SERVICES:

Transactional Due Diligence

For private equity investors, investment bankers, hedge funds and corporations involved in vetting potential partners, investors, buyers and sellers, The W Group provides valuable and timely information designed to minimize transactional risk and assist in structuring complex deals. As business intelligence specialists, we have assisted our clients avoid front-page scandals, promoters who exaggerated revenue and profit claims, operators with prior business failures, or those with a concealed past. We use all the traditional sources of vital data (public record repositories, electronic databases, the Internet) as the point of departure, not the final destination. We closely examine and analyze the available record for telltale clues and patterns of behavior. Where appropriate, we conduct discreet inquiries to develop a more detailed, nuanced understanding of potential partners, joint ventures, vendors, and key executives.

Experience:

• For a merchant banking concern, we uncovered the hidden past of a potential new partner, including the fact that he had served time in a federal prison and had changed his identity upon his release.
• For an investment banking concern, we revealed the identity and ties of a key “deal partner”, who had been previously arrested on a currency smuggling charge. This information, concealed from the parties assembling the deal, surfaced in a detailed due diligence investigation of the individual.
• In one matter, our investigation determined that the principal in a transaction had previous links to an international drug smuggling operation.