ABSTRACT
The due diligence is a bit of a grind and really so it should be. If you want to find out if the acquisition is viable, you have to be on the premises for about two weeks. Sure you can tell yourself that you have all the data and that you can study it in the comfort of your own conference room and that e-mails and telephones are there for asking questions. I’m afraid that’s not going to do! There simply is no substitute for eyeballing the prospective acquisition or the client and seeing the operation; you never know where the key tipping point information will come from.
