Some of the strategic goals for organisations include expanding their market base and/or diversification of their products.

Expansion can be through setting up a new entity in new market areas, acquisition of an already exciting entity, a merger or a buy in.

Whereas expansion through a merger, buy in or acquisition is an easy way of increasing the organisation’s market share, companies adopting this expansion model can also inherit huge undisclosed liabilities and/or ghost assets. This may significantly negatively affect the financial and or asset position of the company and leave the organisation worse off than it was before the acquisition, merger or buy in.

SKM’s Transaction Services team which is comprised of the financial due diligence team, tax due diligence team and the legal due diligence team have successfully assisted organisations plan and execute acquisitions, mergers and buy in transactions.

Our financial due diligence team, tax due diligence team and the legal due diligence team adopt a robust full risk based review methodology which enables us to flag out any potential risk exposures that exist which our client needs to consider.

Our financial, tax and legal due diligence covers both the buyers’ side and the sellers’ side. We also assist our clients in settling in from an accounting, reporting, tax and legal perspective once the transaction is concluded.