Pre-Deal People Diligence
The data room tells you what you're buying. It's quiet on whether you can keep it. Before close, we assess whether the leadership will stay, where the talent risk sits, and whether the savings and growth in your plan are actually deliverable.
Why it matters
Financial and legal diligence are thorough. The people risk, the thing that most often sinks the return, usually gets a paragraph and a gut feel. By the time you find out the founder was the business, or half the team is a flight risk, the price is already paid.
We give the deal team an evidence-based read on the human side while there's still time to price it in, walk away, or plan around it.
What we assess
What you walk away with
A clear view of whether the people risk is manageable, mispriced, or a reason to walk.
The retention costs, earn-outs, and safeguards you should build into the terms, not discover after.
The beginnings of the integration and retention plan, ready the moment the deal closes.
Related services
Put a number on the people risk you found, before it becomes a number in the model.
People Synergy Audit →What happens after close, when two organizations have to become one.
Workforce Transition →Identify the people whose departure would change what you just paid for.
Retention & Flight Risk →Bring us in during diligence.
Tell us the target and timeline; we'll scope a fast, confidential people-diligence read that fits your process.
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