Streamlining the Merger and Acquisition Process

Acquiring companies using Black Duck’s Software IP Assessment Service for due diligence find that obtaining knowledge about open source components before a transaction reduces business risk and speeds time to market. Acquisition targets, on the other hand, find that the service can improve their bargaining position and ultimately expedite the transaction.

Using Black Duck’s Software IP Assessment Service benefits the merger and acquisition process because it:

• Enables open source and third party code analysis to be performed before rather than after an acquisition transaction is concluded;
• Provides more thorough and accurate results;
• Shortens the time needed to perform technical due diligence, thus speeding the transaction;
• Allows rapid deployment of the right resources to perform required modifications before, or immediately after a transaction closes;
• Reveals the open source and certain third party constituents within the code, preventing unpleasant “surprises” in the future; and
• Speeds the time to market and revenue generation for newly acquired software products.

For more information, please download the Software IP Assessment Service’s brochure.