Identify and minimize risk with relentless due diligence customized for your needs.
When it comes to transactions, timely information is critical. Wipfli delivers reliable analysis to help you nimbly navigate complicated transactions. With relentless due diligence, we identify and minimize risk and provide all the vital insights for moving ahead with a transaction, moving through negotiations, or moving on to the next opportunity.
Relentless due diligence and reliable analysis to navigate complicated transactions.
Ours is a customized approach based on your specific needs and budget, ranging from a comprehensive quality of earnings investigation and report to specific and targeted limited-scope analysis.
You’ll benefit from having access to a multifaceted team composed of transaction specialists, tax and technology experts, and seasoned industry professionals, all working to identify opportunities and exposures. More than simply telling you what’s wrong or problematic, we provide a list of actionable recommendations for improvement. All because we share in your ultimate goal: Maximize the value of the opportunity for the price paid.
Clients turn to us because the middle market is our accustomed territory and our leaders have been down these roads many times before Learn more about Wipfli's Private Equity Services Leadership Team.
Transaction advisory services include:
- Buy-side due diligence
- Quality of earnings (QoE)
- Quality of assets (QoA)
- Customized due diligence
- Cybersecurity assessment
- Information technology and information security risk assessments
- Culture, performance, and management assessments
- Sell-side due diligence and consulting
- Tax due diligence
- Federal
- State and local
- International
- Credits and incentives
- Cost segregation studies
- Research and development (R&D) tax credits
- Tax efficiencies and downstream investment requirements
- Divestitures and carve-outs
- Working capital analysis and disputes
- Field exams for lenders
- Investment banking and intermediary services
- Business valuations
- Post-transaction integration
- Post-transaction wealth advisory
Our team
Michael L. Vaccarella
Leveraging nearly 20 years of public accounting experience, including over 10 years specializing in mergers and acquisitions, Michael is a leader in Wipfli's private equity services practice. As a leader in the transaction advisory services, he provides and coordinates buy-side and sell-side transaction support and consulting for closely held corporations, family offices, and private equity funds and their portfolio holdings.
