The evolution of operational due diligence in the time of a pandemic and thereafter
An on-site operational due diligence (“O.D.D.”) meeting, conducted at an investment manager’s office, is universally considered an elemental component to a comprehensive operational due diligence process. However, over the last month, as SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) has been spreading across the Earth inflicting COVID-19 (the disease) upon millions, that elemental ritual of meeting on-site became untenable in what felt like the