Investigative Due Diligence
By Joann Arweiler and Peter Woglom with BDO, a partner of the M&A Leadership Council

Access to information is one of the keys to managing risk in an M&A transaction. Investigative due diligence (IDD) should be placed alongside legal and financial diligence as a critical component of a buyer’s diligence process.

Deal or No Deal
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council

Often the best deals are those we never do. Today, many members of the M&A community appear to have misunderstandings about the real purpose of due diligence.

Our Partner BDO Holds Important Webinar
By M&A Leadership Council 

Get to Know Your Target via the Science of Due Diligence
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council 

As my good friend and co-founder of the M&A Leadership Council, Jack Prouty, says: “Due Diligence for the purchase of a company is much like the activities one undertakes when buying a home.” Simplistic? 

Hidden Data Within My Organization
Submitted by BDO, a partner of M&A Leadership Council 

Data volumes continue to grow despite efforts to reduce digital footprints across the organization. Wherever you look, every part of your organization stores data. Do you know where your EU personal data resides? Can you easily find it, correct it, provide a copy of it to a data subject, or even delete it?