Your journey · External growth
Your company is buying. You are working the file internally.
The opportunity is identified: a competitor, a retiring peer, a complementary business. The file lands on your desk, on top of everything else.
What is at stake right now.
Your team knows its trade; reading a seller's file is another one. The restatements, the walk from enterprise value to equity price, the off-balance-sheet commitments do not guess themselves.
The risk: tying up weeks of management time on a file that did not deserve it, or paying for the target at the price of hoped-for synergies rather than of its accounts.
What Diligeo brings at this stage.
An independent workup of the file, to the same standards as for an individual buyer: restated profitability, valuation, total cost, risks. Delivered within 24–72 business hours, ready to put in front of your board or committee as is.
Framework terms exist for professional acquirers and serial transactions.
What we do not do at this stage.
- We do not advise on acquisition strategy: choosing the target is yours.
- We do not value synergies: we value the business as it stands.
- We do not carry search mandates.
The next step.
Describe the transaction you have in mind: we agree on scope and timing.