M&A Due Diligence

With companies frequently changing hands in today’s highly competitive business environment, buyers and sellers need reliable assistance in managing the complexities of the process. EKS&H Business Consultants have extensive experience helping clients evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities, seller preparedness as well as aid in the wide variety of tax structuring issues and options available to both buyers and sellers.

We provide timely, creative and confidential services to companies in a variety of industries. Our approach includes the following elements:

Quality of Earnings Evaluation

Our due diligence process is collaborative, responsive and unique. We involve clients directly in the process as information becomes available to address issues timely. Further, our due diligence team consists of accomplished professionals who have significant experience both in public accounting and private industry allowing for observations to be made both from a financial standpoint as well as a business one. Finally, our data mining tool, IDEA, allows us to develop metrics that give the buyer valuable detailed information that in most cases is not available otherwise.

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Post-Transaction Integration

We have developed a suite of services designed specifically for the first 100 days after the close of the transaction. These services focus on planning for the new organization, personnel hiring and development, IT services, management compensation and financial projections and forecast that help carry out the original investment goals that were the driving force of the acquisition. We find that companies that implement a well developed strategy realize their goals faster, better and more effectively.

Seller Preparedness

We help maximize the value and success of the sale of a business by highlighting key value drivers, identifying potential financial or tax issues for resolution prior to buyer’s diligence, and present the seller and advisors with an objective view of deal breakers or potential purchase price adjustments.

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