{"id":45,"date":"2020-04-30T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/?p=45"},"modified":"2020-07-05T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T21:10:09","slug":"ma-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-extended-due-diligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/2020\/04\/30\/ma-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-extended-due-diligence\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;A Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic &#8211; Extended Due Diligence."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For transactions that are still not quite closed or still in the diligence phase, we should expect to see additional scrutiny, deepened risk analysis and on-going requests for up to date financial results. Additional calls to customers and accountants may also be warranted to re-test the quality of earnings. Suddenly the ability to maintain operations remotely will be a key question. This in-depth cross-checking will put extra pressure on executive teams and more so on owner-operators, all of whom are now dealing with the pandemic on top of deal stress and that with reduced resources. Minimally, these detailed reviews will cause delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to buy or sell a business? Feel free to reach Allison Dent at <a href=\"mailto:info@adcorporatefinance.com\">info@adcorporatefinance.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For transactions that are still not quite closed or still in the diligence phase, we should expect to see additional scrutiny, deepened risk analysis and on-going requests for up to date financial results. Additional calls to customers and accountants may also be warranted to re-test the quality of earnings. Suddenly the ability to maintain operations &#8230; <a title=\"M&#038;A Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic &#8211; Extended Due Diligence.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/2020\/04\/30\/ma-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic-extended-due-diligence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about M&#038;A Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic &#8211; Extended Due Diligence.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma-amid-the-covid-19-pandemic","tag-allison-dent","tag-ma","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adcorporatefinance.com\/allison-dent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}