Background and Experience

Orchard Partners' Clients

Most of Orchard’s client relationships begin with a referral from the company’s accountant or attorney. Orchard’s clients tend to be privately-held entities or small public companies. (Roughly one in four of Orchard’s clients is publicly traded.) Often, the need for appraisal services is driven by a financial reporting issue related to an acquisition, the issuance of options or a financing. While the majority are located in New England, Orchard has worked with clients around the U.S. Orchard does not specialize in a particular industry, but more than half of its clients provide a technology based product or service. Orchard has sold companies in the instrumentation, education and consumer products industries.

Joel F. Johnson

Joel F. Johnson, ASA has been advising clients in mergers & acquisitions and valuing companies since the mid 1980s. Joel founded Orchard Partners in 1998.

Joel has been designated an Accredited Senior Appraiser by the American Society of Appraisers, and he holds NASD Series 7 certification. He serves on the Applications Issues Task Force advising the Securities and Exchange Commission on valuation issues related to the implementation of financial accounting standards numbers 141 and 142. He regularly publishes articles on topics in corporate finance in M&A Today and other publications. Representative articles include Who Needs a Fairness Opinion?, Valuing Intangible Assets, Valuing High Tech Companies and Selecting the Right Multiple.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Boston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, on the Listing Committee for the Boston Stock Exchange and as President of the Board of Trustees for the Fruitlands Museums.

Prior to forming his own company, Joel worked for Fechtor, Detwiler & Co., American Broadcasting Companies and General Electric Credit Corporation. Joel has an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado, where he was a Rockwell Scholar, and he is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College.

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