M&A Technology Due Diligence & IT Integration
Close With Confidence. Integrate Without Disruption.De-risk your deal. Quantify synergy. And execute a Day-1 integration with zero disruption.
In any merger, acquisition, or carve-out, the biggest financial risks and opportunities are hidden in the technology. Undiscovered tech debt, critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, or hidden scalability constraints can destroy a deal’s value post-close.
Authentic Bridge provides the forensic-level technology due diligence that protects your valuation and negotiation leverage. We go beyond the checklist to provide a clear, quantified view of the risks you’re inheriting and the true opportunities for synergy.
Your Objective Partner at the Deal Table
We serve as your objective, C-suite-level partner—not just an audit firm. We translate complex IT findings into the language of business value.
Our M&A technology due diligence services are designed to give deal teams, lenders, and executives the hard numbers they can trust. We provide a quantified synergy roadmap with clear, dollar-based impacts on cost, revenue, and EBITDA, ensuring your investment thesis is built on a rock-solid foundation.
Our End-to-End M&A Advisory Services
Pre-Deal: Buy-Side & Sell-Side IT Due Diligence
- Surface Hidden Risks: We uncover hidden tech debt, compliance gaps (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR), cybersecurity risks, and platform scalability constraints that could threaten the deal.
- Identify & Quantify Synergy: We translate discovery findings into a quantified synergy roadmap with clear dollar-based impacts on cost and revenue, giving you trusted numbers for your financial models.
- Strengthen Sell-Side Posture: For sellers, we conduct a pre-diligence audit to identify and remediate issues, ensuring you go to market with a clean, secure, and well-documented tech stack that protects your valuation.
- Secure Cyber & Compliance: We assess and close inherited vulnerabilities before they become a post-close crisis, safeguarding you from costly fines and reputational damage.
Post-Deal: M&A Integration & Value Creation
Once the ink is dries, our post-merger integration expertise ensures you capture the value you planned for.
- Day-1 Continuity, Zero Disruption: We craft the critical Transitional Service Agreement (TSA), carve-out, and access plans to keep systems humming and customers served from the moment the deal closes.
- Execute the 100-Day Integration Sprint: We act as your on-demand leadership to orchestrate the people, processes, and platforms. We manage the integration, complete with milestone dashboards and executive heat maps to track progress.
- Culture & Talent Preservation: A successful M&A integration is about more than systems. We identify key technologists, align organizational structures, and implement communication cadences that retain critical know-how and boost morale.
- Deliver Investor-Ready Reporting: We provide concise, board-grade updates that track synergy realization, risk remediation, and integration ROI in a single, clear pane of glass.
Frequently Asked Questions: M&A Technology Diligence
What is due diligence in mergers and acquisitions?
Due diligence is the comprehensive investigation and audit performed before a deal is signed. Technology due diligence, our specific expertise, is the forensic-level review of a target company’s IT systems, platforms, processes, and teams.
The goal is to uncover hidden risks (like tech debt or cyber vulnerabilities), validate the quality of the technology assets you’re acquiring, and accurately quantify the opportunities for synergy. It’s the process that protects your valuation and ensures the deal you think you’re making is the deal you’re actually making.
Do you have experience with healthcare, home health, or hospice M&A?
Yes. Our team, led by Ed Malinowski, has deep, hands-on experience leading technology strategy and diligence across the healthcare ecosystem. This includes work with large corporations, non-profits, and private-equity-backed companies in the payer, provider, home health, and hospice spaces.
We have specific, real-world expertise in navigating the critical regulatory frameworks like HIPAA and assessing the complex, specialized technologies (like EMRs, billing systems, and data-sharing platforms) that power these organizations. We ensure your deal is compliant and your integration plan is realistic from Day 1.
What IT factors are most important to consider when merging businesses?
Our entire due diligence process is built to find the “unknown unknowns” that can destroy a deal’s value. While every company is unique, the most critical factors we investigate are:
- Cybersecurity & Compliance: What are the hidden vulnerabilities? Are there active threats? Is the company truly compliant with HIPAA, PCI, etc., or just “checking a box”?
- Hidden Tech Debt: Are the core platforms built on obsolete technology that will require a multi-million dollar replacement?
- Platform Scalability: Can the company’s systems actually support the growth you’ve modeled in your investment thesis?
- Data & IP Ownership: Does the company truly own its core data and intellectual property, or is it locked into a bad third-party agreement?
- Vendor Contracts & Licensing: Are you about to inherit massively expensive or restrictive software contracts that will trigger “change of control” clauses?
- The Technology Team & Culture: Who are the key technologists you can’t afford to lose? Is the team’s culture compatible with yours?
Our job is to find the answers to these questions and translate them into clear financial and operational impacts before you sign.
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