Financial due diligence

Our cost-effective approach puts you in control. Together, we’ll agree 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 services cover a full range of financial due diligence requirements: 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 buy-side situations, we also provide support for financing or refinancing, vendor due diligence, vendor assistance and pre and post-bid support.

Our expert team is authoritative and resourceful. We provide tailored advice and services that provide clear, unambiguous insights and answers. With a global reach, you can rely on our services to enable you to make fully informed decisions wherever you’re active.

We offer a broad range of services to provide the support you need: 

• Financial investigations, with a robust assessment of value drivers, the sustainability of earnings forecasts and key risks and exposures
• Sale and purchase agreement advisory to maximise value in the price mechanism, mitigate risks, and assist 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 for commercial, pragmatic solutions to the tax implications of the proposed transaction structure
• Vendor assistance and due diligence, preparing vendors for the rigours of the sales process by early identification and a balanced presentation of critical deal risks and mitigating actions
• Sector analysis to understand the critical competitive issues affecting your industry and evaluate 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 for personalised solutions, including abbreviated reports, pre-bid support work, vendor due diligence reviews, and in-house reporting