60

60% of executives attributed deal failure to poor due diligence that did not identify critical issues. [1]

70

70% of time in the diligence phase is wrangling data and clarifying questions

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From pre-deal through to value capture, diligence represents 56% of the deal

Why Elbe?

Industry Challenges
Elbe
Lack of Insights

Lack of Insights

Advisor Grade Reports

Advisor Grade Reports

  • The regulatory tax and ESG environments are constantly changing with an ever-increasing complexity in tax law and more scrutiny from regulators.
  • Has 100+ years of subject-matter expertise across a breadth of domains and is always evolving, so you can be confident that there are no surprises with our advisor-grade summary and insights reports.
  • Provides you a disclosure schedule so you have the information you need to get tax insurance and RWI.
Deal Exhaustion

Deal Exhaustion

Better, Faster Deals

Better, Faster Deals

  • The average deal length is around 10 months with diligence taking up a large portion of the timeline.
  • Most of the diligence phase is spent on clarification and data organization.
  • Increases deal speed by providing advisor-grade information that will be applicable across the M&A life cycle.
  • Supports the interaction with your advisors, allowing them to focus on strategic items instead of project management and data wrangling.
Poor buyer/seller matching

Poor buyer/seller matching

Realize Fit Gap

Realize Fit Gap

  • Research shows that about 73% of deals are abandoned due to disagreements over valuation, regulatory concerns, or political headwinds.[1]
  • Provides a more thorough analysis up front to help buyers prove their investment thesis.
  • Encourages you to celebrate the deals you don’t close – don’t wait until the very end to realize fit gap.

OUR PRODUCT
Augment your toolkit
with a multi-domain

expertise M&A platform.

Comprehensive due diligence question set

Elbe’s technology is built for ease. With 100+ years of subject matter-trained logic, simplified language, and on-screen guidance, our questionnaire distills complicated diligence work-streams into intuitive question and answer flows.

Robust VDR + IRL

Our Information Request Lists (IRL) are generated from your answers to our questionnaire, so you only need to provide what’s necessary. Elbe’s VDR is simultaneously familiar and innovative, taking care of analyzing and organizing your data and documents.

Deal dashboard

When you’re working with multiple deals at the same time, it can become a cumbersome task just to stay organized. Our deal dashboard has all the important info you need at a glance, including your work-streams, tasks assigned to you, as well as the overall health and progress of your deal.

Buyer/investor reports

Move from defense to offense. Elbe presents actionable recommendations and insights that improve your deal’s success rate.

“Summary Reports”

  • Along the way, you will be provided comprehensive summary reports that detail your answers as well as any potential concerns.

“Insights Reports”

  • Based on your answers to the questionnaire and the documents provided to the IRL, elbe synthesizes your data and provides advisor-grade insight and recommendations instantly.

Use Cases

I am …

an investment banker looking to manage a sell-side/buy-side deal

  • Explore a user-friendly platform designed to close deals fast.
  • Assign diligence workstreams to appropriate personnel.
  • Elbe acts as an intuitive CRM for all your deals.
  • Prequalify your clients by helping them identify risks and opportunities early in the deal cycle.

an owner contemplating the sale of my business.

  • You want your business to be in good hands. Elbe makes it easy for first-time sellers to evaluate the health of their company and find the best buyer fit.
  • Front-load your diligence requests on your own time and understand blind spots upstream to avail yourself of opportunities pre-deal and command a higher multiple in the deal process.
  • Organize and make sense of all info requests and questions from buyers.
  • Elbe’s helpdesk functionality built by industry experts guides you every step of the way.

a broker trying to help my client get tax insurance.

  • Elbe has gathered decades of tax insurance expertise to deliver you a robust questionnaire that covers a multitude of tax positions and gives you actionable insights on policies.

a corporate lawyer helping my client with a purchase agreement.

  • With elbe, you don’t have to wait 3-4 months to get involved in the deal. Gain visibility as early as possible and focus on high-level advisory.