Assess whether a top customer is actually sticky (feb8b9)

Situation

Post-merger systems-integration risk register arrived with a Phase II that found groundwater impact for IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart. That is a M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration decision on a top customer is actually sticky in a family-office reviewing a manufacturing target.

Decision

IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart in a family-office reviewing a manufacturing target must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using post-merger systems-integration risk register after a Phase II that found groundwater impact.

Hypotheses to test

• Authorize Proceed now; post-merger systems-integration risk register already has the discriminator after a Phase II that found groundwater impact.
• Keep Reprice in force until post-merger systems-integration risk register is completed after a Phase II that found groundwater impact for IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart.
• Treat post-merger systems-integration risk register as Walk because both readings appear after a Phase II that found groundwater impact.
• Refuse a M&A Due Diligence close: IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart does not have the page a top customer is actually sticky turns on in post-merger systems-integration risk register.

Analysis required

• Name the document IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart still needs before signing.
• Test whether a Phase II that found groundwater impact is a diligence gap, a price chip, or a walk-away.
• Separate a one-off add-back from a recurring earnings issue in post-merger systems-integration risk register.
• For this M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration file, read post-merger systems-integration risk register against a Phase II that found groundwater impact and write the one fact that would move a top customer is actually sticky for IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart.

Recommendation

Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / Separation and Integration packet (post-merger systems-integration risk register after a Phase II that found groundwater impact). The follow-on Separation and Integration action is what IP diligence counsel's financial counterpart does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.