Successful due diligence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Tax, Legal and Financial considerations

You are cordially invited to attend this KPMG Executive Briefing on:

Successful due diligence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Tax, Legal and Financial considerations

KPMG in Thailand is pleased to invite you to join our live webinar on successful due diligence during the challenges posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic.

We are seeing an M&A boom well under way in the Americas and Europe, and the beginnings of a similar boom in Asia. Deal activity has recently increased in Thailand and we expect it to grow further driven by both growth and distressed acquisitions. In this briefing, we will discuss some of the new challenges in executing due diligence in the current environment, and new approaches to due diligence to address them. There is more uncertainty regarding a business’s growth potential, trading trends, working capital and financial structure, along with the practical challenges of being able to meet with the management and visit the business you are looking to acquire.

Greater caution must be exercised when assessing the target business and obtaining in-depth understanding of what new factors impact equity value are here to stay and which will disappear, as businesses start to emerge from the pandemic.

The discussion points will be:

• Recent M&A trends
• What are the key challenges in executing due diligence during the COVID-19 environment?
• The pandemic has thrown in new implications to consider, what should investors be concerned with in terms of Tax, Legal and Financial perspectives on top of normal due diligence assessments?
• How can integrated due diligence help investors execute deals more effectively?
• Q&A session 

Ian Thornhill
Partner, Head of Deal Advisory
KPMG in Thailand

Boonyaporn Donnapee
Partner, Legal
KPMG in Thailand

Tatiana Bespalova
Partner, M&A and International Tax
KPMG in Thailand

Songpon Kiatlertpongsa
Partner, Deal Advisory
KPMG in Thailand