November 3, 2020 The Strategies That Work recently brought together a panel of experts to discuss how business planning has been affected by the pandemic and what companies can do to stay on track. The Road Map: Valuing and Positioning Your Business for the Next Destination, a virtual event with a three-part panel presentation, featured strategic insight on transforming and transitioning your business and included conversations about COVID-19’s impact on valuations and transactions. Panel 1: Detours on the Road to Transitions [View Panel] Drivers behind current activity and emerging trends What’s working: opportunities for growth and tips for mergers and acquisitions How ownership structures have evolved during the pandemic The importance of communication among vendors, employees and customers Panel 2: Valuation: What Does it Look Like Now? [View Panel] Foundations of valuation and impact of COVID-19 on those principles Emergence of exit strategies and increased valuations Increasing complexity of transactions given COVID-19 Sectors succeeding despite the pandemic Panel 3: What Do Transactions Look Like with all the Current Detours? [View Panel] Organizational structures and how they’ve changed Decreased activity around ESOPs Changing exit strategies among family-led businesses Risk allocation in the time of COVID-19
