Simon Priftis, CPA, CBV
Valuation Services
Simon is the founder of SP Valuations Inc., and has been in professional practice since 2017. He is an accredited finance professional with extensive knowledge and expertise in the field of business valuation as both a Chartered Business Valuator and a Chartered Professional Accountant.
Specializing in working with fast-growing public and private companies across a variety of industries and he has gained experience through senior positions at big four multinational and Canadian national valuation and accountancy firms.
Simon’s valuation work has been relied on by clients in the context of business asset and securities valuations, corporate reorganizations, litigation, and transaction advisory projects both as an independent expert and as an advocate helping clients navigate their complex valuation and transaction requirements.
Approach to Valuation
Measuring Value
Understanding the value of business interests or assets can be a highly complicated and important process. From valuing complex corporate structures, to calculating latent taxes or identifying intangible assets on acquisitions, intrinsic value is seldom limited to what’s presented within an existing set of financial statements.
As a valuation expert, Simon applies an analytical and forensic approach to determining true owner earnings. He ensures that key elements impacting your unique valuation are identified, and that planned future developments and anticipated growth don’t get overlooked.
This could mean pricing-in differences between reported, versus the actual earnings ability of a business, or assisting with valuations for a purchase price allocation, to meet financial or regulatory reporting requirements.
In assisting with your valuation, Simon’s work follows ever-emerging industry best-practices and is conducted in accordance with professionally accepted valuation standards. Simon also integrates benchmark research to support your valuation, which is uniquely relevant to your scenario.
Simon’s analytics work and valuation reports are complete, well founded, and defensible should they ever be challenged or contested. This affords you peace of mind and the ability to confidently move forward in navigating your decision making processes.
Creating Value
Creating and retaining long-term value for shareholders can be drastically influenced by the outcomes of the corporate development and investment transaction(s) your business is likely facing.
Through analyzing and the gathering of unique insight into what drives value for an acquisition target and its industry, or on a proposed transaction, Simon lends expert knowledge and support to senior management teams and business owners in helping navigate their acquisition decisions.
Simon can assist in identifying factors that create discrepancies between transaction price and value to owners, valuing synergies and intangible assets, appraising investment alternatives and helping safeguard against risks throughout the acquisition due diligence process. This ensures your business optimally allocates capital to the most profitable opportunities available, and lets you execute on investments while fully-informed, and with peace of mind.
By letting Simon help with his on-demand professional valuation and transaction insight, senior management teams and business owners can remain operationally focused, continue to build acquisition pipelines, and remain available to execute on post-acquisition or other integration efforts.