Topic · 22 chapters
IT due diligence playbooks for testing technology risk, cost, scalability, cyber exposure, separation complexity, and deal implications.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How technology creates or destroys value in M&A, and how to turn the deal thesis into technology gates, dates, and a sequenced plan that protects Day-1.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How tech due diligence changes investment outcomes: use it to move price, value timing, and Day-1 decisions before the deal model hardens.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
A deal team guide to using sell-side diligence to speed the process—without confusing “a clean story” with an executable plan.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
What good IT due diligence looks like: five evidence-backed artifacts that turn findings into price, timing, and a Day-1 plan you can execute.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How tech due diligence differs between private equity and corporate buyers, and how to set scope, outputs, and decision triggers for each.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
A fast-cycle tech diligence playbook to pick the few questions that set the deal clock, cash needs, and downside protection.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
Seven tech due diligence red flags that should force a walk, reprice, or restructure call, with the evidence to ask for and decision triggers.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
A diligence framework to underwrite whether the IT team can run the business and deliver the deal agenda—and what it costs to de-risk the first 100 days.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How application due diligence finds the systems that set the deal clock, turns technical debt into mandatory cash, and protects value before signing.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How infrastructure and cloud due diligence tests cost, scalability, control, and recovery, and when the findings should change price, terms, or timing.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
A cyber due diligence framework to test which issues change price, timing, connectivity, and first-100-day execution before the buyer inherits the risk.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How data due diligence tests whether management reporting, data quality, and KPI logic can support the investment thesis after close.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
An ERP due diligence method to test when system fit, condition, and change capacity should alter the investment case, one-time cash, or integration plan.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How to find contract and licensing terms that change TSA cost, run-rate, separation timing, and the buyer's freedom to execute the deal plan.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
An IT due diligence approach for normalizing IT run-rate, separating mandatory spend from upside, and protecting the EBITDA case before signing.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How to spot the technology dependencies that set the separation or integration clock before the deal team locks price, TSAs, and Day-1 commitments.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
Where AI can compress tech due diligence work, where it creates false confidence, and how deal teams should govern AI-assisted findings.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
How buyers can use AI-assisted codebase analysis in tech due diligence to find application risk faster without unsupported conclusions about code quality.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
Where AI can improve cyber, data, and operational risk detection in diligence, and how to keep the outputs tied to deal decisions rather than noise.
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Pre-deal and tech due diligence ·
A deal-team checklist for using AI in diligence without creating false precision, data leakage, weak attribution, or unsupported investment conclusions.
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Deal structuring and pre-close planning ·
A deal-team method for turning tech due diligence findings into price, timing, and funding decisions in the investment thesis before you sign.
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Deal structuring and pre-close planning ·
Turn technology diligence findings into owned actions, decision gates, funding, and Day-1 protection before the transaction closes.