinion of value in Abrams vs. Abrams-Rubiloff & Co. 114 Cal. App. 3d 240, 170 Cal. Rptr. 656 (1980).

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In the course of his work, Mr. Grant has valued such identifiable intangible assets as patents, patent applications, contracts, royalties, franchises, mailing lists, and non-competition agreements.

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Mr. Grant’s appraisal career began at Marshall & Stevens, Inc., a national valuation firm., and Tait Appraisal Company, a regional appraisal company. Mr. Grant ultimately decided to resign from his position as Appraisal Services Director of the Western Region for Marshall and Stevens, Inc., and start his own firm, Business Enterprise Appraisal Company.

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Mr. Grant attended and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a minor in real property. He has also completed appraisal and graduate courses from UCLA Extension.