Investigative Due Diligence

About

Provided by S-RM

S-RM’s Deal Advisory practice provides specialist support to clients ahead of transactions, delivering intelligence that informs investment decisions, addresses critical intelligence gaps, and answers strategic questions. The practice undertakes investigative due diligence into companies and prospective management teams to help investors identify, understand, and mitigate risk ahead of investments, M&A, capital markets transactions, joint venture partnerships, market entry, and other high-value commercial decisions.

The practice specialises in assessing integrity issues; reputational concerns; corporate governance; track-records; corruption, bribery and other financial crime concerns; political networks and relationships; regulatory dynamics; ESG issues; and cyber security concerns. The practice’s clients include law firms, leading private equity firms, development finance institutions, impact investors, multinational corporations, investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, and investment managers.

S-RM’s traditional investigators are supported by the company’s cyber security experts, who conduct dark and deep web research and identify cyber risks to investment targets.

The practice’s areas of particular expertise include:

• Pre-transactional due diligence
• ESG due diligence
• Asset provenance investigations
• Stakeholder mapping
• Market entry studies
• Background checks
• Cyber due diligence