BUYER SERVICES

Financial and tax due diligence services to help minimise risk and maximise value

Our buyer services assist private equity and corporate clients to evaluate key value drivers and risk factors associated with potential targets, enabling them to:

• Gain an understanding of significant patterns in the target business’ historical performance
• Evaluate the quality and sustainability of the target business’ reported earnings and free cash flow
• Analyse the quality of net assets being acquired
• Understand historical working capital patterns and identify opportunities to mitigate working capital levels after closing
• Assess the achievability of the target business’ financial forecasts
• Address key tax and financial reporting risks in purchase agreement negotiations
• Evaluate post-closing purchase price adjustments
• Consider the effects of purchase accounting and valuation requirements in post-transaction financial models for recently acquired businesses.

Contact the European Head of Transaction Advisory Services