Due diligence
We provide the following due diligence services, singularly or in combination:
Who would find our due diligence service useful?
We have worked closely with both corporate vendors and purchasers for many years to meet the needs of private equity houses, banks and corporate acquirers for authoritative due diligence and investigation services
Financial due diligence
Over the past few years our transaction services team has:
- performed many hundreds of financial due diligence investigations
- worked for all the major banks, over 50 private equity houses, and corporate acquirers throughout the world
- undertaken vendor due diligence as part of controlled auction processes
In addition to full due diligence investigations, our clients often use us for tailored work, including:
- abbreviated reports
- pre-bid support work
- reviews of vendor due diligence
We also carry out financial investigation work. We use our many years experience of financial investigation work both to set the terms of the initial scope of work and to know when to adjust it as necessary, should, the position change.
Commercial due diligence
In conjunction with our associates White Maple Consulting, we can provide authoritative and practical market appraisals and studies across a wide range of industries. This can be expanded into formal strategy reviews if required.
Our commercial due diligence services include:
- bespoke or abbreviated reviews (e.g. reports based around a structured trade reference taking exercise)especially in industries where comprehensive market analysis would be time consuming or of dubious value
- confidential trade and personal reference taking service in circumstances where this may prove unduly sensitive for the investor
Corporate finance due diligence
We are increasingly asked to assist our clients in corporate finance due diligence, including:
- exit studies to assess current deal activity and pricing, potential acquirers and their price expectations
- value driver reports to pinpoint the factors which are likely to be seen as exit multiple enhancing in the current market environment
- sector analysis of critical industry and competitive issues and management's projected responses, in industries where we have deep specialist knowledge. Our sector experts provide highly focused and practical advice either to substitute or complement commercial due diligence
In this analysis, we also draw on the expertise of our investment department which currently has over £8 billion of funds under management.
Contact us
If you would like to find out more about our due diligence service contact Ian Burns, tel: 020 7131 4225 or James Riddiough, tel: 202 7131 4517.
