Due diligence services involve procedures of inquiry and the exercise of care that a reasonable firm or individual is typically required to undertake before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or taking action under a specific standard of care.

SARDAR KHAN & CO uses a targeted and customised approach to quickly recognise and grasp possible deal breakers, value drivers and other areas of particular interest to our clients so as to maximise the value of every deal. Using a distinctive combined approach, our experts have extensive experience providing financial accounting due diligence, commercial and market diligence, operational due diligence, tax due diligence, valuation services, and IT due diligence.

Key Types of Due Diligence Services

Legal, financial, and commercial are the three primary types of due diligence. Though they have historically been different, the best due diligence systems encourage close collaboration since the studies in one domain might often guide the checks being conducted in another. Many organisations today provide an integrated solution tying these threads.

Comprehensive Legal Due Diligence Review

Legal due diligence aims to examine the legal foundation of a transaction, ensuring that the target company possesses or has the right to use the intellectual property necessary for its future success.

Other fields will probably be investigated:

• legal structure
• contracts
• loans
• property
• employment
• pending litigation

Financial Due Diligence & Risk Analysis

Financial due diligence reviews the financial data provided and evaluates the company’s underlying performance.

• This would be expected to consider areas such as:
• earnings
• assets
• liabilities
• cash flow
• debt
• Management

Commercial & Market Due Diligence

Commercial due diligence looks at the market where a company is located, for instance, by conducting interviews with clients, evaluating rivals, and doing a more in-depth study of the assumptions underlying the company plan. All of this is meant to see if the business plan matches the market’s demands.

Additional Due Diligence Areas

Other forms of due diligence include taxation, pensions, information technology systems, and intellectual property.

Among our integrated due diligence services are:

• Commercial Due Diligence
• Financial Accounting Due Diligence
• Operational Due Diligence
• Diligence in Information Technology
• Evaluation Services
• Investigative Due Diligence

Tax Due Diligence

One of the most important components of every merger or acquisition is identifying tax risks and structuring an optimal tax arrangement. Our experts evaluate possible exposures and opportunities to deliver the advanced tax intelligence necessary well before talks start.

Advanced Investigative Due Diligence Services

We pioneered the concept of investigative due diligence. Whether underwriting an IPO, evaluating a merger or acquisition, engaging in a joint venture, or venturing into a new market, our investigative due diligence capacity offers a consultative approach to clients pursuing big and innovative projects.

We provide specialised solutions in matters involving integrity concerns and background information on counterparties that traditional financial and legal investigations may not fully address. We support clients who engage in the following by helping to pinpoint risk so that transactions may continue or be changed:

• Acquisitions and mergers
• Public offerings
• Funding
• Collaboration projects

Private equity, venture capital and other investments

Clients use SARDAR KHAN & CO when they require a consultative and thorough investigative procedure to find major facts, then tie the dots. 

Former prosecutors and members of law enforcement and investigative organisations, forensic accountants, financial analysts, computer and cyber-crime experts, corporate governance experts, former business journalists, and litigation consultants constitute the global team of SARDAR KHAN & CO. The range of specialists at SARDAR KHAN & CO allows us to incorporate into our cases complex and advanced fact-finding methods and analytical approaches. Every project benefits from real-world ideas brought by our specialists as well as an unmatched skill to transform unprocessed data into relevant business intelligence.

Our work includes a comprehensive examination of public documents and interviews of human sources, as well as a custom investigative due diligence for every client and their particular requirements. SARDAR KHAN & CO does not rely solely on databases and computer-based sources. These sources are sometimes unfinished or occasionally revised. Thus, SARDAR KHAN & CO undertakes field research in developed and emerging countries and uses this data to spot hazards.

Our offerings include research, analysis, and verification of important data, including:

• History of rules, penalties and offences
• Civil suits and criminal prosecutions
• Corporate, partner, and other business records
• Property and other asset-related origins
• Professional history and education
• Corporate and personal reputation

Business Valuation & Fair Value Advisory

Businesses that deal with transactional data recorded at fair value, including private equity firms, hedge funds, investors, and contracting parties, are subject to periodic valuation assessments.

As fair value establishes itself in financial reporting and contract agreements among buyers, sellers, clients, suppliers, and employees, its complexity rises. Fair value calculation is often now needed for routine commercial operations as well as for strategic investments.

Our personnel come from reputable national independent valuation firms and major accounting firms. Along with a solid grounding in fundamental valuation principles, each of them comes from a specialised field. Building upon SARDAR KHAN & CO industry-focused groups, we draw on years of expertise from a broad spectrum of sectors. SARDAR KHAN & CO brings all of this to the table for our customers as they assess a company or other deal. A technical accounting team experienced from the national offices of major accounting firms keeps track of accounting standards and regulatory changes with valuation ramifications.

Global Due Diligence & Cross-Border Investigations

With our extensive network and global reach, we offer clients enhanced investigative capabilities. Particularly when records are not easily accessible electronically, due diligence of foreign entities may call for more knowledge of local laws, languages, or cultures. Our team has worldwide assistance abilities.

Key Transaction Risks & Strategic Considerations

• Acquiring competing products with similar functions or performance can help strengthen your firm’s core business. Businesses may acquire complementary products or services to expand their existing operations.
• You want to buy a business either to expand your customer base or to get entry to its current goods in new areas.
• Acquiring new businesses can help broaden your existing products and services, provide a hedge against market fluctuations, and diversify your company’s geographic and operational risk.

How We Support Your Transaction Success

• By improving the buyer’s knowledge of the intended company, hence raising the probability that the transaction meets its goals.
• By assisting you in recognising and grasping important success elements, hence enhancing your grasp of all the pertinent topics, enabling informed decisions to be made.
• By drawing attention to advantages that may be developed further or flaws that may be fixed;
• Through more abilities and initiative to satisfy the level of scrutiny demanded by outside stakeholders;
• By providing confidence that new operational models are feasible;
• Through agreement among key stakeholders on major decisions;
• By offering coordinated assistance to satisfy corporate demands.

More about SARDAR KHAN & CO’s financial/commercial due diligence services

• Commercial due diligence includes a thorough examination of the company’s business plan in the context of market conditions and industry competition.
• Strategic reviews assist businesses in developing their corporate strategy and spotting subpar performance, hence laying a foundation for planning improvement programs and assessing new markets and possible acquisition candidates. 

Why Choose Us?

Our practice is known for delivering precise business insights and practical, results-driven solutions. For our recommendations on business transactions, this means:

• Preferred strategic advisor. To address their toughest issues and open their greatest potential, our financial and corporate customers choose to partner with us.
• Strict company perspectives. To build ideas about companies methodically, we offer independent viewpoints and sector expertise. We work at speed with clients without sacrificing quality.
• Highly involved, top-calibre teams. We have great people who collaborate with customers to get things done. We consistently receive excellent feedback from clients regarding their experience working with us.

The SARDAR KHAN & CO approach to identifying and analysing core business fundamentals combines financial expertise with commercial insight.

Seeking to comprehend and summarise the whole business for our clients, our multidisciplinary teams focus on company drivers, balance sheet pillars, major management, important relationships, and taxation.

Having accurate data and a clear understanding of your company’s key strategic drivers is essential for effective decision-making.