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1. A buyer finds a problem between signing and closing. The module opens three doors. What do they have in common?
They are all bad, and insurance saves none of them
Staying silent and closing may breach the duty of disclosure and loses the point anyway; reopening the price is almost never allowed by the sale agreement once signed; walking away is rarely permitted by a material adverse change clause, those clauses being drafted to be nearly unreachable. That is the conclusion to draw without softening it, because it governs the conduct upstream: the buyer's best position was to find the fact before signing, while it could still be handled in the price. The answer seeing a general renegotiation confuses one door with all three, and it is precisely the one the agreement closed.
Glossary entry →2. The target's managers sell, reinvest in the equity and stay in post. Why are they an imputation problem?
Their pre-sale knowledge was the seller's, and after closing they run a company belonging to the buyer
A manager who knew of a problem, said nothing, sold, stayed, and now runs the business for the buyer is a walking imputation problem, and generally appears on the list of individuals whose knowledge counts. Whether, and from when, that knowledge is imputed to the buyer gets different answers in different wordings, and it decides entire files. The other three answers share the flaw of settling by a general rule what the contract settles in its own way: believing that a seller cannot be on the list, or that its knowledge is erased, assumes an answer where the drafting offers several.
Glossary entry →3. On May 22, a lead on the list of eight receives information and treats it as commercial noise. Why does that date lose the file?
Because his actual knowledge is the buyer's from that day, and the fact pre-existed signing: it falls outside the original cover and outside the repetition alike
The point falls out on both sides at once, and it is that accumulation to retain rather than either half: the fact did not arise during the interim period, so the repetition does not cover it; it was no longer unknown on July 4, so the original policy does not cover it either. The lead's judgment, commercial noise or established fact, changes nothing about the date the information reached him. The answer invoking the absence of a memo even inverts the file: he wrote one, it will be produced, and the only available defense will turn on its drafting.
Glossary entry →4. The July 4 no-claims declaration was inaccurate when signed. Why is that more serious than the declined claim?
Because it can ground a challenge reaching beyond this single claim
A declined claim costs that claim; an inaccurate declaration puts the insurance relationship itself in play, and that difference in reach is what to see when signing rather than afterward. The two answers going further, retroactive avoidance and a bar on any later notification, describe heavier and less likely consequences: the exact extent depends on the applicable law and on what is established, and asserting in advance that it is maximal spares you from measuring it. The remedy is upstream and costs nothing: circulate the declaration forty-eight hours before closing, so that someone has time to question those who might answer no.
Glossary entry →5. The module proposes three steps requiring neither talent nor money. Which?
Keep a dated register of points found, warn the named individuals that their knowledge is contractual, and circulate the no-claims declaration forty-eight hours before closing
The three steps share the feature of making knowledge verifiable rather than reconstructed: a dated register turns knowledge into an established fact and not a contested reconstruction, the instruction to named individuals removes the judgment-call filtering that lost the May 22 file, and the forty-eight hours give someone the actual time to ask. The answer proposing knowledge after reasonable inquiry and a widened list picks the two settings that work against the insured, and it is instructive: it shows you can know the parameters and get their direction wrong. The other answers list real spending, which these three steps are not.
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