Due Diligence

When making the decision to acquire a company, you need a due diligence team with experience who can provide strategic and operational expertise and fresh insights.

The future profitability of any business is significantly affected by its market environment, so when evaluating acquisition opportunities, commercial due diligence has become an essential part of the decision making process. It provides major insight into the current standing and future prospects of the company. However, time constraints, a lack of internal resource and/or sector expertise frequently prevent the process being undertaken in-house.

Our due diligence reviews are undertaken by our highly experienced team, who specialize in business to business market research to interrogate the market and commercial dynamics affecting a proposed investment.

• Creation of an Integrated Report.
  • Based on the target's business operations, products/services, customer relations, sales and marketing effectiveness, and competitive position
• Review
  • To determine risk factors affecting purchase price
• Management Team Assessment
  • Evaluation of the quality of the company's methodology to forecast sales, cash flow, and earnings
• Compensation Structure
  • With strong emphasis on executive team and sales incentive compensation plans
• Merger Deliberation
  • We administer the complex intracacies associated with merging, absorbing, or discarding different departments and functional areas after the acquisition
• Strategy Fit
  • Understanding your business strategy inside and out
• Product Line Analysis
  • Rationalization with a review for impact on marketing, distribution, sales, and other areas that will need to be compatible.
• Financial Position Review
  • Focusing on quality of business plan, budgets, and business metrics crucial to your success.
• Culture Fit
  • We appreciate the subtle nuances and corporate culture shifts across separate industries and companies.
• Growth Review
  • Macro level review of trends affecting future growth – includes: demographic changes, government regulations, technological changes, industry forces such as consolidation, market expansion or contraction
• Growth Potential
  • Identification of strategic options for a higher rate of growth

We detail the findings in a concise and clearly presented report. The reports are presented to you and management, in face to face presentations to ensure a complete understanding of the content, and implications of the findings.