Portfolio Valuations

Lincoln’s valuation expertise extends across the entire capital structure and stages of a company’s life cycle.

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With unparalleled insight into the private capital markets via the firm’s proprietary databases, indices and relationships, we provide clients with valuations that are based on up-to-date private market knowledge.

Discover the benefits of co-sourcing valuations with Lincoln

Greatly reducing time spent by GPs on the valuation preparation and quarterly maintenance of the valuation model

Ensuring “Best Practice” methodologies are applied across all portfolio companies

Independent perspective is encouraged by Limited Partners

Creating strong documentation and support to use with third parties such as auditors and/or regulators during annual testing or examinations

Generating professional reporting to support inputs and document conclusions reached

Valuations conclusions reached by Lincoln are expressed with a range, allowing for flexibility in the selection of a valuation conclusion which ultimately is chosen by the GP

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5,500+operating companies
50+sectors
350+subsectors
30%of the private equity market

Our proprietary database captures historical data to provide trended analyses for sample metrics such as:

Transaction multiples
Closing leverage and equity cushions
Historical and budgeted revenue and EBITDA growth
Comparative analyses relative to the industry

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Private Equity

Valuations of privately held businesses based on deep private market knowledge

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  • Direct Lending
  • Asset-Backed Finance
  • Structured Credit

Early Staged Investments

  • Growth Equity
  • Venture Equity
  • Venture Debt

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