M&A IT
Due
Diligence.
Find what the seller's CIO forgot to mention. Infrastructure, security posture, licensing exposure, and integration cost, modeled and reported in time for the deal.
Plain English
What is
M&A IT Due Diligence?
M&A IT due diligence is the structured pre-close assessment of a target company's technology landscape, infrastructure, security, licensing, applications, talent, and integration cost. For buyers, it's the work that identifies hidden liabilities and informs deal value. For sellers, it's the prep that gets you to a clean diligence with no surprises during the buyer's review.
What's Included
What's
In Scope
Infrastructure Assessment
Hardware lifecycle, data center exposure, network architecture, cloud spend, lifecycle and warranty status.
Security Posture Review
Frameworks alignment, controls maturity, incident history, exposure scan. Where would an acquirer flag risk?
Licensing & Compliance
Software inventory, license entitlements, true-up exposure. Microsoft, Oracle, VMware. Where the audit risk lives.
Application Portfolio
What's mission-critical, what's at end-of-life, what's a custom-built dependency. Integration complexity map.
Team & Vendor Map
IT org structure, key dependencies, MSP relationships, hidden talent risk. Who walks if the deal closes?
Integration Cost Model
What's the realistic post-close integration spend? Year 1 and year 2 estimates with sensitivity ranges.
How We Engage
Our
Approach
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Brief
Initial call with deal team and VDR access. We size the engagement and align on scope within 24 hours.
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Diligence
Document review, interviews with target CIO/CTO, walkthrough of critical systems. 2 to 4 week sprint depending on deal size.
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Report
Executive-grade report: findings, valuation impacts, integration cost, prioritized risks. Suitable for IC and board.
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Post-Close
Optional integration planning and execution. We know what the gaps are, so we're the fastest team to close them.
Who This Is For
You'll Recognize
Yourself Here
Private equity buy-side
Mid-market deals where IT is a real component of value or risk. We work fast and report to your IC standard.
Strategic acquirers
You're integrating a portfolio company onto your platforms. Get the integration cost right before signing.
Sell-side prep
You're going to market. Clean up the licensing exposure and security gaps before diligence.
Carve-out specialists
Separating an IT estate from a parent company. We map the dependencies and design the cutover.
Roll-up platforms
You're acquiring multiple targets. We standardize the diligence framework and accelerate each one.
Family office / independent sponsors
Smaller deals where the GP doesn't have an in-house tech function. We're your tech function for the deal.
Partner of Choice
Why Tech Critic
Real architects on day one
Senior infrastructure architects with 15+ years of enterprise scars, not pre-sales people in disguise. We've designed networks for hospitals, banks, and manufacturers.
Vendor-neutral, not vendor-naïve
Deep hands-on across Cisco, Palo Alto, VMware, Microsoft, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Nutanix. We recommend what's right, not what pays the highest margin.
Fixed-scope, milestone-based
Written estimates before any work begins. Most engagements are priced by deliverable, not by the hour. You always know what 'done' looks like.
End-to-end ownership
From design through cutover through 90-day post-launch tune-up. We don't disappear after kickoff and we don't blame your team when something needs tweaking.
Five offices, one standard
Dallas HQ, Bogotá and Medellín for LATAM nearshore, plus Lahore and Dubai. Every office is ours. We don't outsource.
Operations playbooks included
Every deliverable comes with runbooks, dashboards, and documentation good enough that your team can actually own it after we leave.
You've Got Q's
We've Got A's
Don't see your question? Just ask.
How fast can you turn around diligence?
Most engagements: 2 to 4 weeks from data-room access to final report. Larger or more complex deals (multi-platform, regulated industries) run 4 to 6 weeks. Rush turnarounds available for the right deals.
Do you talk to the target's IT team?
Yes, with the seller's permission. We typically run 3 to 6 interviews with the target's CIO, CTO, lead architects, and operations leads. Without access to people, the document review alone misses too much.
Do you provide a valuation impact estimate?
Yes. We quantify identified risks where possible, licensing exposure, deferred maintenance, integration cost, so your deal team has numbers to negotiate with.
Can you support the integration after close?
Yes. Many clients carry us forward into post-close integration since we already know the gaps. We also hand off cleanly if you have an in-house integration team.
Diligence That Doesn't Slow The Deal.
Send a NDA and a deal brief, we'll come back with a scope and timeline within 24 hours.