Buyer-side M&A due diligence before acquisition close.
A red-flag-first M&A assessment for buyers and investors, covering technology debt, security exposure, integration effort, key-person risk, and inherited vendor commitments inside the deal window.
Runs on the Galactus assessment platform: anchored questions, evidence-based scoring, and red flags that override averages. Probe depth scales with the access your deal allows. See how our assessments work
50 anchored questions · 7 scored domains · priority mode for compressed DD windows
We run both sides of the table: buyer-side IT Due Diligence and seller-side Exit Readiness, on the same instrument. See Exit Readiness
The mandate starts with the decision, owner, time window, and evidence that could change the answer.
Scope, exclusions, evidence access, and uncertainty are made explicit before conclusions are presented.
Sven leads the work directly and closes with clear ownership, decisions, and next actions.
Protect the deal window
Technology debt, exposure, integration effort, and inherited commitments are translated into consequences the deal team can act on before close.
Deal question
The review starts with the investment thesis and the deal questions that technology can materially change: continuity, scalability, integration or separation effort, security exposure, key-person dependency, and the reliability of the cost base.
Red flags
A technical weakness matters when it affects valuation, warranties, escrow, conditions to close, day-one continuity, or the first 100 days. Findings are therefore framed by consequence and evidence strength, not by severity labels alone.
Value impact
Applications, data, identity, infrastructure, vendors, licenses, operating capability, and technical debt are tested against the proposed integration or separation model. Where evidence allows, the review exposes likely cost, timing, and dependency implications.
Deal action
The output separates confirmed red flags, open questions, assumptions, and post-close actions so investors, legal advisers, management, and integration owners can use the same evidence without receiving a generic technology report.
Decision dossier
The useful boundary is visible before the work begins: the decision, the evidence, what is excluded, and what happens next.
Whether the target's IT changes valuation, deal protections, integration assumptions, the day-one plan, or the investment thesis.
Technology debt, architecture, security and continuity exposure, applications and data, team and key-person risk, vendors and licenses, integration or separation implications, cost, and evidence coverage.
Legal, financial, tax, or cyber-forensic opinions; code-level product diligence unless specifically added; and post-close integration delivery.
Data-room material, contracts, architecture and asset records, security and incident evidence, cost and staffing data, project information, and management interviews within the access allowed by the deal.
The deal team receives a concise red-flag chapter, quantified implications where evidence allows, open questions, and actions for terms, day one, and the first 100 days.
Timing
1–2 weeks
Delivery owner
Every mandate is led directly by Sven Van Roosenbroek. Specialist involvement, when needed, is made explicit in scope.
Commercial model
Fixed fee shaped by deal window, target complexity, and available access.
Thirty minutes is enough to establish fit, the right depth, and the next responsible step.