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Pre-Acquisition Digital Assets Infrastructure Assessment

A diversified financial services and investment management innovator was looking to acquire an institutional digital asset custody, trading and finance provider. FTI Technology was engaged to perform a detailed and verified technical assessment of the target company’s cryptocurrency assets under custody, technology roadmap, infrastructure, business model, and privacy and security practices to support due diligence ahead of finalizing the acquisition.

Our Impact

FTI Technology successfully analyzed the strength of the target company’s digital asset technology, supporting infrastructure and future plans for growth.
The client’s research and development team utilized our insights to identify the most impactful product development roadmap for the target, ensuring the company would maintain long-term resilience post-acquisition.
All potential risks to privacy and data security associated with the acquisition were identified and quickly remediated prior to closing the transaction.

Our Role

Through a unique understanding and approach to acquisition due diligence, our experts quickly delivered technical, data security and operational assessments while developing an expedited path to financial due diligence based on deep understanding of how cryptocurrency businesses monetize.
With in-depth knowledge of wallets, behavior of cryptocurrency exchanges and the operational hurdles unique to the world of blockchain, the team designed and executed a unique strategy to confirm ownership and prove validity of assets under custody.
In addition to supporting the client with verifying cryptocurrency assets and infrastructure, the technical assessment included a close look at data privacy and security risk areas that could implicate the transaction.