Assess whether related-party sales should be backed out of valuation (96edd3)

SITUATION After a CIM that omitted a material litigation, revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash is what integration-risk PMO can touch in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on. M&A Due Diligence will live with Proceed versus Reprice on this People and Contracts file.

DECISION Integration-risk PMO in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a CIM that omitted a material litigation.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash is the one a CIM that omitted a material litigation named, so Proceed follows for this People and Contracts file. 2. The population in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash is adjacent only to a CIM that omitted a material litigation; Reprice is the honest M&A Due Diligence call. 3. A PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on already contained a CIM that omitted a material litigation before revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash arrived; no new People and Contracts path. 4. Provenance on revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a CIM that omitted a material litigation is broken; do not pick Proceed or Reprice yet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Separate a one-off add-back from a recurring earnings issue in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash. 2. Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on would inherit. 3. Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash to related-party sales should be. 4. For this M&A Due Diligence People and Contracts file, read revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash against a CIM that omitted a material litigation and write the one fact that would move related-party sales should be for integration-risk PMO.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / People and Contracts packet (revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a CIM that omitted a material litigation). The follow-on People and Contracts action is what integration-risk PMO does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line M&A Due Diligence option on related-party sales should be, then the evidence in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash, then the action for integration-risk PMO - Hypothesis scorecard against revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash: supported / rejected / untestable - Regulatory or exam hook People and Contracts would cite - People and Contracts finding in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash that a second reviewer can re-perform