Due Diligence

Targeted, risk-based and nuanced reviews

We are regularly engaged to apply our leading investigative forensic review and risk assessment methodologies to pre- and post-acquisition reviews, third party and supply chain due diligence. Corporations, law firms and investors have engaged us on behalf of buyers and sellers, at a local and multinational level, for specific targets and systemic reviews. Our risk-based approach is tailored to the objective and scope of each exercise, and can include:

• Risk-based transactional testing with data analytics applications, factoring industry and country-specific risks  
• Controls testing and enhancement
• Identification, collection and analysis of all types of data
• Interviews with relevant parties, including key management
• Investigating improper financial conduct

Our teams of forensic accountants, compliance experts, investigators, data analysts and data engineers specialize particularly in AML and Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Fraud, Accounting and Audit, and more (read more about our specializations). We have also performed industry-specific enhanced due diligence (EDD) or customer due diligence (CDD) in relation to highly regulated sectors and challenging jurisdictions.  

Strategic advisers throughout the M&A lifecycle

We bring decades of experience preventing and detecting misconduct or supervising remediation in M&A. We are regularly retained to assist companies in developing robust pre and post-acquisition due​ diligence reviews in relation to issues of vicarious and successor liability. Our M&A reviews determine the state of the target’s books and records and​ its internal controls, which allows the acquirer to identify high-risk areas and any necessary remediation steps pre- and post-closing.

Balanced, data-driven approach to third party due diligence

Generic third party due diligence is no longer sufficient in today’s climate of potential scrutiny from regulators, courts, investors, counter-parties, the media and the public. At the same time, due diligence procedures need to be viable and sustainable for the business. Our risk-based approach allows clients to strike an informed balance between commercial and compliance risk objectives.