Mergers & Acquisitions
Protect the buyer’s existing GRC posture before you inherit someone else’s risk.
An acquisition can introduce security, privacy, regulatory, technology and governance weaknesses that are expensive to discover after completion. Dataweb provides buyer-side due diligence that identifies what is being inherited and what integration will demand.
Risk-led, not checklist-led
The scope is established during discovery and reflects the target, deal context and the acquirer’s existing control environment. Areas can include information security, data protection, regulatory exposure, ISO/framework maturity, AI use and governance, third-party risk, technical debt, incident history, policies, controls and integration dependencies.
Designed for decision-makers
The report separates deal-relevant issues from operational detail. Material findings are explained in terms of impact, likelihood, remediation effort, integration consequence and where appropriate conditions or priorities for the transaction.
Protect what already works
The buyer may already have a strong governance and security posture. Due diligence should therefore ask not only “is the target compliant?” but “what will this acquisition do to our existing risk profile and control environment?”
After completion
Where useful, Dataweb can support the post-acquisition integration plan so identified issues move into controlled remediation rather than disappearing into a report archive.
Anonymised engagement example
Buyer-side review of an acquisition target’s information-security and governance environment, followed by a prioritised integration plan to protect the acquirer’s existing controls while inherited weaknesses were addressed.
Start with the problem
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Tell us what you are trying to achieve, what is getting in the way and when you need to move.