Integrity Due Diligence

Pursuing a merger, acquisition or a joint venture is a high-stakes endeavour. Pre-transactional due diligence by KPMG Forensics can help identify when the reputation of the target company, or one of the third parties they work with, is not aligned with the interests or risk appetite of yourshareholders, customers, employees and brand. Knowing about any potential risks in advance can help you mitigate any financial impact.

• We can undertake open source research on companies and individuals anywhere in the world to help you objectively determine whether the potential transaction has a reputational, jurisdictional or financial crime risk not identified in standard financial due diligence. This can include undertaking research to identify fraud, bribery, corruption and sanctions risks.
  
• We also help our clients identify third party risk exposure at acquisition to enable you to efficiently and effectively onboard a large number of new third parties. We can help you risk assess these new third parties by conducting initial screening and, for higher risk third parties, undertake enhanced due diligence.

Third party suppliers such as sales agents and consultants are regularly used to conceal financial crimes. Supplier due diligence can help you understand more about who you are doing business with. Such transparency helps you mitigate risks in your supply chain in order to avoid the disruption and costs associated with fraud, modern slavery, bribery and corruption and other reputational and financial crime risks.

• Using specialist tools, we can help risk assess third party suppliers and sales agents anywhere in the world by undertaking initial screening and, for those identified as higher risk, enhanced due diligence. This information can be usedto inform the control framework for higher risk third parties.
• We can investigate the background, track record and connections of key suppliers, sales agents, consultants and distributors through targeted open source research.
• We can perform compliance supplier audits to assess control maturity across financial crime risks such as fraud, bribery and corruption. Such reviews can also test adherence to service level requirements and quantify any financial penalty associated with failure to meet the requirements.

If you have any queries on how our services could benefit your business, please get in touch with Katherine Gillespie of our Forensic team. We'd be delighted to hear from you.