Resources
Short, plain pieces on preparing for acquisition diligence. Written the way we evaluate deals: no hype, no filler, nothing we cannot stand behind.
Most data rooms do not fail because a document is missing. They fail because two documents disagree. The five documents that carry a deal, and the consistency rule that protects your price.
Read →Normalization is where asking prices get made and unmade. Which add-backs usually survive scrutiny, which get challenged every time, and the rule that decides between them.
Read →The ratio your lender prices before anything else: what debt service coverage is, what it tells the bank, and what it cannot tell you.
Read →Every hard figure in your report is traced to your own documents. What the number registry is, what the adversarial debate does, and why the gate refunds rather than ships a report it cannot verify.
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