The assessment of a firm's ability to remain solvent after a leveraged financial transaction requires a solid understanding of capital structures, underlying assets, and basic valuation principles. Since the great recession, these solvency opinions have taken on new importance as the transactions they cover fall under greater regulatory scrutiny. In part one of BVR's Advanced Webinar Series on Valuations for Business Transactions, series curator Craig Jacobson and attorney Stephen Selbst examine the best practices, emerging trends, and upcoming challenges for the determination and authorship of solvency opinions.

• Solvency opinion basics
• The three solvency tests
• The balance sheet test
• The cash flow test
• The adequate capital test
• Valuation reconciliation & solvency opinion conclusion
• Litigation factors
• Legal & regulatory issues
• Summary & conclusion

• Define how, when, and form whom a solvency opinion is created
• Associate appropriate methodologies with solvency opinion objectives
• Identify the legal and regulatory factors that govern solvency opinions
• Determine the proper use and implementation of solvency opinions