Value, Insight and Counsel

Waterford Advisors Launches

The First Market-Based Platform for Private Firm Valuation

PRINCETON, NJ – October 26, 2004

Waterford Advisors LLC, a corporate finance and strategic advisory firm serving emerging and established companies, announced today the launch of NUMERIA (www.numeria.us), a platform that delivers objective and robust corporate valuations in real-time from multiple independent analysts.

NUMERIA serves private companies that are raising capital, negotiating joint venture or M&A transactions, or evaluating the effect of key strategic decisions on their enterprise value. NUMERIA is the first technology platform to facilitate real-time communication among independent analysts, one in which clients observe the price discovery process in its market-based environment. The formal launch of NUMERIA coincides with its largest valuation thus far, that of a private software firm in the mid-Atlantic region with over $40 million in revenue.

According to Peter J. Leitner, managing partner of Waterford Advisors, “The need for objective, independent and robust valuations compelled our team at Waterford to create NUMERIA. It responds to repeated demand for a strategic solution that delivers a fair and objective valuation to management, which they in turn can use to optimize value.”

 

Leitner explains that a private firm seeks an objective valuation for at least one of three critical reasons. First, it is the basis for making rational decisions before or while pursuing financing, M&A or joint venture transactions. Second, it provides a benchmark that links operating performance to value creation. And third, it identifies barriers to maximum enterprise value, which then can be addressed by management.

About Waterford Advisors LLC

Waterford Advisors provides corporate valuation, strategic assessment, and professional management services to life science and technology firms. Established in 1993 in New York City, it is currently based in Princeton, New Jersey.

 

For additional information, please contact:
Peter Leitner
Managing Partner Waterford Advisors LLC, (609) 951-2233
www.waterfordadvisors.com

 

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