Evergreen Insights
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Should you hire a Neutral Valuation Expert?
The need for expert valuation services is increasing in today’s litigious environment. The valuation of closely-held business interests and related assets in the context of tax, corporate transactions and legal disputes is necessary to properly resolve matters and make key financial decisions. In contentious situations such as divorce or shareholder disputes, it is typical for…
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Life Science Revolution: Raising Capital
Rick Kohr was recently interviewed at the Maryland Life Sciences’ first annual Bio-Innovation Conference, which was held on October 7, 2019. Marty Rosendale, CEO of MTC and host of the Capital M podcast, sits down Rick to discuss access to capital in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic. He discusses what investors are looking for when meeting…
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Cybersecurity Continues to Grow, Attract Venture Capital Funding
The cybersecurity industry will continue to remain a growth industry with the internet and its related threats routinely appearing in various new forms. Security is continually evolving — what worked to protect the internet user a year ago is not effective today. This year has brought a flood of new venture capital funding in cybersecurity, following up…
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Evergreen’s Rick Kohr featured in The Business Monthly
This month Rick Kohr, CEO of Evergreen Advisors is featured in The Business Monthly with a Q&A on venture capital. With the venture capital market hopping with big money deals and his company planning a (partial) move to the South Baltimore’s glitzy Port Covington project, Rick Kohr, the founding member and CEO of Columbia-based Evergreen…
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Changing ESOP Valuation Providers
While the appraisal of an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) is very similar to other types of valuations of a private company, there are some complexities that require valuation expertise in ESOPs. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) requires Trustees to obtain appraisals by independent valuation professionals to support ESOP transactions. An…
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2019 M&A Observations
You would have to be completely unplugged from the media if you have not seen multiple headlines over the past few years profiling mergers and acquisition activity at record levels and record valuations. According to the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances, United States M&A volume as measured by transaction value was over $1.9 Trillion…
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2019 Cyber M&A
2019 continues to be another robust year for cyber M&A transactions. The first half of 2019, M&A deal volume is up 31% over the first half of 2018.¹ We all remember last’s years IPO of locally based Tenable Software and the activity continues with this month’s debut of software maker, Crowdstrike Holdings, a cloud-native endpoint…
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From Smithsburg To CEO of Northrop Grumman
Kathy Warden was born and grew up in the small town of Smithsburg, Maryland. She graduated from James Madison University in 1992 and in the early part of her career she worked for GE, Verizon, and General Dynamics. She joined Northrop Grumman in 2008 as Vice President and General Manager of the Cybersecurity division. In…
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Evergreen Advisors Capital Named Moxie Finalist
Evergreen Advisors Capital, a middle market Investment Bank is pleased to announce that it has been named a 2019 Moxie Award finalist. The Moxie Award program honors the accomplishments and achievements of growing businesses, nonprofits, and associations in the DC metro community. Organizations are recognized for having demonstrated boldness and innovation as an integral part…
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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Attila Security
In this Entrepreneur Spotlight, we are highlighting Attila Security located in Fulton, MD with Datatribe. Attila Security is the leader in portable IP security. Their award-winning GoSilent technology was originally developed at NSA designed to protect government and enterprises from advanced cyber attacks, zero-day threats, and data theft. Built for the cloud world where traditional network…