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How Environmental Liability Affects Private Equity

To adequately identify and address deal-killing issues, M&A deals require not only close consideration of financial and legal risks, but also a thorough physical due diligence process to comprehensively address environmental risks and liabilities. John Insall, LEP discusses how environmental liability affects private equity.

By John Insall, LEP | Updated on February 02, 2015

As the economy continued to pick up steam in 2014, merger and acquisition rates rose strongly.  Forbes went as far as to label activity in the 2014 M&A market a “frenzy”!  These take-over deals involve extensive legal and financial due diligence, but there are significant environmental liability risks associated with them too.  Just recently, Partner completed several due diligence projects for a nationally known, emerging, private equity firm which highlighted the particular deal-killer risks investors should be aware of.  Let me share some lessons from the field.

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