Market Trends: What You Need to Know - Based on the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies: - Purchase.
Market Trends: What You Need to Know
Based on the American Bar Association s Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies:
Purchase price adjustments continue to be commonplace in M&A agreements. In the 2019 study, they were included in 95% of reported deals.
Working capital is the most common purchase price adjustment metric, included in 92% of deals from the 2019 ABA study.
The buyer now almost always prepares the initial post-closing purchase price adjustment calculation. This was the approach for 99% of reported deals in the 2019 study.
Increasingly, M&A deals include an estimated purchase price adjustment true-up at closing, as reflected in 97% of reported transactions in the 2019 study.