Acquisition due diligence

The deal as the documents tell it.

The desk reads the data room for an acquisition (offering memorandum, rent roll, leases, estoppels, title, environmental and property-condition reports), checks each document against the others and against your underwriting, and drafts the issues list and diligence memo. For asset managers, investment managers and REITs.

An acquisition data room, checked document against document, with the issues that matter in front of the deal lead.

Why it's hard

  • A data room holds hundreds of documents, and the timetable is fixed by the purchase agreement.
  • The rent roll, the leases and the tenant estoppels are meant to agree, and often do not.
  • Findings reach the investment committee as spreadsheets and email threads, without the source behind each one.

In the demo

The estoppel that disagrees.

The rent roll shows the anchor tenant paying full rent. The tenant's estoppel certificate reports a rent abatement agreed in a side letter that is not in the data room. The agent finds the contradiction, shows both documents side by side and proposes a re-price.

How the desk runs it

Six steps. One decision is yours.

  1. 1

    Intake

    The data room opens one case per deal: offering memorandum, rent roll, leases and amendments, estoppels, title commitment, survey, environmental and property-condition reports.

  2. 2

    Assess

    The agent ties every lease to the rent roll and to its estoppel, reads title exceptions and report findings, and compares what it finds with the assumptions in your underwriting model.

  3. 3

    Decide

    It lists every issue with its source and its effect on income or risk, and proposes a recommendation: proceed, proceed with conditions, re-price or walk away.

  4. 4

    Approve

    A person

    The deal lead reviews the issues and approves the recommendation for the investment committee.

  5. 5

    Act

    The diligence memo is drafted, a request list goes to the seller for missing or conflicting items, and title objections are prepared.

  6. 6

    Record

    The memo, the issues list and the source documents are filed to the deal record.

Outcomes

ProceedProceed with conditionsRe-priceWalk away

Works with

  • Your underwriting model
  • Your deal data room
  • Your document repository

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