Louis Lehot, the Founder of L2 Counsel and the video blog series — #askasiliconvalleylawyer — to discuss negotiating mergers and acquisition transactions during this pandemic.
Romanek: Will corporate development and business unit leaders on the buy-side be receptive to looking at potential acquisitions during the pendency of “shelter-in-place” orders?
Lehot: The answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Despite the lack of physical proximity to targets, corporate development, and business unit leaders continue to be responsible to their stakeholders for growing their businesses, both organically and inorganically, and for stopping the bleeding that might otherwise occur. On many occasions, M&A transactions will be timely and opportune.
Read here the complete conversation.