Assess whether a top customer is actually sticky (7f7701)
August 31, 2026 · SmartSolo
Situation
A health-system acquiring a specialty practice cannot treat an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary as color commentary on related-party revenue that disappears at close. Integration-risk PMO must close a top customer is actually sticky from that extract under M&A Due Diligence / Separation and Integration.
Decision
Integration-risk PMO in a health-system acquiring a specialty practice must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using related-party revenue that disappears at close after an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary.
Hypotheses to test
- The population in related-party revenue that disappears at close is the one an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary named, so Proceed follows for this Separation and Integration file.
- The population in related-party revenue that disappears at close is adjacent only to an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary; Reprice is the honest M&A Due Diligence call.
- A health-system acquiring a specialty practice already contained an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary before related-party revenue that disappears at close arrived; no new Separation and Integration path.
- Provenance on related-party revenue that disappears at close after an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary is broken; do not pick Proceed or Reprice yet.
Analysis required
- Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in related-party revenue that disappears at close to a top customer is actually sticky.
- Name the document integration-risk PMO still needs before signing.
- Test whether an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary is a diligence gap, a price chip, or a walk-away.
- For this M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration file, read related-party revenue that disappears at close against an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary and write the one fact that would move a top customer is actually sticky for integration-risk PMO.
Recommendation
Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / Separation and Integration packet (related-party revenue that disappears at close after an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary). If related-party revenue that disappears at close cannot force a M&A Due Diligence label under Separation and Integration, stop. If related-party revenue that disappears at close after an earnout based on 'adjusted EBITDA' with no dictionary cannot support Proceed versus Reprice on this M&A Due Diligence Separation and Integration close, integration-risk PMO must do not proceed, reprice, or walk on a quality-of-earnings fact the packet does not carry.
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