Brian Buss is a Managing Director with GlassRatner. A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 30 years of experience in valuations, financial analysis, and corporate finance around the world. Mr. Buss provides strategic advice for owners of intellectual property portfolios, transaction support and due diligence for acquisitions, licensing, divestiture and partnership transactions, expert testimony regarding economic damages, valuation and IP asset apportionment in civil litigation, and valuations of trademarks, patents, copyrights, brand assets, trade secrets, technology assets, and intangibles.
During his career Mr. Buss has provided valuation opinions and transaction advisory services for clients across the United States and overseas. Mr. Buss has provided advisory services and financial analyses for acquisitions, corporate lending, licensing and franchising, start-up financing, restructuring, tax and estate planning, price optimization, intellectual property infringement and economic damages claims.
- Valuation & Expert Testimony
- Economic Damages
- Financial Analysis
- Intellectual Property
- Transaction Support & Due Diligence
- Litigation Support
- Provided expert testimony in Federal Court, State Court, US Tax Court, US arbitration and international arbitration regarding economic damages, IP valuation, and business valuation.
- Expert opinions and testimony regarding economic damages and profit apportionment in cases involving copyright infringement, patent infringement, Lanham Act claims, business interruption, bankruptcy, breach of contract, defamation, taxation, and trade secret misappropriation.
- Strategic advisory services based on IP, brand, and business valuation for global clients, including:
- Development of valuation models to test revenue model and pricing strategies for a not-for-profit industry association;
- Valuation of brands and trademarks for a consumer products company considering a name change; and valuation of digital media, YouTube content, music and publishing assets;
- Valuation of intellectual properties to evaluate exit strategies for investor groups in wireless communications, healthcare, and pharmaceutical companies;
- Transaction due diligence and royalty analysis for franchisors, licensors, and licensees;
- Valuation of copyright, trademark and technology IP for restructuring, estate planning, and bankruptcy.
- CFA Institute: CFA Charter holder, Chartered Financial Analysts Society of San Diego
- International Trademark Association (INTA): IP Reporting Presidential Task Force; Commercialization of Brands Committee (Vice-Chair); IP Accounting & Brand Valuation Standards Project; 2023 INTA Service Award winner; Former Co-chair of the Brand Valuation and Evaluation subcommittee
- Licensing Executives Society (LES), Brands as a Business Committee, Valuation and Pricing Committee
- IR Global, exclusive member for business and asset valuations in California
- San Diego State University, Fowler College of Business, Management Department Advisory Board