Private Markets Due Diligence Places Outsized Demands on Dealmakers

Due diligence length and complexity doubles for private targets vs. public ones. Post this Key findings from the report include: The average due diligence period, from VDR opening to the public announcement of a deal, takes 234 days for a private target versus 125 days for a public one. In the last decade, the pre-announcement due diligence period has stretched to 203 days from 124 days in 2014. On average, private targets upload 7,583 files to a VDR versus 4,896 documents for a public deal. For medium-size ...