Due Diligences

Our Commercial Due Diligence assesses the relevant commercial aspects of the target company and the corresponding market and competition. We describe the business model, assess the value chain, provide insights into the market and relevant competitors, and analyze the customer’s structure, their product portfolio, as well as their marketing and sales strategy. By doing so, we place a special focus on identifying potential risks in the market, competition, and business model. Based on the identified risks, we propose concrete actions for the post-acquisition phase and prioritize necessary changes to the business model, value chain or organization.

Stable and future-proof IT systems are the backbone of any company’s value chain. A thorough examination of the IT is therefore crucial prior to making an investment. Our IT Due Diligence covers all relevant aspects of the target company’s IT, including strategy and digital capabilities, application and infrastructure landscape, organization and governance, contracts and costs, as well as IT risks and security. Our analysis ranges from Initial Insights Dossiers and Red Flag Reports to comprehensive, bankable Due Diligence Reports. All done in a smooth process creating trust and good-will by a small and easy-to-work-with team with decades of experience.

How can the target company use its data to optimize current business operations – or even to implement new business models? We answer this question in our Data Due Diligence. To do so, we match existing and future data sources with possible use cases and monetization scenarios. In a second step, we analyze the data structure and quality to assess whether this data can be used in a meaningful way to gather information from it, e.g. for an evaluation by data management solutions or machine learning algorithms.

The sustainability performance of potential target companies plays an increasingly important role, whereby all three ESG dimensions (Environment, Social, Governance) must be examined. We check whether the target company efficiently maps regulatory requirements and due diligence obligations in its processes, structures, systems, and along the supply chain (social dimension), assess the ecological footprint (environment dimension), and analyze whether the company supports consistent ESG anchoring in corporate management (governance dimension).