Case Study: Pellegrino & Associates achieves court-defensible IP valuations for early-stage companies with Palisade's @RISK

Pellegrino & Associates - Customer Case Study

Pellegrino & Associates, a boutique valuation firm specializing in software and intellectual property, faced the challenge of valuing early‑stage IP with no market history for use in civil litigation. To generate a defensible fair‑market value from highly uncertain assumptions, the firm used Palisade’s @RISK risk analysis software to run Monte Carlo simulations on discounted future‑income models.

Using Palisade’s @RISK, Pellegrino & Associates built an integrated decision‑tree and discounted cash‑flow model with 35 simulated inputs and quantified uncertainty across dozens of variables; the technique has been applied in over 300 client engagements and, in every court case where Monte Carlo simulation was used, the results were accepted. The court in the highlighted case found their analysis competent and easy to understand, enabling Pellegrino & Associates to present clear, defensible valuations and increasing confidence in their conclusions.

Pellegrino & Associates

Michael Pellegrino

Owner