Advisory & Transformation
Technology and cyber due diligence for M&A.
Six-workstream diligence that surfaces the risks driving price, indemnity and conditions to closing, each finding routed to a negotiation lever. Partner-led fieldwork, mobilised in 48 to 72 hours, reported in time to move the deal.
What we do
Diligence that moves price and terms
Most technology diligence describes the estate. Ours prices it. Every key finding lands in one of four homes — closed before signing, written into the SPA, designed into the TSA, or placed on the Day-1 backlog. Nothing is left as an observation.
Six workstreams
Architecture, applications, infrastructure and cloud, cybersecurity, data, and technology organisation.
Hypothesis-led
A pre-mortem before fieldwork, so the team tests what threatens the thesis rather than auditing everything.
Calibrated controls
Maturity scored one to five against an independently sourced baseline for the sector and deal type.
Cyber depth
NIST CSF controls, identity, and ransomware resilience, quantified as exposure rather than listed as findings.
What you get
Deliverables
- A findings register that maps to price, terms and the Day-1 plan.
- A red-team challenge on the deal thesis before you sign.
- Quantified migration cost and cyber exposure.
- Walk-away triggers, named and evidenced.
- The same team available to fix what it found.
3–15% — the price adjustment range our diligence findings have supported in negotiation, with deal-breakers surfaced before signing rather than after.
RCK engagement records, 2026
Our approach
From thesis to negotiation lever
The RCK framework, applied to technology and cyber: Risk, Controls, Key findings.
Risk
A hypothesis-led pre-mortem before fieldwork. What threatens this thesis or this integration, specifically, for this target.
Controls
What mature looks like for this target, calibrated by sector and deal type, scored one to five against an independent baseline.
Key findings
Material gaps, quantified and triangulated, each routed to a negotiation lever: price, warranty, indemnity or condition to closing.
RCK supported the delivery of complex programmes. The RCK Partner showed real leadership, got results, demonstrated an ability to build relationships, and was skilled in building innovative solutions.
Group Commercial Director, Target Group / Tech Mahindra
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Scope an engagement
Price the estate, not just describe it.
Partner-led fieldwork mobilised in 48 to 72 hours, reported in time to move the deal.