Mergers & Acquisitions
Vendor Due Diligence Checklist: Preparing a Family Company for Sale
What a family-owned business should fix, document and disclose before inviting buyers in, and how a CFO can run vendor diligence on the owner's timetable. The report sets out the considerations and practical implications discussed in the article.
- Format
- PDF · 15 pages
- Published
- Published Oct 2026
- Article
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What's inside
- 01Capital is abundant, but buyers reward certainty over potential
- 02Most sales fail on readiness, not on the headline price
- 03Family companies document their numbers more thoroughly than their intentions
- 04A vendor due diligence checklist should cover eight workstreams, not only the accounts
- 05Owner-dependent and related-party items are where family companies leak value