As a buyer assessing a potential acquisition, it is critical for you to not only identify a suitable company that aligns with your overall business objectives, but also to acquire it at a fair price. To help you make a fully informed decision, we perform detailed financial analysis to provide an objective and in-depth assessment of key areas such as quality of earnings, cash flow, assets, liabilities and working capital.
Sell-side due diligence enables the seller to proactively identify issues that may affect value, negotiating leverage, and time taken to close the deal. When properly performed and planned, sell-side due diligence can help to uncover unknown risks to the transaction, allowing the company adequate time to address those risks to prevent them from becoming pitfalls in the sales process.
Whether you are acquiring or selling a business, it is important to evaluate the tax consequences of a transaction. We can help you to analyse and quantify industry, country, and deal-specific tax risk and opportunities to assist you in developing positions as part of a deal.