Due Diligence
Our Due Diligence services provide in-depth analyses of your IT infrastructure and processes. We examine system landscapes, security standards, and technology architectures, uncover risks and optimization potentials, and identify hidden vulnerabilities. This supports transactions, secures company value, and minimizes M&A risks. Our data-based approach creates comprehensive transparency, increases company value, and paves the way for smooth transactions.
Strategic Consulting
Service Components
With our in-depth expertise, we ensure that your IT transactions run smoothly and create long-term value.
Our IT/Tech Due Diligence includes a comprehensive analysis of a company’s entire IT infrastructure, software architectures, and security concepts. Using state-of-the-art analysis tools and proven testing procedures, we examine system architectures, network security, data integrity, compliance standards, and scalability aspects in detail. Our team of experts identifies critical vulnerabilities, technological risks, and optimization potentials that are essential for M&A transactions and strategic investment decisions.
Through well-founded reports and precise recommendations for action, we create maximum transparency and support you in optimally leveraging technological opportunities and sustainably minimizing risks. In this way, we increase company value and lay a solid foundation for future growth.
As part of the Valuation & Due Diligence for IT Targets, we specifically analyze the economic and technological key figures of potential IT companies. Our experts evaluate the quality of IT systems, software solutions, and innovation potentials using rigorous evaluation methods and benchmarking approaches. Both financial analyses and technical assessments are incorporated into our decision-making bases. This detailed evaluation identifies hidden value drivers and risks that can significantly influence the transaction price.
Our precise analyses provide you, as an investor or buyer, with a reliable decision-making basis, minimizing acquisition risks and securing long-term value creation potentials – especially in a dynamic market environment.
As part of technology- and software-driven transactions, our Software Due Diligence specifically analyzes the technological substance, scalability, and future viability of the target company. Our evaluation encompasses the entire technology stack, the software solutions deployed, as well as development processes and operating models. We place particular emphasis on the fit with the investor’s strategic objectives and the target’s ability to realize sustainable value contributions.
In doing so, we combine proven analysis methods with automated tools and evaluate technological maturity, innovation capacity, and potential risks. This is particularly crucial for well-founded investment decisions in high-growth software companies or early-stage tech startups.
Our modular testing components – from data room analysis through team and operations assessments to the evaluation of technological scaling potentials – provide you with a clear decision-making basis. This enables us to deliver a targeted assessment of technological opportunities and risks within the transaction process and act as a trusted advisor for strategists, private equity, or (corporate) venture capital investors alike.
Our Transition Service Agreement (TSA) Support accompanies you during the transition following M&A transactions and carve-out processes. We support you in planning, managing, and implementing transition agreements to ensure a seamless transfer of IT services and systems.
With a structured approach, we coordinate operational activities, preserve the continuity of critical IT processes, and ensure seamless business operations. Our team of experts develops customized service level agreements and monitors their implementation to minimize risks and realize synergies.
This enables you to efficiently manage the transition period and continue ongoing operations in a stable and future-oriented manner.
Our Contract Advisory consulting offers you strategic support in drafting and evaluating IT contracts. We analyze contract clauses, identify critical risks, and develop optimization proposals to best protect your business interests.
Thanks to well-founded industry knowledge and proven best-practice methods, we review both the technical and commercial aspects of IT contracts and actively support you in negotiations.
Our approach ensures that your contract terms are clear, transparent, and fair, and that long-term business relationships are fostered. This minimizes contractual risks and secures the success of your IT projects in a dynamic and constantly evolving market environment.
Professional Expertise
Our Competencies
Your Benefits in Focus
Advantages Through Clear IT Strategies and Secure Transactions
Benefit from well-founded transparency, early risk detection, and clear decision-making bases that pave the way for value-enhancing transactions
- Well-founded transparency of the entire IT landscape
- Early detection of critical risks and vulnerabilities
- Optimization potentials are systematically identified
- Decision-making bases for secure transactions
- Increase in company value through precise analyses
Success Stories
Experience That Counts
“With digatus, SFC Solutions has a competent and flexible IT partner who successfully executed the IT carve-out with expertise and personal commitment and now ensures 24/7 IT operations.”
Alessandro Iaccheo
Head of IT
SFC Solutions
Competent Advice at Your Side
Our Expert for Your Concerns
With around 20 years of experience in the IT sector, Robert Mair supports private equity investors and medium-sized companies in the successful implementation of IT M&A transactions and IT transformations.
As Head of IT Transaction & Transformation Services at digatus, he is responsible for IT support throughout the entire transaction cycle – from IT due diligence and carve-outs to post-merger integrations. His focus is on making IT risks transparent, identifying value potential, and positioning IT as an enabler for rapid and sustainable value enhancement.
With his extensive project experience in international and national transactions, he understands both the requirements of investors and deal teams, as well as the needs of operational management in medium-sized companies. He combines strategic foresight with pragmatic implementation – for IT solutions that accelerate transactions and sustainably embed transformations.
