Welcome to Equity Development Systems, Ltd.

Equity Development Systems, Ltd. (EDS) is an internationally recognized appraisal review & lending compliance collateral-asset risk management provider, private-equity investor, and mergers & acquisitions advisor.

Equity Development Systems® consists of five principal operating groups: Appraisal Review and Management Systems®, Lending Compliance Systems®, Investment Recovery Systems® and its Investment Recovery Centers of America® unit, and our Private-Equity and M&A Advisory group.

EDS is most active in providing regulatory compliant appraisal reviews to commercial banks, and cradle-to-grave collateral-asset-life-cycle management services to leasing companies and asset-based lenders and, in handling the consolidation and disposition of nonessential divisional assets, real and moveable, through corporate divestiture and restructuring transactions for multinational corporations throughout the world.

Equity Development Systems® specializes in providing appraisal review expert witness and litigation support services to attorneys and in handling the disposition of environmentally sensitive replevin and special-asset situations for lenders.

Case Studies

Case III: Merck

EDS handled the divestiture of Merck's U.S. distribution operations and operational consolidation with Medco.

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Case IV: Pfizer

EDS handled the divestiture of Pfizer's U.S. distribution operations and operational consolidation with Warner Lambert / Parke-Davis.

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A.S.A. Information

The American Society of Appraisers is the oldest and only major international appraisal organization representing all of the disciplines of appraisal specialists. It is one of eight major appraisal societies that, in 1987, founded The Appraisal Foundation. Since 1989 The Appraisal Foundation has been recognized by the U.S. Congress as the source for the development and promulgation of appraisal standards and qualifications.

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