High tech: assessment of intangible assets

Technical and financial assessment of technology Know-How.

Need

This company focuses on the design and production of components and technologies for application satellites, as well as telecommunications and remote sensing services. With a turnover of €120 million and over 280 employees, the company has been growing steadily since its foundation in 2017. The company explained to us that it needed to increase the financial value of its technology Know-How concerning a time and frequency synchronisation system based on established telecommunication techniques (FBMA - an alternative to GMSS which is intended for broadcasting services and, in general, professional users needing precision timing within a nanosecond range).

Solution

WIL was involved in several areas:

• collection and analysis of quality-related, accounting, and technical information, as well as business planning;
  
• examination of the company's technology Know-How and the legal protection measures in place, in addition to identification and assessment of the core technical and financial parameters;
  
• evaluation and selection of the assessment methodology through analysis of the main technical and financial factors and the factors which prevent assessment of the intangible asset in question;
  
• preparation of a technical/financial assessment report on the company's technology Know-How, accompanied by appendixes and documents to help understand and verify the results obtained.
  

Benefits

• Use of the assessment of the company's Know-How for support in the event of exceptional corporate transactions, in particular contributions of business units