Due Diligence Preparation Services
Silver makes a culture of compliance realistic
With most investors conducting formal due diligence pre-investment, fundraising can be daunting. Unprepared investment firms struggle to answer pointed questions and meet the monopolizing demands of investor due diligence.
Since a single red flag can drive assets elsewhere, successful fundraisers prepare by looking inward to root out potential concerns before prospective investors do. They also dedicate resources to instill investor confidence with thorough, timely responses to each particular request.
Silver helps investment firms achieve fundraising success by gaining investor trust.
Silver takes on investor due diligence as if it were a regulator exam. Our investment, operations and compliance professionals leverage proven regulator exam preparation techniques to ready clients to withstand investor scrutiny. Additionally, Silver satisfies the episodic, yet critical needs of managing investor due diligence by providing experienced resources to respond to investor inquiry.
Portfolio Company Due Diligence
Deliver structured cybersecurity compliance programs to private equity and venture capital portfolio companies
- End-to-end cybersecurity program deployment for portfolio companies, including policy development
- Continuous endpoint monitoring and vulnerability management, providing sponsors with real-time visibility into portfolio company cyber posture
- Scalable sponsor-purchased model designed for fund managers seeking to standardize cybersecurity compliance across their portfolio at time of acquisition or launch
- Board-ready reporting and examination preparation support, equipping portfolio companies to respond to investor and regulatory due diligence requests with confidence
Sustainability Due Diligence and Investor Support
Anticipate and respond to investor inquiries
- Create responses to investor ESG due diligence questionnaires
- Prepare and review ESG-related marketing material data and content
- Report on ESG-related efforts and focus areas in marketing and investor communications
- Develop regular ESG reporting for the firm’s use with LPs (e.g., annual ESG report, annual general meeting report, etc.)
Due Diligence Response
Provide standard Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs) and resources to respond to custom DDQs
- Comprehensive DDQ that reflects a firm’s processes and documents, meets investor transparency demands and withstands regulatory scrutiny
- Timely responses to custom investor DDQs
- Proactive updating of standard DDQ
Mock Due Diligence Review
Simulate rigorous institutional investor due diligence
- Assess firm against investor expectations to identify and obviate red flags
- “Hot seat” key personnel so they are confident, consistent and on point during investor diligence interviews
- Prepare firm service providers for investor inquiries
- Suggest remedies ranging from crisper investment performance explanations to operational changes
Ready to learn more?
Contact Nick to learn more about Silver and our Compliance Services
Nick Nunez
Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer & Head of Regulatory Compliance
- 646-838-1687
- [email protected]
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