[Yeonlin Leonard Lee]

While bigger companies/group has its own M&A/DD team, small companies tend to just gather their own staffs to do all the necessaries and sometimes do not engage 3rd party consultants, despite having deeper knowledge of the industry, can in-house people perform a better or equivalent job as an 3rd party consultant where its expertise is on acquisition and not on the industry?

[Ksenia Sukholovskaya]

I believe each case is individual and requires a balanced solution. It depends on the size of the deal, on expertise (strategic vs. financial buyer), and the readiness of the team to perform the DD. The helping method is to develop a checklist with all the criteria and comprehensively assess the situation.

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