M&A Consulting

In the interest of Due Diligence, we support buyers and their financing partners in evaluating the target of acquisition. The individual needs of our client are important to us, and the process of fulfilling those needs is therefore constantly fine tuned in close consultation with the client.

Covering the buying process, GCI Management offers the following services:

• Commercial Due Diligence – It is our job to gain a solid understanding of your business, its processes, its strengths and weaknesses within the current competitive market environment, and calculate your future opportunities and risks. Our experienced consultants analyze your company and its market, conduct interviews with market specialists and compile the results in a balanced, comprehensive manner. In particular, when market insecurities or competitive difficulties arise, Commercial Due Diligence takes on even greater importance.

• Financial Due Diligence – These days, Financial Due Diligence is a permanent component of any business transaction and is a natural result of the business owner’s obligation to the company. Along with corporate planning, the core component is the analysis of asset, financial and earnings positions in order to better evaluate prospects and risks. Using our own checklists in combination with industry benchmarks, we are able to target and track down unsettled issues to provide qualified Commercial Due Diligence results. The buyer’s position is clearly strengthened by this information.

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This type of company overview can serve as the basis for all further decisions in the selling process. In fact, such Due Diligence analyses are increasingly being offered by the seller (“Vendor Due Diligence”) in order to save transaction time and additional costs.

For additional Due Diligence analysis components (tax, legal, technical), we are pleased to help you in choosing experienced, qualified specialists and to undertake coordination and integration into the entire project.


For the buyer, the advantages of an in-depth Due Diligence analysis are:

• identification of hidden opportunities as well as risks
• reduction of transaction risk through increasing the transparency of information identification of potential deal breakers, and the development of strategies and measures to defuse them
• strengthening of bargaining position opposite the seller
• price reduction
• revision of corporate planning and design of an “acquisition case”
• knowledge of off-balance liabilities and risks