Transaction Services

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Our multifaceted approach for Transaction Services

BDO offers a comprehensive range of Transaction Services to empower entrepreneurs in navigating complex business deals. Our multifaceted approach includes Financial Due Diligence, Legal/HR Due Diligence, IT Due Diligence, Cyber Due Diligence, and Integration & Separation Due Diligence. 

Financial Due Diligence is our foundation, enabling you to make informed decisions by meticulously examining a company's financial records. We delve into its historical and projected financial performance to identify potential risks and opportunities. 

Our Legal/Social Due Diligence goes beyond the balance sheets, evaluating legal compliance and human resources matters. We ensure your transaction is free from legal entanglements and HR-related risks that could impact post-deal performance. 

In the digital age, IT Due Diligence is critical. BDO assesses the target company's technology infrastructure, data security, and IT strategies to uncover vulnerabilities and assess alignment with your goals. 

With the growing threat of cyberattacks, our Cyber Due Diligence scrutinizes the target's cybersecurity measures, protecting your investment from potential data breaches or disruptions. 

Lastly, our Integration & Separation Due Diligence ensures a smooth post-transaction transition. We assist in seamlessly merging or carving out business units, optimizing value, and minimizing disruptions. 

BDO's holistic Transaction Services offer you the insights and confidence you need for successful, risk-averse deals. With our support, entrepreneurs can execute transactions that foster growth and secure their financial future. 

How BDO can help

  • Based on an data-driven thorough due diligence, our team identifies the underlying value drivers, the necessary price adjustments to be operated and exposes all risks associated with the target company and the transaction.
  • If you simultaneously call in other experts (for example your bank, lawyer, real estate appraiser, environmental expert, etc.), we integrate their conclusions into a single clear report. Complete, coherent and without contradictory findings. 
  • Besides, our experts - and your central point of contact - are supported by a multidisciplinary team of specialists. After all, our reports consider all aspects involved in your transaction - legal, financial, fiscal and social. Always in line with your business, your strategy and your objectives. 

Our Transaction Services

  • We conduct a holistic legal and HR focused due diligence assessment and support you effectively in the SPA drafting and negotiation.  
  • Whether sell side (vendor due diligence, vendor assistance) or buy side, our financial due diligence assesses EBITDA, working capital and net financial debt normalization as well as normalized level of capex (incl. capex underspent). We thereby use our data analytics tools. 
  • We not only work on identifying tax risks, but also on remedying and setting up an optimal tax structure as from Day 1. 
  • We assess synergy and value creation opportunities, as well as operational and integration risks across the enterprise – including go-to-market, operations, supply chain, back-office and culture – to help validate the deal thesis, support the valuation model and prepare for post-diligence integration and value creation planning and execution. 
  • Identifying integration and separation complexities related to the deal. The deliverables address considerations on entanglements, financials, one-off costs, synergies & dis-synergies, transitional service agreements, integration & separation planning, change management and communication. 
  • BDO evaluates the set-up of IT with respect to IT strategy, IT organisation, IT sourcing, business and supporting applications, hosting set-up, IT financials, IT compliance and security, IT Project portfolio in relation to its ability to deliver on the overall organisational strategy and the deal rational. 
  • BDO evaluates the resilience, reliability, scalability and security of the current IT organisation and platforms, assesses if it will support the future business, and identifies remediation needs. 
  • BDO performs a due diligence on technology and digital products & services assessing the potential of a platform or digital product by evaluating its commercial potential, product roadmap, architecture, hosting & security, financials and development & delivery organisation.  

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