Assess whether management can run this without the founder (4950c8)

Situation

After IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map, customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses is what commercial-diligence partner can touch in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate. M&A Due Diligence will live with Proceed versus Reprice on this People and Contracts file.

Decision

Commercial-diligence partner in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map.

Hypotheses to test

• Authorize Proceed now; customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses already has the discriminator after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map.
• Keep Reprice in force until customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses is completed after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map for commercial-diligence partner.
• Treat customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses as Walk because both readings appear after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map.
• Refuse a M&A Due Diligence close: commercial-diligence partner does not have the page management can run this turns on in customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses.

Analysis required

• Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate would inherit.
• Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses to management can run this.
• Name the document commercial-diligence partner still needs before signing.
• For this M&A Due Diligence People and Contracts file, read customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses against IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map and write the one fact that would move management can run this for commercial-diligence partner.

Recommendation

Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / People and Contracts packet (customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map). Lead with the M&A Due Diligence option customer concentration and termination-for-convenience clauses can support after IT diligence showing two ERPs and no chart of accounts map, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for commercial-diligence partner in a strategic buyer looking at a carve-out from a conglomerate.