Our M&A Solution

A unique approach

Integrity due diligences are not intended to be deal-breakers. On the contrary, they should save you time in your investment process. They also serve to secure the transaction with respect to anti-corruption, ethical, reputational and legal compliance risks that the target company may pose to you. Finally, they can help you to better negotiate and above all, preserve and enhance the value of your future assets.

Phase 1

Search and selection

Focus on the essentials and save time at the best price by quickly eliminating from a portfolio of potential targets, those whose through an initial rigorous integrity check raises a profile that is incompatible with standard compliance and ethics requirements.

Phase 2

Preliminary negotiation

Engage in a dialogue with a thorough knowledge of the target and its main related parties thanks to additional rigorous checks, possibly including discreet field interviews. If necessary, improve its negotiation skills during these exchanges until the signing moment.

Phase 3

Checking and analysis

Between the signing and the closing, conduct, if necessary, a fully customized investigation. It allows us to definitively validate the target’s level of integrity and to measure the risk, in relation to the conditions precedent, based on the available documents, the exploitation of public sources and specific field actions.

Cécile Nzengu, COO of Skan1

M&A spere, expert’s opinion

Securing your M&A deal: a strategic challenge
Although the Sapin II law has set the rules of the game concerning companies’ commercial partners, M&A transactions do not yet fall within its scope.

Thus, while compliance procedures are flourishing within companies, it is clear that integrity due diligence is still far from being part of the “standard package” of audits engaged by M&A players.

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