If you’re looking to invest in a business, it is imperative that you have identified the key financial risks involved with the process before making any critical decisions.
We appreciate that ensuring that an acquisition or sale is completed successfully and at the right price is often heavily influenced by the quality and content of the due diligence process.
Where we distinguish ourselves is in the level of business insight and the clarity of our reports – we aim to add value to the evaluation process and identify and communicate transactional risks early, ensuring you are fully informed before making any pivotal decisions.
Our experts specialise in providing due diligence for:
- Investors, banks and private equity houses
- Corporate acquirers
- Vendors, where an independent review can give the vendor more leverage and certainty when negotiating on a deal as part of a larger sale process
Our reports provide critical analysis of both historical and projected performance, and you can be confident that they will provide you with a thorough analysis of:
- Working capital
- Key issues within the company
- Associated risks and deal implications
- Potential post-deal issues, e.g. integration
- Financial systems and controls
- Historical and future tax
We contacted Smith Cooper to undertake diligence of the business plan because of the sheer volume of transactions it has undertaken in the sector and hence its knowledge of market comparators. This is an exercise we would normally have asked the big four accountancy firm doing the FDD to undertake but we knew they would not have the depth of experience to provide the insight we were looking for. Smith Cooper delivered a detailed report to a tight time frame that far exceeded our expectations.
Pascal Wittet, Connection Capital
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