M&A Financial Due Diligence

It is senior-led buy-side or sell-side diligence that tells you what a target's numbers really mean before you commit capital. We test revenue quality to separate durable earnings from one-time or fragile gains, normalize working capital, debt, and debt-like items, and scrutinize add-backs so only adjustments that hold up to evidence make it into the price. The result is independent confirmation of earnings rather than a restatement of the seller's own reporting.

The right moment is once you are under LOI, when the clock is running and you need to know whether the target's earnings hold up before you sign the purchase agreement and wire funds. Engaging early leaves room to renegotiate price and terms, or walk, while you still can. Sellers should engage earlier still, to get diligence-ready before the buyer's team arrives.

You get findings in plain terms that a deal committee and lender can act on, not a black-box model. That includes independent confirmation of earnings, a lender-ready report your bank can rely on, and early flags on red flags that surface before the wire rather than after close. Where the numbers warrant it, those facts become leverage to reprice the deal or restructure terms.

Since 1983, Inglewood has staffed diligence with senior professionals only, and a senior partner leads every engagement. That means partner-level judgment on a deal of this consequence, without layers of junior overhead. Diligence, quality of earnings, and valuation sit under one senior transaction team rather than being handed between groups.

Yes. For sellers, we get your financials diligence-ready before the buyer's team lands, so add-backs and working capital positions are already tested and defensible. The same senior team can also carry the underlying quality of earnings and valuation work, which keeps the analysis consistent when the buyer's advisors start asking questions.