Solution

Private Equity Due Diligence

Make better investment decisions by holistically assessing a target acquisition's full potential.

Our integrated due diligence solution delivers the insights you need to make great investment decisions with confidence. We apply an investment thesis-led approach informed by deep experience and an unrivalled set of capabilities, tools, and assets. Our robust, outside-in due diligence addresses all critical deal elements—from commercial, operational, and technology considerations to ESG opportunities and risks—to ensure that you fully understand the upside potential and downside risks of any investment and have a clear agenda for creating value when the deal is closed.

What To Expect

Unrivaled expertise: Our expansive global network of industry and capability experts, deep knowledge of sector and sub-sector challenges and opportunities, and our own investor mindset ensure we efficiently assess critical deal criteria, capture key interdependencies, and define the value creation potential.
Broad capabilities: We have specialized diligence capabilities that span commercial, operational, technology, environmental, and digital considerations, delivered in a flexible and nimble way to enable investors to build conviction throughout the deal process.
Integrated perspectives: Our robust approach seamlessly integrates across our diligence capabilities to provide a holistic perspective on the most important topics, identify key value levers, and mitigate potential risks for prospective owners.
Proprietary insights: A best-in-class ecosystem of proprietary, internal, and external third-party data sources powered by advanced analytics and AI-enhanced automation is applied across all our workstreams.
Tailored approach: Our partnership-driven approach ensures we deliver against the most important questions for investors, while creating buy-in with the target’s management team.
Investor mindset: As investors ourselves (with an impressive record, see the MOIC performance data below) we understand the challenge of discerning good deals from bad and meet it by continuously leveraging our investment portfolio learnings to refine our diligence approach.

Our Private Equity Due Diligence Experience

19,000+

due diligence cases since 2000

50%+

of scale buyout transactions advised since 2000

2.4x

MOIC for Bain co-invest funds

Our proprietary tools and analytics

Bain’s approach to due diligence leverages a best-in-class ecosystem of data, analytics, and digital tools to deliver better insights faster.

Proprietary tools and in-house digital capabilities which maximize efficiency through web-scraping, automation, GenAI, and advanced data analytics
Industry-leading ecosystem of proprietary and alternative datasets with 1T+ data points
Dedicated team of experienced PE-focused data scientists