Banister Financial, located in Charlotte, North Carolina, specializes solely in preparing business valuations of privately-owned businesses, professional practices, partnerships, LLCs, and other types of businesses and business interests. Our clients range from small companies and professional practices to large national and multi-national companies. Banister Financial is one of the leading business valuation firms in America, with professionals recognized as experts by their peers nationally. Two of our professionals are authors of a leading business valuation book used by other valuators in the field. Business Valuation Services Offered- Banister Financial prepares business and.professional practice valuations for a variety of reasons including: -Divorce -Court appointed valuations in disputes -Minority shareholder disputes, corporate dissolution, related litigation -Business damages -Estate/gift tax, other tax related needs -Family limited partnerships and LLCs -Restricted public stock held by estates -Blockage issues related to publicly traded shares held by estates or for gift or estate planning -Conversion to subchapter-S corporation status -Preferred stock recapitalizations -Health care transactions, ventures (e.g. lithotripsy, ambulatory surgery, imaging centers) -Medical, dental and related practices -Merger and acquisition and transaction-related business valuation needs -Notes -"Reasonable" compensation analyses in C corporations