Client Success: Mandatory Adoption of ASC 842 – Incremental Borrowing Rate Analysis for Private Biotech
By Jeff Suchocki, CFA The Situation: Adoption of ASC 842 – Lease Accounting is mandatory for all private companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021. To comply with this mandatory adoption requirement, a privately held, clinical stage biotech company needed to understand a reasonable discount rate for multiple lease agreements. The company requested […]
Why Valuation Matters in Early-Stage Life Sciences
“Value”, the outcome of a thorough valuation analysis, is ultimately what parties agree to. Sometimes this seems a rational outcome, other times an irrational one. The reality is that a life sciences or healthcare technology company’s valuation often results from the ability or inability to create an effective bidding process and to persuade/anchor a strategic […]
Client Success: Commercial Assessment for Crossover Investor-Funded Private Biotech
THE PROBLEM: Novel technology platform could be used across a wide range of rare diseases, so executive team and board want an independent, evidence-based view of commercial opportunity to complement the scientific analysis. THE SOLUTION: Interviews with KOL physician-scientists to understand unmet need and applicability of technology to targets, detailed pipeline analysis, market modeling and […]
