Uncovering Unknown Dependencies

Luxury division of FTSE 100 global corporation acquired industry vertical specialist media and data services provider for £40mil acquisition. Technology, data and IP due diligence was required to complement to ensure integrability and identify synergies.

BML has successfully supported the buy side on multiple transactions and was again engaged with the mandate to do comprehensive technology, data, cyber and IP due diligence centered on sell-side operations and alignment with buy side-fit and investment objectives. We didn’t just highlight red-lines and risks, but effectively quantified risks and opportunities. This engagement identified 3rd party IP dependencies that were unknown even by the sell-side. We enabled clear estimation of impacts on valuation, integration considerations and achieving investment objectives. We further used this due diligence to define an approach for value preservation and adjustment of consideration to factor IP dependencies and critical remediations.​​

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Discounted Valuation

• £3 million discounted consideration to provision for resolving 3rd party IP dependencies and tech debt remediation​.

Contained Risk

• Established permanent IP licensing agreement for product critical 3rd party service dependencies.​​

Integration Clarity

• Proactively defined a plan for tech debt remediations during integration​.

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