Merger and Adquisition Due Diligence

Compliance–minded businesses that are aware of the potential impact environmental matters can have on the bottom line have begun to conduct due diligence with far greater breadth and depth than they have in the past. In the last 20 years, SMA’s consultants have performed due diligence assignments that have required interdisciplinary technical and scientific expertise, and business and transactional acumen as well. Clients are directly engaged with seasoned Principals and Senior Managers throughout the process, which also facilitates longer–term post-transaction support. We can draw upon our in–house experts in environmental remediation to address costing for sites with complex soil, groundwater and environmental exposure situations or potential situations. This depth and breadth of expertise has resulted in SMA due diligence personnel as being relied upon as strategic partners by many of our clients.

Our successful completion of a variety of assessments ranging from the transfer of small, single–site greenfields to large-scale deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars that involve a number of facilities has provided valuable insights into the relationship between material risk, environmental liabilities, and deal structure and value. We are responsive to time–critical demands, experienced in evaluating options for managing risk, familiar with financial valuation techniques, aware of the importance of exit strategies, and adept at identifying and implementing opportunities for reducing risk and increasing asset value prior to exit.

Comprehensive Risk Management
SMA’s consultants have firsthand experience in observing business impacts of unexpected environmental liabilities that come to light post transaction–problems that an appropriately designed due diligence process would address and potentially mitigate. Our due diligence professionals engage with engineers and scientists to focus on transaction liabilities that allow us to provide reliable estimates of the costs to further investigate and remediate sites with complex environmental conditions.