Myrtle Beach, South Carolina & Miami, Florida, August 19, 2007—Highland Global Business Valuations, a premiere business valuation firm for attorneys, accountants, and privately held business owners in the southeast United States, is pleased to announce the release of its Value Highlights newsletter.  Highland Global’s Value Highlights quarterly newsletter provides research, articles, and commentaries on business valuation topics that impact privately held or family controlled business, their legal counsel, and financial advisors.  This edition of the newsletter includes the following:

• excerpts from Highland Global’s most recent State of the Economy commentary along with economic projections for 2007,
• results of “Discount Statistics of Closed-End Funds” research which examines the quarterly and yearly discounts of market values to net asset value of closed-end funds,
• the “Top Ten Questions of Value” which identifies and briefly answers the top ten valuation questions that are most often asked of business appraisers, and
• company news releases including the publication of Robert M. Clinger III’s editorial “Council’s Financial Responsibility Questioned” in The Sun News and the announcement of Mr. Clinger’s successful completion of the Certified Business Appraiser (CBA) program from the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA).

Sebastian G. Peréy, spokesman for Highland Global, offered the following comments regarding the release of Highland Global’s Value Highlights newsletter:

Highland Global and Mr. Clinger are pleased to provide our latest Value Highlights newsletter to our clients, valuation practitioners, business owners, and other professionals as part of our on-going commitment to providing value-added research and analysis to the business valuation field.  We look forward to continuing our tradition of providing insightful articles and analysis of pertinent valuation issues through publication of additional newsletters, articles, and books in the near future.

 The complete library of full articles and newsletters may be accessed via Highland Global’s website www.HighlandGlobal.com.  Business valuations are most commonly required in conjunction with the purchase or sale of a business, succession planning, buy/sell agreements, charitable contributions, estate and gift taxes, and initial public offerings.  Valuations may also be necessary in legal situations such as business disruption, dissenting shareholder actions, divorce, and partner disputes.