Transactions
Due Diligence
Our integrated approach to due diligence provides buyers and sellers with an integrated assessment across financial, commercial, operational, IT, tax and human capital considerations.
Whether you’re divesting, acquiring, carving out, merging, integrating or doing follow-on acquisitions, there are immense costs and resources on the line, and due diligence is critical to success.
Leveraging decades of transaction experience, we bring on-point expertise and a team sized and matched to your specific needs.
Our deep bench of senior-level practitioners and experts understand the industry-specific challenges, opportunities and competitive environments that underpin a deal.
Our integrated diligence approach aligns financial, operational and organizational insights. If a transaction is already underway or has closed, we deliver integrated post-close support: validating net working capital, translating diligence findings into actionable integration plans, supporting interim leadership needs, shaping clear communications for all stakeholders and advising on HR policies, compensation structures and legal considerations. The result is faster decision-making and fewer surprises during the most critical phase of the transaction.
Our solutions
Build a strong case for value and manage risk early
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Financial Due Diligence
Determine whether a deal should proceed or if the risks outweigh the value. We provide buy- and sell-side financial due diligence, including quality of earnings, working capital analyses, net asset reviews, sales and margin analyses, short-term forecasts, synergy assessments and carve-out considerations.
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Commercial Due Diligence
Identify and define opportunities to capture revenue, new customers and new businesses. Our commercial due diligence experts conduct market and company assessments, customer interviews, market sizing, demand modeling, competitive and antitrust evaluations, KPI and performance reviews, value-proposition and brand assessments and partnership analyses.
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Operational Due Diligence
Understand and pre-empt operational issues that can derail a transaction. Our operational due diligence practitioners assess operational requirements, risks, opportunities and red flags so you can evaluate whether a target’s operations can deliver the deal’s business plan.
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IT & Cyber Due Diligence
Evaluate the resilience, cost and risk profile of a target’s IT and cybersecurity landscape. We review infrastructure, applications, cyber posture and spend to identify gaps, modernization needs and integration or carve-out requirements that affect deal value.
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Tax Due Diligence
Assess tax exposures and structuring implications to protect value across global transactions. Our M&A tax experts evaluate historical tax positions, corporate and indirect taxes, transfer pricing, legal-entity and operating structures, and debt-workout implications to help buyers and sellers identify risks, capture tax attributes and define tax-efficient deal and operating structures.
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Human Capital Due Diligence
Analyze workforce, HR and compensation programs to accelerate value capture. We evaluate benefit and pension plans, equity and compensation programs, employment agreements and standalone HR costs to quantify exposures, identify synergies and support post-deal performance.
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Transactions
Strategic transactions demand more than deal analysis. We bring an integrated, multidisciplinary focus on all facets of our clients’ businesses that may be impacted by a transaction and scale our expert support accordingly.
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Agile due diligence teams with proven sector expertise
We deploy lean teams of due diligence experts with decades of financial, operational and sector expertise to rapidly pinpoint critical risks, quantify opportunities and deliver actionable findings that accelerate deal success.
Jason P. Abbott
Senior Managing Director, Leader of Financial Due Diligence
Rustom Kharegat
Senior Managing Director, Global Co-Leader of Transactions
Matthew Cowell
Senior Managing Director, Co-Leader of Human Capital
Emanuele Grasso
Senior Managing Director, Head of Italy Corporate Finance
Saskia Hinkenkemper
Senior Managing Director
Ali Lokhandwala
Senior Managing Director
Enoch Minn
Senior Managing Director, U.S. Leader of Commercial Due Diligence
