Preparing your company for M&A due diligence
Preparing for market? Get the diligence documents ready. Before the data room opens.
Your investment banker, advisor or buyer will ask for documents across the business. When the request reaches business continuity, incident response, critical vendors, cyber risk or contingency planning, the answer cannot always be pulled from an existing file. Continuity Strength helps create the missing plans and evidence before, during and after diligence.
Missing documentation can surface at any point in the transaction.
A company may discover the gap while preparing the data room, when the buyer sends its diligence requests, during management diligence, or after diligence identifies work that still needs to be completed.
Before Diligence
Preparing the Data Room
The investment banker or M&A advisor provides the starting document list. Management begins gathering materials and discovers that some requested plans or evidence do not exist in usable form.
During Diligence
Responding to Buyer Requests
The buyer and its specialists request documents, ask detailed questions and examine how the company manages critical operational dependencies and disruption.
During Review
Addressing Identified Gaps
A diligence team identifies a continuity, incident response, vendor, cyber or contingency gap that requires a stronger answer than the company can currently provide.
After Diligence
Completing Remediation
Some findings remain as pre-close or post-close action items. Continuity Strength helps turn those findings into completed documentation and evidence.
The request arrives. The document needs to exist.
The exact diligence request depends on the company, buyer and transaction. These are the areas Continuity Strength helps companies and startups prepare and document.
Create the evidence that is missing.
Continuity Strength does not run the transaction, conduct financial Quality of Earnings or replace the diligence team. We help create and organize the documentation a company or startup needs when those materials are requested or a gap has been identified.
Business Continuity
Create and maintain business continuity documentation covering the company's critical operations and recovery needs.
Incident Response
Create practical incident response documentation for cyber and operational incidents.
Vendor and Dependency Oversight
Create and maintain vendor oversight evidence when critical third-party dependencies become part of diligence.
Testing and Cyber Evidence
Document tabletop testing and provide current cyber risk information when buyer or advisor review calls for it.
A diligence request can expose more than one gap.
When transaction preparation exposes missing continuity, compliance, vendor oversight or testing evidence, Continuity Strength can support the underlying work before, during or after diligence.
You identify what the transaction requires. We help create what is missing.
Continuity Strength works alongside the professionals already managing the transaction. We provide a defined resource when a company or startup needs to create or strengthen continuity and resilience documentation.
Investment Bankers and M&A Advisors
When data room preparation exposes missing business continuity, incident response, vendor or contingency documentation, Continuity Strength gives the client a resource to get the work completed before or during diligence.
Private Equity and Diligence Teams
When diligence identifies a continuity or resilience gap, Continuity Strength can work with the company to create the evidence required to address the finding before close or as part of post-close remediation.
Transaction Counsel
When a diligence request calls for operational documentation that the client does not have, Continuity Strength provides a resource for creating the underlying evidence while counsel remains focused on the transaction.
The transaction team identifies the requirement. Continuity Strength helps the company or startup produce the documentation needed to respond.
Get the missing documentation out of the diligence queue.
Whether you are preparing the data room, responding to buyer requests or addressing a diligence finding, Continuity Strength can help create the business continuity, incident response, vendor and resilience documentation your company or startup does not yet have.