Comprehensive due diligence for M&A transactions, PE investments, IPO preparation, and lender credit appraisal. Financial DD, legal DD, tax DD, and commercial DD — identifying hidden risks and negotiating leverage before you commit.
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30% of M&A transactions result in post-close disputes because risks were not identified during due diligence. Tax liabilities, litigation, undisclosed contracts, environmental exposure, and related party transactions — our DD process systematically surfaces these before you commit.
Start Due DiligenceDue diligence is the process of investigating a target company before a significant transaction — M&A acquisition, PE investment, IPO listing, or lending decision. It involves systematically reviewing financial records, legal documents, tax filings, contracts, IP, regulatory compliance, and operational data to identify risks, confirm valuations, and provide negotiating leverage.
In India's regulatory environment, due diligence is especially critical because: many companies have informal practices that create undisclosed liabilities; GST, income tax, and customs disputes are common and often not fully provisioned; and SEBI requires detailed DRHP disclosures that surface issues that informal businesses have not previously disclosed publicly.
Comprehensive multi-stream due diligence — financial, legal, tax, commercial, and IT DD.
Verify the quality of earnings, normalise EBITDA, assess working capital, identify off-balance-sheet liabilities, and validate financial projections. The foundation of every M&A and PE investment decision.
Review all material contracts, corporate documents, litigation status, IP ownership, regulatory licences, property titles, and employment agreements to identify legal risks and transferability issues.
Identify income tax, GST, customs, and transfer pricing exposures — including open assessments, pending appeals, GSTIN compliance gaps, and undisclosed tax liabilities that survive the transaction.
Independently validate the business model, market size, competitive positioning, customer concentration, revenue sustainability, and management capability — ensuring financial projections are grounded in market reality.
Vendor DD commissioned by the target company (typically IPO-bound) to identify and remediate issues before SEBI DRHP filing, investor DD, or investment banker due diligence. Reduces transaction friction significantly.
Assess operational capabilities, technology infrastructure, ERP systems, cybersecurity posture, and key person dependencies — critical for technology companies and businesses with complex operations.
A structured 5-stage process delivering comprehensive DD reports in 3–6 weeks.
Define DD scope, workstreams, and information requirements. Prepare customised DD request list (DDRL) and virtual data room (VDR) structure for efficient information management.
Manage information collection through VDR. Track document upload progress, issue follow-up requests, and conduct management Q&A sessions to fill information gaps.
Each workstream team independently analyses information. Financial analysts build QoE models; legal team reviews contracts; tax team analyses assessment orders; commercial team validates market data.
Consolidate findings from all workstreams. Classify risks by materiality (deal-breakers, price-adjusters, reps & warranty items) and quantify financial impact where possible.
Deliver comprehensive DD report with executive summary, key findings, risk matrix, and stream-by-stream detail. Conduct client walkthrough and provide SPA / deal term negotiation support.
Full picture of risks and opportunities. Negotiate with confidence. Structure indemnities and representations based on specific DD findings.
Start NowSystematic identification of financial, legal, tax, and operational risks — before you sign, not after. Every finding is an opportunity to negotiate better terms or walk away from a bad deal.
DD findings provide objective, quantified reasons to negotiate price reductions, escrow arrangements, or representations and warranties that protect against post-close losses.
DD findings directly inform SPA representations, warranties, indemnities, and conditions precedent — ensuring legal documents reflect actual risks found in the business.
Financial DD validates or challenges the seller's EBITDA normalisation — quality of earnings analysis often reveals inflated earnings that require downward valuation adjustments.
DD insights directly feed into post-merger integration planning — operational gaps identified in DD become priority items for the 100-day integration plan.
Identify and address regulatory non-compliance before close — preventing post-acquisition enforcement actions and ensuring a smooth regulatory change-of-control process.
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Extensive experience across M&A, PE investment, IPO preparation, and lender DD — in manufacturing, technology, healthcare, real estate, financial services, and consumer sectors.
Financial, legal, tax, commercial, and IT DD — integrated into a single report with a unified risk matrix, rather than separate stream-specific reports that leave the client to connect the dots.
Our proprietary DDRL, structured VDR approach, and experienced parallel workstream teams deliver comprehensive DD reports significantly faster than traditional approaches.
We translate DD findings into specific deal term recommendations — purchase price adjustments, escrow amounts, representations and warranties language, and condition precedent requirements.
As M&A and IPO advisors, our DD findings feed directly into deal structuring, SPA drafting, valuation adjustments, and post-merger integration planning.
High satisfaction from both buy-side clients (comprehensive findings) and sell-side clients (fast, buyer-accepted VDD reports that accelerated their deal close).
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