Laura Matthews serves as a senior financial analyst with Mercer Capital. Mercer Capital is a premier business valuation and investment banking firm serving a national and international clientele. Business valuation services are provided for a wide variety of needs, including but not limited to corporate valuation services, tax compliance, litigation support, financial statement reporting compliance, and employee stock ownership plans. Clients range from public to private, from smaller companies to large multi-nationals in a broad range of industries as well as numerous governmental agencies. In addition, Mercer Capital provides investment banking and corporate advisory services including sell-side and buy-side merger & acquisition representation, fairness opinions, solvency opinions, business interest and securities valuation, and board presentations, among others.Ms. Matthews’ practice primarily involves the valuation of banks and bank holding entities for purposes of corporate and transaction planning to include employee stock ownership plan transaction pricing, litigation support, and gift and estate tax compliance Ms. Matthews has also participated in a number of appraisals of operating companies, including businesses involved in manufacturing, retail, and services, and asset-holding entities. Purposes of such valuations have included gift and estate tax compliance, employee stock ownership plan transaction pricing, litigation support, and corporate planning, among others. |