Financial, tax, and operational due diligence for investors, founders, and acquirers — written for the deal, not the file.
Financial, tax, operational, and the work most firms don't mention: pre-diligence readiness for founders who want to be prepared before an investor asks. We do all four with the same rigour.
For investors, acquirers, and PE funds evaluating a target. We assess quality of earnings, working capital, net debt, and off-balance-sheet exposures, surfacing the risks that affect purchase price and deal structure before they surface at the closing table.
For founders and promoters preparing to exit or raise institutional capital. We run the diligence on your own company first, finding the issues that would otherwise be found by the investor, so you can fix, explain, or price them correctly.
Tax positions, contingent liabilities, transfer pricing exposures, GST compliance, and pending proceedings, assessed for materiality to the transaction. We identify what needs to be indemnified, escrowed, or restructured before the deal closes.
For founders raising equity who want to be ready before the investor's DD team arrives. We build the data room, prepare financial statements to GAAP standard, and run a light pre-diligence review, so there are no surprises at the term sheet stage.
The three numbers that move purchase price, Quality of Earnings, Working Capital, Net Debt, and the six surrounding areas where risk hides. Every mandate covers all nine.
A data room is not a folder. It is the single most visible representation of your company's operational competence to every investor evaluating you. Disorganised, incomplete, or slow-to-respond data rooms kill deals, quietly, before the investor says a word.
We build data rooms, index them to institutional standards, manage the Q&A process, and maintain version control across simultaneous diligence tracks. We have done this from inside a company under live investor pressure. We know what organised looks like, and what it costs when it isn't.
Indicative folder map for sell-side and pre-raise prep, before investors start asking.
Open the checklist →Folder structure mapped to institutional diligence checklists, financial, legal, tax, commercial. Investors find what they need without asking twice.
Financial statements to GAAP standard, management accounts, MIS, cap table, contracts, prepared and formatted before they are requested.
Diligence queries tracked, assigned, and responded to on a defined cadence. No question goes unanswered. No thread goes cold.
Permissions managed by investor, document version control maintained, access logs tracked. Clean. Defensible. Audit-ready.
Multiple investors, multiple timelines, one data room. We coordinate without confusion and without exposing one investor's questions to another.
Every mandate has a defined scope, a structured output, and a clear line of communication. Four phases, no surprises.
Every mandate begins with a defined scope, agreed between Dissent, the client, and where applicable the target, and a structured information request list mapped to that scope. Nothing is open-ended.
The substantive work, interrogating financial statements, running working capital analysis, stress-testing earnings quality, and identifying the exposures that aren't in the data room. Management interviews conducted with structured questioning protocols.
The diligence report is not a summary of what we found in the data room. It is an independent assessment of what the numbers say, what they don't say, and what the risks mean for the transaction. Written for decision-makers, not auditors.
Diligence findings feed directly into deal terms, indemnities, price adjustments, warranties, and conditions. We stay engaged through negotiations to ensure the report is used, not filed.
PE funds, family offices, strategic acquirers, and angel syndicates evaluating a target company. They need an independent view of the numbers, written by people who understand what the numbers are trying to hide.
Promoters and founders preparing for a full or partial exit. They want to know what investors will find, before investors find it. Vendor DD lets you fix, explain, or price issues correctly rather than negotiate them away at closing.
Startup and growth-stage founders about to receive institutional capital. They want to be diligence-ready before the investor's team arrives, financials in order, data room structured, management prepared for Q&A.
Sell-Side Diligence: four free applied courses on one company preparing for a Series B. Same facts. Same register. Same pressure you get on a live mandate. Finish the pathway and you earn the credential.
Tell us the deal. Five fields, we will come back within 2 working days with an honest view of scope, timeline, and whether we are the right fit.
Every submission is reviewed by a practitioner. Not an intake team.
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