Services
Due Diligence & Transaction Advisory
Whether buying or selling, you need fast diligence and sharp insights to reveal risks, uncover value, and make confident decisions. Are you ready to maximize your deal’s potential?
How We Help
Buy-Side Diligence
With over two decades of transaction experience, we deliver critical insights that drive better investments. We assess risks, opportunities, and entanglements across operations, technology, and people to give you the clarity needed to make confident decisions. Our team doesn’t just deliver data; we provide actionable recommendations that align with your investment thesis and position your asset for long-term growth.
Sell-Side Support
Preparing to sell? We help you position your asset for success by stress-testing operations, identifying vulnerabilities, and creating a cohesive narrative to maximize buyer confidence. From addressing gaps to building sell-side materials, we ensure you’re ready to command top value. Our comprehensive standalone cost models and separation strategies prepare you for smooth execution while reducing the risk of buyer pushback.
Value Identification for Underwriting and Post-Close
We don’t just uncover risks; we help you quantify and unlock value. Using proprietary tools to access the target’s data and deliver precise insights, we identify margin improvement, cost reduction, and revenue growth opportunities that can strengthen your investment thesis. Post-close, our Value Management Office (VMO) ensures synergy objectives stay on track, refining and prioritizing efforts to deliver measurable ROI.
Comprehensive, Industry Expert Diligence
Our diligence approach is built on over 20 years of advising on thousands of transactions, giving us a unique database of benchmarks across spend, headcount, and other operational metrics. Organized by specialty, we dive deep into the specifics of your target’s industry to deliver fast, highly nuanced assessments. Our diligence framework balances risk identification with value creation to provide a comprehensive perspective:
- Technology: We evaluate infrastructure, scalability, risks, and necessary investments. Our proprietary tools highlight where future-proofing is critical to support growth.
- Cybersecurity: We identify vulnerabilities, ensure regulatory compliance, and safeguard against post-close risks.
- Operational: We assess operational efficiency, scalability, and alignment with growth plans while uncovering potential cost-saving opportunities.
- Commercial: We analyze market positioning, customer retention, revenue potential, and competitive differentiation.
- Compliance: We ensure alignment with specific industry regulations and identify potential liabilities that could derail success.
- People/Org: We evaluate the organizational model, leadership alignment, and talent retention risks, ensuring cultural fit and operational readiness.
The Case for Due Diligence & Transaction Advisory
- 70–75%
acquisitions fail, based on a study of 40,000 deals over 40 years
- 7/10
private equity executives plan to leverage more data in future diligence
- 60%
executives attribute deal failure to poor diligence missing critical issues
What We’ll Achieve
Smarter Decisions
Gain clarity and confidence through rigorous, cross-functional diligence.
Enhanced Value
Identify margin, revenue, and cost-saving opportunities pre- and post-close.
Seamless Execution
Mitigate risks and align strategies to maximize deal success.
Sustained Growth
Prepare assets to thrive with long-term operational and cultural alignment.
Why West Monroe?
Unmatched Industry Expertise
We’re leaders in diligence for healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, software, insurance, and energy. Our industry-focused teams combine nuanced expertise with technology insights to provide a complete view of risks and opportunities.
Flexible and Fast
From rapid assessments to comprehensive diligence, we adapt to your needs with speed and precision. Our industry-specific insights and cross-functional expertise ensure nothing is overlooked.
Shared Impact and ROI
We prioritize measurable outcomes. By focusing on the value that matters most during transaction advisory—whether operational efficiency, EBITDA growth, or cultural alignment—we deliver results that drive shared success.