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Insurance | Fixed Assets | Ghost Assets | Structured Finance
STRUCTURED FINANCE
We help develop the valuation structure necessary to support significant tax oriented sale/leasebacks for a variety of off-balance sheet finance programs, including the structures preferred in cross-border and municipal transactions. Opinions such as the following are used to support the tax, accounting and investment documents required for real estate sale/leasebacks:
- “Go dark” valuations
- Asset suitability opinions
- Economic “useful life” estimates
- Land lease options
- Lease supporting letters
- MACRs classifications
- Market value determinations
- Purchase options
- Residual value opinions
- Synthetic leasing
- Tax opinions for structuring transactions
Our leasing group specializes in valuing major capital assets, including:
- Automobile manufacturing and assembly operations
- Computers and technology
- Food service and hospitality facilities
- High speed rail lines
- Locomotive fleets
- Luxury cruise liners
- Manufacturing plants
- Medical and healthcare facilities
- Petrochemical plants
- Power generating, transmission and distribution facilities
- Telecommunication equipment and facilities
The Leasing and Structured Finance Group of Marshall & Stevens provides timely, innovative solutions to the entire spectrum of participants in the asset financing market – from the small lessor to large financial institutions. With over 70 years of experience, we pride ourselves on our ability to demonstrate a complete understanding of our clients needs and financial goals, and provide our clients with the necessary input and solutions to the challenges they face.
Working with investment bankers, lenders, attorneys, and lessors around the globe, Marshall & Stevens provides the necessary valuation opinions to support a wide variety of transactions including:
- Leveraged Lease Financing
- Synthetic Leases
- Sale/Leasebacks
- OFSC Structures
- Service Contracts
- Litigation
- US Cross-Border Leases
- QTE Leases
- Project Financing
- Portfolio Review
- Lease End Negotiations
- Corp. Planning and Consulting
- Rent Strip Analysis
We are pleased to provide no-obligation consultation to our clients in the formative stages of a transaction, and encourage clients to call us for insights into complex valuation issues that they may not be familiar with, as well as for traditional valuation transaction issues.
Our practice is headquartered in New York where we have a full-time, permanently staffed and dedicated group addressing Leasing and Structured Finance Services. These individuals are also familiar with the relevant IRS Revenue Procedures that fix the standards with which true or guideline leases must comply. Most importantly, by concentrating full time in this field, we work closely with tax counsel to support the tax opinions necessary to consummate "nonguideline" transactions.
Our group is also familiar with the US GAAP financial reporting standards determining the characterization of leasing transactions for off-balance sheet purposes. Consequently, the individual members of our structured financing group bring a great deal of sensitivity and intelligence to each new transaction, reflecting their cumulative experience with previous transactions.
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