Due Diligence

Negotiate with Confidence

Effective due diligence helps you manage business risk and equips you to negotiate the best possible deal from a position of strength. Through our interdisciplinary approach, we provide expertise in all facets of the transaction to ensure you make strategic investment decisions to benefit you now and in the future.

Our comprehensive due diligence process involves:

  • Understanding your transaction goals
  • Analyzing, testing and evaluating historic business data and forecasted financials
  • Reviewing the quality and sustainability of earnings, achievability of forecasts and identification of profit / cash flow drivers of the prospective business
  • Assessing the proposed acquisition’s tax structure and potential exposures
  • Evaluating the operational aspects of the proposed business, such as the company’s current management capabilities and allocation of resources to identify operational efficiencies
  • Reviewing and providing insight on strategic elements of the acquisition’s business, including corporate structure, level of integration and commercial risks

There are many benefits to working with our due diligence professionals, including:

  • Minimizing the time and cost invested in the acquisition process
  • Securing the best possible deal
  • Enhancing potential ROI on your acquisition Improved clarity of risk for management and financiers

Our due diligence services go beyond discovering and defining risks. We help you feel secure in your investment, ensure you’re not overpaying for an acquisition and that you have the full story before moving forward with a transaction.

 

Insights

  • Performance

    May 01, 2023

    What key characteristics can set your manufacturing business up to succeed during economic hardship?

    Are you taking the right steps to position your manufacturing business to succeed? These four key trends will help you drive value during economic uncertainty.

  • February 01, 2023

    A Year in Review – MNP Corporate Finance Transactions in 2022

    The following is a selection of MNP Corporate Finance transactions completed across Canada in 2022.

  • Progress

    January 11, 2023

    Value creation in an unconventional M&A environment

    Due diligence methods that worked in the past may not suffice in a post-COVID world, where protecting against downside risk has become more and more critical. 

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