Anvil Advisors
When Valuation Demands More Than a Formula

Lân K. Nguyen, Managing Partner

When asked what made the firm special, Lân K. Nguyen, managing partner, provided a succinct answer: “Work on your craft and take care of your clients. Stay out of the limelight and be excellent.” He added that the firm’s goal is simple: “To serve as our client’s most trusted partner across every facet of financial valuation.” Notoriously press-shy, Anvil suggested that the best way to get to know them is through their clients. As such, this profile came primarily from interviews with a handful of Anvil’s clients.

Anvil provides independent valuations, financial opinions and consulting services. Drawing on investment banking and asset management experience, it supports fund managers and companies through complex valuation, reporting and transaction-related decisions. Anvil’s senior leadership brings buy-side and sell-side experience from bulge-bracket investment banks, Big Four accounting firms, and institutional asset managers. Yet the firm delivers that institutional weight through a boutique delivery model anchored by direct senior engagement and situational judgment.

When private equity firm LNK Partners decided to outsource its portfolio valuation function, it already operated under a refined internal framework developed over decades. Rather than impose a new methodology, Anvil evaluated LNK’s workflow, recognized its integrity, and seamlessly incorporated it. David Landau, co founder and managing partner at LNK, describes Anvil as “very high quality,” exceptionally flexible, and above all, “good to their word.”

Linden Advisors, a large multi-billion-dollar hedge fund, routinely engages Anvil to value its Level 3 Assets, both foreign and domestic. These engagements require exhaustive due diligence and analysis that Anvil can defend before investment committees and clearly explain to legal and accounting stakeholders. Anvil’s Managing Partner stays personally involved from initial diligence through executive reviews, a commitment that has earned repeat engagements across Linden’s portfolio.

For another institutional fund manager that holds highly structured investments, Anvil values its bespoke structured securities with changing economic terms on a quarterly basis. This requires interpreting complex legal documents and maintaining a precise audit trail as inputs evolve. The client relies on Anvil’s dependable delivery, responsiveness, and rigorous, auditor traceable methodology.

Lifecycle Relationship

Anvil prefers to work with private companies from formation through an exit event (IPO or Sale). Companies like Etsy, Twilio, Warby Parker, Indeed, and Betterment are some of the hundreds of companies that have relied on Anvil for a variety of valuations (409A, ASC718, QSBS, ASC805) for tax and financial reporting purposes over the years. “I have worked with Anvil’s excellent team through many rounds of financing, not just at one company but across several different companies,” says the CEO of SimSpace, “[they are] extremely responsive and reliable, giving me one less thing to worry about.”

Finally, Anvil’s financial opinion and consulting practice bring together its core strengths. Its ability to get to the heart of complex situations, explain them with clarity, support them with relevant data and insightful analysis, and be responsive to short deadlines has made it a dependable advisor to investment committees and boards of directors, as well as a strong referral candidate for many law firms.

This combination of senior access, judgment, and clarity reinforces Anvil’s referral based operating model. Repeat engagements and referrals come from professionals who know the work firsthand and trust the firm with complex questions. Recognized by Financial Services Magazine as the Top Financial Valuation and Advisory Consulting Firm of 2026, Anvil continues to build its stellar reputation quietly, one client at a time.