Due Diligence

Value creation through investments, partnerships, and acquisitions requires top-tier due diligence to gain transparency and assess true potential. Due diligence should reflect an impartial perspective to avoid unwarranted enthusiasm for a company. Ultimately, our client's goal is to position themselves as attractive bidders while being empowered to capture value after deal closing.

• Due Diligence in the context of acquisitions, investments, and partnerships

• Red flag due diligence assessments

• Management of complex due diligence projects and data rooms

• Due Diligence in clean team situations

• Strategic, operational, technological, and product Due Diligence

• Sell-side due diligences as well as exit or carve-out planning

The experts and partners at XQUENT bring extensive experience in company acquisitions and die diligences, each with over a decade of leadership in investing, buy-side M&A, corporate finance projects, and hands-on management in the respective area of due diligence. Their unparalleled sector focus spans software, IT services, business services, industrial technology, clean tech, consumer goods, internet, and other innovative sectors, driving exceptional project outcomes. XQUENT is 100% independent, ensuring unbiased perspectives while leveraging a global reach with inherently local market insights. At XQUENT, client projects are operationally led by partners and senior experts, a strategic decision that forms the foundation for delivering superior results.

Due diligence - transparency and actionable potentials.

Together with our clients, we help develop a compelling investment approach, review the investment plan, and zero in on the factors that determine the success or failure of a transaction. In close collaboration with our clients and management teams, we work out a strategy for value creation, backed by solid business cases and actionable measures at the operational level.

This expertise is further enhanced by industry benchmarks. As part of the due diligence process, we engage in rigorous discussions with stakeholders such as customers, suppliers, or selected executives. XQUENT provides focused and action-oriented expert due diligence assessments, leveraging the capabilities of over 500 experts in our network.

Our understanding of due diligence extends beyond merely gaining transparency over risks and mitigation measures; it involves a thorough value assessment of potential, honed through the following perspectives:

• Commercial Due Diligence: This encompasses market and competition analysis, covering all aspects of the business model including services, products, or customers, as well as value creation.

• Operative Due Diligence: This includes an examination of services, organization, technologies, processes, vendors, and economic efficiency in functions such as sales, marketing, customer success, or operations.

• Technology Due Diligence: This covers the evaluation of applications, infrastructure, IT projects, IT organization, cybersecurity, vendors, and economic efficiencies for the IT function and digital products/ services.

XQUENT does not offer separate due diligence in finance, tax, or legal. Selected service providers can be recommended upon request and seamlessly integrated into the project workflow.

Due diligence requires functional expertise in the industry.

We operate on the principle: The best experts for each industry. We don't just analyze market data and outside-in information; our deployed due diligence specialists are also operationally rooted in their respective industries and functions.