M&A due diligence support

A deal runs on a checklist

Every UK buyer's team works from broadly the same request list: clean historicals, an explanation of anything unusual in the numbers, a working capital trend, and a clear picture of who the customers and suppliers actually are. We build that pack directly from your books so it is ready before the request lands, not assembled under a two-week deadline.

Turning reported profit into a number a buyer trusts

The centrepiece is usually the adjustment schedule: above-market director pay added back, a one-off professional fee stripped out, a discontinued line removed from the trend. Every adjustment carries its own paper trail back to an invoice or a bank entry, because an add-back nobody can support tends to make a buyer question every other number on the page too.

The peg that decides the final price

Most sale agreements set a working capital target calculated from an average over several months, and that figure often gets argued over harder than the headline price. We build the trend behind it and a proposed peg early, so it is a starting position you control rather than one the other side proposes first.

Housekeeping that can quietly stall a deal

Increasingly, a UK buyer's lawyers also check whether directors and anyone with significant control have completed the identity verification Companies House began phasing in from 18 November 2025. It is a small point next to the financial schedules, but an outstanding one can slow signing regardless of how clean the numbers are, so we flag it in the same pass. We act for one side of a transaction only, never both, and work directly with your solicitor and any external quality-of-earnings reviewer, applying the same review lens whether the work starts ahead of a sale or once a deal is already moving.