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Colby Allen

Introduction and Experience My name is Colby Allen and serve as VP of Consulting and Valuations with Agency Brokerage Consultants. To date I’m a published industry expert and thought leader on Insurance Agency Valuation and M&A Advisory. Since starting my career in the industry have collected 13 years of experience in finance, operations, analytics, and project…

It’s Just a Name Change and Other ‘ERPS’- Part 2

“There are inherent dangers when a company is acquired, not only for the selling company, but for the acquiring company. It is not uncommon for the buyer to require the seller purchase several years of extended reporting coverage. This is because the buyer, when either acquiring the assets or the stock transaction, wants no exposure to any known or unknow liabilities created by activities before the acquisition.
We’ve all seen companies get acquired, with the seller invoking whatever extended reporting coverage they can acquire, sometimes at a significant price. But that is not the only problem, and this is where the approach and analysis become important. Asking the right questions is thus necessary to provide the appropriate financial protection to those involved, with the avoidance of any error and omission claim that might be made against the broker, despite whether they are simply following an “order take” standard or not.”

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