Tarrant County’s Business Valuation Expert for Attorneys
Jeffrey H. Harwell, CVA, MAFF, CMEA. Litigation-ready business valuation, financial forensics, and machinery and equipment appraisal. Based in Tarrant County. Twenty-plus years inside the courthouse and the courtroom.
What I do, plainly
Three credentials, three service lines, one signature on every report. Each engagement is scoped to the standard of value and the procedural posture of the matter, then executed under the governing professional standard.
Business Valuation (CVA)
Defensible opinions of value for divorce, estate and gift, buy-sell, dissolution, and corporate transactions. Calculation engagement or valuation engagement under SSVS No. 1, depending on what the matter requires.
Business Valuation services →Financial Forensics & Damages (MAFF)
Lost profits, lost earnings, asset tracing, and fraud examinations. Reports built to survive Daubert and TRCP 194 disclosure, with a clear schedule of opinions and methodology.
Forensics & Damages services →Machinery & Equipment Appraisal (CMEA)
USPAP-compliant appraisals for financing, SBA loans, divorce, litigation support, and cost segregation. Fair market value in-place, orderly liquidation, and forced liquidation values reported to the appropriate premise.
M&E Appraisal services →Why attorneys choose Harwell & Company
Four reasons trial counsel routinely cite when they retain us instead of a Dallas or out-of-state expert.
Local.
Based in Tarrant County. No travel premium. No “Dallas expert” pushback in front of a Tarrant jury.
Court-ready.
Reports built to Robinson, Gammill, and Daubert / Rule 702 standards. Schedule of opinions, methodology, and data sources documented for every engagement.
Three credentials, one expert.
CVA for valuation. MAFF for damages and forensics. CMEA for machinery and equipment. One signature on the report and one expert in deposition.
Texas-specific fluency.
Personal goodwill versus enterprise goodwill, TRCP 194 disclosure timing, normalizing adjustments, community property versus separate property tracing, valuation date selection. We have been doing this here for two decades.
How an engagement starts
The first conversation is short. The first deliverable is a conflict check. The rest follows a predictable path so counsel can plan around it.
Conflict check (within 24 hours)
Submit caption and parties; we confirm we can take the engagement before any privileged information changes hands.
Engagement letter
Scope, retainer, fee structure, deliverables, and the standard of value to be applied. Calculation engagement or valuation engagement is selected here, not later.
Document request
Tax returns, financial statements, contracts, depositions, and prior valuations. Tracing schedules and normalizing adjustments are built from the source documents, not from summaries.
Report
Calculation engagement under SSVS No. 1 section 21, or valuation engagement under SSVS No. 1 section 10, per the needs of the matter. Schedule of opinions ready for TRCP 194 disclosure on request.
Ready to start?
Start a conflict check or call (817) 385-1866.
Recent thinking
Selected writing and references. More to follow.
The Z-Score Revisited
An analytical look at the Altman Z-Score as a financial distress indicator, with practical adjustments for closely held companies. Published in QuickRead.
Read on QuickRead →Damages Advocate case study
How tooling supports defensible damages workflow. Case study published by ValuSource.
Read on ValuSource →More writing in progress
Forthcoming notes on personal goodwill, lost profits and the but-for analysis, and the calculation engagement versus valuation engagement distinction under SSVS No. 1.
Visit Insights →Contact
Phone: (817) 385-1866
Office: 11816 Ferndale Lane, Aledo, TX 76008
Service area: Tarrant County, Parker County, Fort Worth, and north Texas. Machinery and equipment appraisal extends across Texas and Oklahoma.
About the author. Written by Jeff Harwell, CVA, MAFF, CMEA, Principal of Harwell & Company. Read full bio.
Last updated: April 26, 2026.