Financial due diligence

Due diligence is critical for providing comfort over and insight into the past and projected performance of a business, identifying unrecorded liabilities, highlighting areas of risk and informing potential mitigating action.

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Our cost-effective approach involves agreeing a scope of work tailored to your requirements and focusing on your key points of interest. We will give you our honest opinion and a clear and direct solution that enables you to make informed decisions on a financial transaction.

Our range of services covers underlying historical performance, projections and sensitivities, working capital requirements, cash flows, internal control environment, accounting policies, business tax, employment taxes, indirect taxes, share schemes, pensions, IT, completion mechanics, warranties and indemnities and SPA advice. As well as in buy-side situations, we can provide support for financing or refinancing, vendor due diligence, vendor assistance and pre and post-bid support.

Meeting your needs

  • Authoritative

  • Resourceful

  • Tailored

  • Unambiguous

  • Global reach

How we can help

  • Financial investigations: robust assessment of value drivers, the sustainability of earnings forecasts and key risks / exposures
  • Sale and Purchase Agreement advisory: maximising value in the price mechanism and mitigating risks, and assisting in the SPA negotiation
  • Completion accounts: protecting or generating value through the execution of the completion mechanism
  • Tax due diligence: assessing all potential tax liabilities in terms of quantum and risk
  • Tax structuring: providing commercial, pragmatic solutions on the tax implications of the proposed structure of a transaction
  • Vendor assistance and due diligence: preparing vendors thoroughly for the rigours of a sale process by identifying early on the critical deal risks, informing mitigating action, and presenting them in balanced manner
  • Sector analysis: understanding the critical competitive issues affecting your industry and evaluating the best response
  • Exit studies: assessing current deal activity and pricing, potential acquirers and price expectations
  • Value driver reports: pinpointing the factors likely to enhance exit multiples in the prevailing market environment
  • Tailored assignments: personalised solutions including abbreviated reports, pre-bid support work, vendor due diligence reviews, in-house reporting and more

Our credentials

  • Leading

  • Insightful

  • Instrumental

  • Experienced