Buy side due diligence

Potential issues

• You want to strengthen your company's core business by acquiring rival products that are almost identical in function/performance to your own
• You need to build on your company's existing activities by purchasing complementary products
• You want to purchase a company to gain access to its existing products in new markets, or to increase your customer base
• You need to expand your company's current portfolio of products and services through the acquisition of new ones - potentially to provide a hedge against the movements in the markets in which the company operates
• You want to spread your company's market risk by purchasing a company providing similar products or services in another country.

How we can support you

• By enhancing the purchaser's understanding of the target business and therefore increasing the likelihood of the deal achieving its objectives
• By helping you to identify and understand critical success factors and therefore improve your understanding of all the relevant issues so that informed decisions can be made
• By highlighting strengths that can be built upon or weaknesses that can be resolved.

More about PwC's financial due diligence services

• Commercial due diligence involves a comprehensive review of the company's business plan in the context of market conditions and the industry/competition
• Strategic reviews help companies formulate their corporate strategy and diagnose poor performance, providing a basis on which to prepare plans for improvement and to evaluate new markets and potential acquisition targets. In the case of financial institutions, they also help assess the feasibility of business plans.