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Pre-Transactional Due Diligence

Recent global events have created an environment potentially rich in acquisition and investment opportunities for cash rich businesses. However even within the more regulated markets, risks exist below the radar and outside the scope of the standard pre-acquisition financial and legal due diligence. Business practices that are key to sustaining to the balance sheets of a soon to be acquired mid-sized local or regional entity may be unclear during acquisition, and at worst such practices may be dangerous to fatal for a buyer with a more international regulatory nexus. Such local practices may involve leveraging off key multi-generational family or community relationships for operating licenses. They may extend to questionable import and export processes and partners, creative taxation disclosures, and to outright corrupt practices to win contracts or to be paid for projects. However almost none of these elements would be detected within the scope of a standard financial and legal due diligence process. To make matters worse the patterns of these concerns differ dramatically by region, industry and even within industry verticals. Deep local knowledge is required to know what to look for, with even deeper reach being required to discreetly be able to identify the nature and extent of a potential risk.

For over 20 years PSA has supported multinational companies in local acquisitions. During this process we regularly identify deeply ingrained cultures of corruption, or other questionable practices within a local company and its management, that while sustaining to its financial health, are untenable to its new multinational buyer. Leveraging off yeas of experience, capable in house teams, and deep local networks PSA comes to each opportunity with a unique methodology tailored to identify the most prominent, highest potential impact and most likely risk within that local environment, and supports the process with the ability to discreetly collect critical information to support the clients determination.

In addition to our pre-acquisition experience, PSA has a substantial and ongoing track record of supporting financial institutions with large-scale pre transactional work. The pre-transactional team routinely conducts pre-IPO and other transactional due diligence aimed at identifying a range of off-balance sheet regulatory, ESG, and reputational risk.

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Third-Party Due Diligence

3rd party vendors, agents, and suppliers generate a range of risk for an organization, including corruption, bribery, sanctions violations, regulatory exposure, and operational risk. Jurisdictions with the greatest opportunity for growth are often the most opaque suffering from weak domestic regulatory and governance programs and affording limited visibility from a company’s operational center. Compounding these concerns most companies have thousands of third parties operating across multiple areas requiring specialist language and local knowledge to effectively monitor and review .

For 20 years PSA has helped international business manage their risks as they expand across emerging and into frontier markets. PSA’s due diligence offerings are global, robust, scalable, and produced by in-house teams of analysts with the local language skills and specialized geographic experience to support effective third-party management programs wherever your next challenge emerge.

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SAAS based Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms combined with screening 3rd party screening tools are a critical component in the fight to manage 3rd party risk. However, screening and monitoring can only go so far. In over 92% of instances in which PSA has identified a significant risk during 3P diligence, no issues of concern were first identified from reports done by the leading global regulatory screening tools. Informed Human Analysis must be the essential next step in your risk-based approach when identifying and remediating risk. However with hundreds or thousands of vendors, going outside of your platform environment to obtain this additional necessary element, and then bringing the findings back into the system can be overwhelmingly labor intensive.

PSA’s due diligence offering comes already pre-integrated into 3 of the leading global GRC platforms. Once enabled in your system you will be able to extend the utility of the platform from initial screening, to reviewing and managing, and now out to one click-to-order PSA reporting, all without ever having to leave the platform. This integration allows you to access PSA’s multi-level global report offerings, from a simple desktop and records review up to and entirely bespoke investigative response, all without ever having to leave your platform environment.

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The US Department of Justice’s 2020 guidelines on the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs highlights the importance of engaging in “risk management of third parties throughout the lifespan of the relationship.” Managing third-party risk is therefore an ongoing process.

Extend the effective lifespan of your PSA due diligence by seamlessly tasking the continuous monitoring of your 3rd party Subjects. Avoid alert fatigue and time-consuming false positive remediation by letting our experienced analysts filter potentially high volumes of automated findings for you. Receive only prequalified alerts which plausibly relate to your report subject, and which require your attention and remediation.

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ESG Due Diligence

As stakeholders increasingly demand sustainability and social responsibility, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors are fast becoming a key part of public disclosure. In the coming years, US, EU, and other authorities will increasingly prescribe due diligence or disclosure requirements meant to address ESG issues in value chains. Companies face increasing pressure to integrate ESG concerns and other risk management programs under one roof however there are few solutions available to explore and capture this risk that are beyond static national level or aggregated climate data but before a comprehensive and often deeply invasive audit by a specialist consultancy.

PSA ESG Due Diligence is informed by a close reading of the relevant literature along with regulatory guidance as it relates to ESG. With the aim of providing human analysis and the data collection to enable concerned organizations to pick up where national level or aggregate data sets and automated solutions end, PSA’s ESG reporting offers a detailed exploration of a counterparties:

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