IP Valuation—Beyond the Income and Cost Approach Valuation analysts (“analysts”) are often asked to value debtor company intellectual property (IP) within a business bankruptcy context. Some of the bankruptcy reasons to value IP include the assessment of the following: the debtor’s solvency, a secured creditor’s collateral and protection, the fairness of a Section 363 IP asset sale or license, the debtor’s rejection of its IP licenses (and the implications of that rejection on the IP licensees) under Bankruptcy Code Section 365(n), and the reasonableness of a plan of reorganization. Many analysts immediately think of applying income approach or cost approach…