Commercial Due Diligence
Acquisitive companies often have only a few weeks to decide whether to make an offer, and an important decision factor is whether they believe a target company’s claims about its position in the marketplace, financial stability, and hypotheses about future growth potential.
Operational Due Diligence
Our Operational Due Diligence (ODD) team comprises experienced line managers and operational due diligence specialists with operational restructuring and performance improvement expertise. This cumulative expertise enables us to deliver comprehensive insights into operational risk as well as potential opportunities in both pre-deal due diligence and post-deal value capture and enhancement.
Technology Due Diligence
In our ever-evolving, technology-driven world, the role of technology becomes increasingly pivotal. Technology due diligence requires examination of software and systems from a strategic and functional viewpoint, as well as assessing key risks related to architectural choices, scalability, development practices and cyber security. Our experts can also provide end-to-end evaluation of IT landscapes, including IT financials, IT related risks, and opportunities for synergies to enable successful IT integration and separation.
ESG Due Diligence
Supporting buy-side and sell-side clients with targeted ESG due diligence that prioritises material ESG considerations for each deal and links these risks and opportunities back to deal value.
Synergy Due Diligence
As corporations and private equity firms consider mergers and acquisitions that will combine operations, they generally rely on high-level, top-down assumptions to identify synergies that are built into valuations. These same organisations are often surprised when assumed post-deal operational improvements aren’t as significant as planned or take longer than expected to realise.
We help our clients with a bottom-up approach that puts management’s skin in the game early on to identify where specific top-line synergies shall be achieved and where cost reductions may be achieved. Such diligence can help justify valuations and drive early alignment around the new operating model for the combined business.