What I learned from my first business acquisition due diligence checklist

Just closed my first acquisition a few months back Q1 of this year, actually and went through the whole due diligence process. Spent weeks cobbling together a checklist from scratch: bits from DealRoom templates, random blog posts, a pile of reading. Honestly, it kept me organized, but I still missed stuff. Things like UCC liens and earn-out clauses? Thought I had them covered. The template didn’t flag them properly, and I ended up paying a lawyer more than I wanted to clean it up. Biggest takeaway: a checklist is only a starting point. It forced me to look at financials

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