Sale and leaseback – a model for increasing trust in IP assets?

Articles, Intellectual Property Assets
Placing a tangible financial value on a brand and then leveraging that value remains a frustratingly opaque process. However, the creation of secondary markets to sell IP assets has encouraged lenders to look more closely at this asset class. The power and value of a brand are rarely contested; in fact, brands are often considered to be a business’s most valuable ...

IP Assets Might Lift Some of the Dark Shadows Around the Retail Sector

Articles, Intellectual Property Assets
Missing intellectual property opportunities Having worked on IP valuations to support a number of CVAs in the last 12 months, we’ve seen many poor examples of retail businesses which are rich in IP assets (brands, store formats, online IP collateral, product partnerships etc.) that are contributing to revenue generation, yet the IP assets are still not being fully exploited.  We ...