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De-risking and Leveraging Brand Equity Ownership in Commercial Due Diligence

By Jeff Merkle

In Commercial Due Diligence, it’s often the assumption that customer relationships are an “asset” of the business, but that’s not always the case. The reality is that for many businesses, the quality and stability of customer relationships are owned by account representatives (and possibly only a few reps) – who walk out the door with those assets every night, and who (for the right…
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A Practical Commercial Diligence Approach to Assess the Risk of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disruption

By Jeff Merkle

The impact of constantly expanding applications of AI technology (Note 1) has many investors nervous about traditional human-labor-based businesses – from professional and technical services to administrative clerks. The sustainability of these businesses is a deep and challenging topic to assess. However, it is made harder by the convoluted analytics that many consultants have proposed to…
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Fruit that’s Ripe for Non-traditional Disruption (and how to diligence the prospect of it)

By Mark Stein

The Amazon Whole Foods tie-up is certainly throwing more than a couple of mature industries for a loop: food production, logistics and distribution, mass-retail and groceries. Since the announcement (and as of today), Costco lost 17% of its value; Kroger is down 30%; Sprouts is down 24%; Wal-Mart took a hit but seems to be holding its own.
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Indefensible (Competitive Position)

By Mark Stein

I’m fairly certain that just about every commercial diligence assignment conducted is going to include measurement of the asset's commercial strength relative to customer needs and expectations, and relative to perceptions of competitors and alternatives.

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