Due Diligence | Online Masterclass
July 2020
Date: July 24, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME:
Effective due diligence is a critical step for any successful merger, acquisition or investment deal. A detailed and accurate due diligence helps in identifying and analysing the opportunity and the risk involved in any transaction. It also helps in strengthening negotiating position by gaining more information about the position, composition and structure of the target company.
This due diligence masterclass will equip you with expertise to investigate and analyse the financial, legal, taxation, commercial and HR aspects of a company to acquire, merge or invest in. You will get practical know how which you can put into practice to enable your organisation achieve intended business goals. At this prestigious knowledge session, you would hear and interact with the industry’s best experts and learn from their varied experiences and the case studies of successful deals they have done across the industry.
Who Will Benefit:
- MDs, CEOs, CXOs, Senior Management Executives
- CFOs, Senior Finance Executives
- Directors of Strategic Planning
- Senior Executives of M&A Team
- Legal Heads, In-house Counsels
- Private Investors (PEs, VCs)
- Investment Bankers
- Valuation Professionals
- Senior Officials of Banks, FIs, FIIs
- Partners, Senior Officials of Law Firms
- Business Consultants, Analysts
- Learn how to identify a successful merger, acquisition or investment opportunity
- Understand the due diligence steps to identify the probable risks in the target company
- Strengthen your negotiating position by understanding the findings of due diligence process
- Learn due diligence techniques to ascertain financial, legal, tax & commercial position of target company
- Understand the HR due diligence process and its findings to establish synergies
Financial Due Dilligence
- What is financial due diligence?
- Need and objective of financial due diligence
- Types of financial due diligence
- Process and key benefits
- Focus areas
- Limitation
- Case study
Legal Due Dilligence
- Why is it necessary and important?
- Process and various steps involved
- Addressing concerns regarding confidentiality prior to start of the due diligence exercise
- Formats of legal due diligence reports based on the scope and type of transaction
- What to look for, how to assess risks, establishing the scope of legal due diligence
- Legal due diligence challenges and their resolutions
- Issues to be considered while conducting legal due diligence and assessing the risks in view of Covid-19
- Practical insights and case studies
- Case study
Tax Due Dilligence
- Importance of tax due diligence
- Issues to be considered while conducting tax due diligence in view of various tax reliefs given by the Indian Government in view of Covid-19,
- Approach to be adopted
- Typical issues and solutions
- Impact on transactions
- Case study
Commercial Due Dilligence
- What is CDD, in terms of typical scope? Purpose & elements of commercial due diligence
- Methodology for CDD
- Data sources
- Published & unpublished information sources
- Accessing unpublished information
- Integrating CDD with other diligence streams
- Case study
Subject Matter Experts:
- Ms. Shafaq Uraizee Sapre (Partner, J. Sagar Associates)
- Mr. Krishna Chaturvedi (Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP)
- Mr. Sankalpa Bhattacharjya (Partner & Leader – Deals Strategy & Operations, PwC)
- Mr. Prinut Shah (Partner, Ernst & Young LLP)