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The Purchase Price Allocation Trap That Cost a Buyer 20 Million
In this episode of The Acquisition Talk with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dissect a deal that went wrong not during due diligence, but after closing — when the buyer discovered that the purchase price allocation had shifted value away from the assets that mattered most. Through a real-world case of a $120 million acquisition of a niche industrial software company, they explore how a seemingly routine allocation of the purchase price to tangible assets, customer relationships, and goodwill triggered a massive tax hit and a write-down that cost the buyer twenty million dollars. Lucas explains the…
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