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BVR's "Fairness Opinion Research Service" (FORS) is a resource that provides immediate and full access to hundreds of filed fairness opinions and enables professionals to easily know “what’s market” as well as benchmark their work against hundreds of board books, opinion summaries, and opinion letters filed at the SEC over the last five years. The FORS intuitive interface lets a user screen fairness opinions using up to 68 criteria options. The FORS reports provide cost of capital and WACC conclusions, GPC and M&A multiples, forecasted earnings and growth, consideration type, corporate action, industry classification, target company description, participants and opinion issuance date.

First Research Industry Profiles, State Profiles, and Canadian Province Profiles provide detailed industry and economic analysis in thousands of segments. Reports provide key insights into industry and geographic areas. Each industry profile includes important sections on critical issues, a quarterly industry update, industry overview, financial ratios, business trends, and industry forecasts. Reports are available on a subscription or single report basis. Historical reports are available with a subscription.

HLHZ is a control premium study provided by BVR Resources. It is a subscription-based service.

The ktMINE royalty rates database provides an efficient and organized gateway to canvass the landscape of intellectual property (IP) licensing payments and agreement terms. This interactive database provides direct access to royalty rates, full-text licensing agreements, and detailed agreement summaries. With precise search functionality, robust data mining capabilities, and a time-saving analysis center, ktMINE quickly finds market comparables from 18,000+ licensing agreements and 70,000+ royalty rates, with new agreements continuously added.

Factset Mergerstat provides support data for control premium and implied minority discount conclusions; it also provides acquisition data from the M&A marketplace, and the suite of Mergerstat/Factset resources. The Control premium study provided by Factset Mergerstat is a source of high quality US and International control premium data as well as financial details, pricing multiples and demographics. Mergerstat also provides an annual publication containing comprehensive statistics and analysis of M&A involving US companies, including privately held, publicly traded and cross-border transactions.

Online database which includes detailed information on the purchases of "Main Street" companies, middle market merger and acquisitions (M&A) of privately held companies, middle market merger and acquisitions of publicly traded companies, control premiums, implied minority discounts (discount for lack of control), discount for lack of marketability (DLOM), and financial benchmarking data.