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Valuation, Financial & Industry Consulting

Summit Ridge Group, LLC is a leading financial and business valuation consulting boutique focused exclusively on the telecommunications, media, and satellite industries globally. Since 2008, clients have engaged us to provide objective perspectives on complex valuation-related matters involving high-stakes transaction decisions, litigation support, or financial restructuring matters. Our projects are often related to hard-to-value businesses or the valuation of intangible assets such as wireless spectrum licenses or satellite orbital slot authorizations. Summit Ridge Group is also a leader in reimbursement and compliance matters related to government funding projects.

Our senior team members are highly qualified valuation professionals and widely recognized expert thought leaders in their communications sector niches. Summit Ridge Group's business model encourages its senior professionals to spend more time researching and writing about the sector than their peers at larger firms with more overhead. We strive to continually advance our  knowledge, skills, and approaches to stay at the forefront of our profession. As industry thought leaders, we are not afraid to advance well-supported compelling perspectives that deviate from current consensus thinking. We push each other to continuously "reach higher."

Summit Ridge Group, LLC professionals provide a range of client financial and valuation consulting services while maintaining our exclusive focus in the telecom, media, and satellite sectors.

Transaction Advisory and Opinions

Including due diligence support, pre-deal valuations, and fairness opinions.

Due Diligence

Expert due diligence support and appraisals helpful in the transaction planning and evaluation process.

Litigation Support and Restructuring

For matters requiring financial and valuation skills, as well as recognized industry experts.

Sector Experts

Practice areas include valuation-related disputes, forensic financial analysis, and restructuring advisory.

Valuation Advisory Services

Deep valuation experience for financial reporting, tax, and dispute resolution.

Valuation Experts

We have particular expertise in television broadcasting, wireless communication, (including spectrum/FCC licenses), and satellite communications.

Financial, Industry & Policy Advisory

For companies and investors seeking in-depth analysis of topics for making important decisions.

World-Class Skills

Assignments may include analysis of market trends, technology developments, industry margins, strategy, or some combination. We also execute communications sector policy advisory assignments including white papers and legislative outreach.

Transaction Advisory and Opinions

Including due diligence support, pre-deal valuations, and fairness opinions.

Due Diligence

Expert due diligence support and appraisals helpful in the transaction planning and evaluation process.

Litigation Support and Restructuring

For matters requiring financial and valuation skills, as well as recognized industry experts.

Sector Experts

Practice areas include valuation-related disputes, forensic financial analysis, and restructuring advisory.

Valuation Advisory Services

Deep valuation experience for financial reporting, tax, and dispute resolution.

Valuation Experts

We have particular expertise in television broadcasting, wireless communication, (including spectrum/FCC licenses), and satellite communications

Financial, Industry & Policy Advisory

For companies and investors seeking in-depth analysis of topics for making important decisions.

World-Class Skills

Assignments may include analysis of market trends, technology developments, industry margins, strategy, or some combination. We also execute communications sector policy advisory assignments including white papers and legislative outreach.

Our ability to combine highly credible industry insights with our financial and valuation-related skills differentiates the quality of service we can provide.

Summit Ridge Group, LLC brings independent perspectives that can withstand intense scrutiny to our clients' matters. We have the industry and functional expertise to rigorously assess our clients' situations and provide substantive insights, including value drivers and market dynamics, related to their matters. Summit Ridge Group operates as a single team, avoiding information silos and bringing the firm's full knowledge, diverse perspectives, and resources to every client project.

Our process involves senior-level experts, supported by well-trained junior members, sweating the details and digging deep into the critical issues and assumptions that others may leave unchallenged. Working together daily makes our team efficient while continuously maintaining focus on developments in the communications sector - telecom, media, and satellite. We provide, and our clients typically expect, more than just a numerical valuation conclusion or a yes/no answer. We seek to offer insights and potential solutions unavailable elsewhere to our clients' particular situations or challenges. We are designed to limit conflicts. We have no auditing or investment banking relationships and are free from the potential conflicts from those types of engagements. Moreover, our potential conflicts are naturally limited by the number of engagements a firm of our size can handle.

Blog Posts

Hogan Lovells 2023 Winnik Forum on Open RAN

<<Full Notes (14 pages)>> Executive Summary The 2023 Hogan Lovells Winnik Forum focused on Open RAN ("O-RAN"). The major elements of the March 24th event were 1) Two policy keynote speakers - Anne Neuberger, Deputy National ...
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Unofficial Notes: SatNews’ SmallSat 2023 Symposium

<<Link to Full Notes (76 pages)>> Executive Summary SatNews' 2023 SmallSat Symposium was the largest ever, with 901 in-person attendees. However, the mood was somewhat subdued. The realization that financing will be tighter, and an inevitable ...
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Unofficial Notes from PTC-23

Pacific Telecommunications Counsil Conference 2023 - Unofficial Notes (Full Version - 44 pages) Here   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY One veteran consultant declared, "The PTC conference is the Davos of the telecom sector! Attendees have lots of honest ...
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Unofficial Notes from Euroconsult’s World Satellite Business Week 2022

<<Full Notes (52 pages) Here>> Executive Summary of Euroconsult's 2022 Conference held in Paris September 12th-14th, 2022 This year’s World Satellite Business Week Summit was the first “normal” satellite industry event since the COVID-19 outbreak. Pent-up ...
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FCC Answers FCBA-NY Chapter’s Questions on Rip and Replace Reimbursement

Yesterday, Armand Musey and I hosted a webinar on behalf of the NY Chapter of the FCBA, which featured Justin Faulb and Callie Coker of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau presenting an overview of the Secure ...
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Summit Ridge Group Bolsters Expertise in Advising Satellite, Telecom, Media, and Broadcast Industries with Appointment of Industry Experts

Robin Flynn joins as Advisor & Media Sector Consultant, Rebecca Hanson as Advisor & Regulatory Consultant, Whitney Q. Lohmeyer, Ph.D. as Advisor & Engineering Consultant NEW YORK, AUGUST 18, 2021 Summit Ridge Group, LLC, a leading ...
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