M&A Due Diligence Checklist
Commercial, financial, legal, and tech diligence essentials.
“Due diligence is not a checklist to tick — it's a stress test to pass. Every deal that unraveled after close had red flags in diligence that someone chose to ignore.”
The Insight
The purpose of diligence is not to rationalise a decision you've already made. It's to find the 10% of facts that would kill the deal if you knew them. Good diligence is deliberately hostile to its own thesis — and catches the problems that integration can't.
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Commercial Diligence
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Financial and Legal Diligence
Three-year audited P&L, cash, and balance sheet. Each line has a dedicated specialist — cheap insurance compared to surprises.
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Technology and Culture Diligence
The Takeaway
Hostile diligence. Across all four dimensions. The deal that survives full diligence is the deal worth doing. The one that doesn't — isn't.
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