Mergers & Acquisitions
Security Leadership For Buyers And Sellers, From Diligence Through Closing
Every acquisition carries the target’s security history into the transaction, including problems nobody has found yet.
Riskadvize puts a seasoned security leader beside counsel and the transaction team, for the buyer or the seller.
Buyers learn what they are acquiring before they sign. Sellers find and address their gaps before a buyer does.
When Riskadvize Represents The Buyer
When the transaction closes, the buyer owns the target’s security history, including breaches already underway. Regulators have held acquirers responsible for intrusions that began before the acquisition and continued through it. In a merger, both organizations carry their security history into the one that survives, and both deserve the same scrutiny.
Security review is often rushed to keep the transaction on schedule, and the problems it does find rarely make it into the valuation or the terms.
Riskadvize finds what the target is really carrying, puts it in terms the transaction team can negotiate, and leads the work of securing the target after closing.
From Diligence Through The First 90 Days
When Riskadvize Represents The Seller
A buyer’s diligence team looks for every security gap it can use to lower the valuation or add holdbacks.
Sellers who find those gaps first can fix them, explain them, or disclose them on their own terms.
Riskadvize prepares the organization before it goes to market and stands with it through the buyer’s questions.
From Preparing For Market Through Closing
Findings stay confidential to the side Riskadvize represents, developed under counsel’s direction.
What Changes For The Organization
Buyers know what they are acquiring, and security problems show up in the valuation and the terms, not after closing.
Integration starts from a plan, so the buyer knows which inherited risks it owns and how each will be managed.
Sellers go to market with their gaps already found, leaving buyers less to discount as risk.
Both sides close on disclosures and answers that hold up afterward.
Prepared For Each Phase
Every security problem in a transaction is found eventually. Riskadvize makes sure it is found before signing, not after closing.