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    How Does Your Business Grow? The Importance of Growth Assumptions in Delaware Appraisal Rulings

    An important input to many valuations for disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery is a business’s terminal value; the future value of a business that reflects all the cash flows expected to occur after the period for which management or analysts typically prepare cash flow projections. In this Q&A, the article’s authors explain how the assumptions underlying such calculations affect the valuation results when employing different valuation methodologies. In valuation disputes, adjudicators critically examine the methods and assumptions used by opposing experts when estimating a business’s future value. An important input to many valuations for disputes in the Delaware…