GKC Associates
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Service 05 of 06

Due-diligence support

For investors, acquirers and partners who need the facts about an Indian business, laid out clearly for their own advisers and their own decision. We gather and organise; we do not issue an opinion.

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01When it helps

You may need this when…

  • 01An investor wants to understand an Indian business before a term sheet becomes final
  • 02A company is preparing its own data room before it raises money or sells
  • 03A joint-venture partner wants the other side's records checked for completeness
  • 04A lender asks for operational information beyond the financial statements
02What you receive

Four things, in writing.

Each deliverable is yours: built in your tools, owned by a named person in your team.

05.1

Request list

A document and information list tailored to the business and the transaction.

05.2

Data room

Indexed folders, version control and a tracker of what has come in and what is outstanding.

05.3

Business and operations review

How the business earns, who its key people and suppliers are (by role, never named publicly), how its processes run.

05.4

Findings summary

Facts, gaps and questions for the buyer's lawyers and financial advisers, with references to source documents.

03How it runs

Four stages.

Dates for each stage are fixed in the written scope before work starts. The full method

  1. Scope

    What the decision is, and what must be known to make it.

  2. Collect

    Request list out; data room opened.

  3. Read

    Documents reviewed, management interviewed.

  4. Report

    A factual summary with every point sourced.

Boundaries

What this is not.

  • An audit, a review engagement, a valuation or any report that carries an opinion. Those are for the professionals the law or the transaction requires.
04Questions

Common questions.

Can you prepare our data room before we approach investors?

Yes. A seller-side data room built early shortens every later conversation.