Growth, M&A, and IPO Readiness

Major corporate events expose security and risk gaps that day-to-day operations never surface. Due diligence teams, underwriters, and acquirers look harder, and ask different questions, than internal audit ever does.

KASP’s Growth, M&A and IPO Readiness work prepares organisations for that scrutiny before it arrives. For acquirers, we assess the target’s security posture and risk exposure to inform valuation and integration planning. For companies being acquired or preparing to list, we help close the gaps that would otherwise surface during buyer or underwriter due diligence, from governance and data protection maturity to incident history and third-party risk.

Because our advisors have operated as CISOs inside organisations going through exactly these transitions, we know which findings actually stall a deal or spook an underwriter, and which are noise. We prioritise accordingly, giving leadership a realistic view of what must be fixed now versus what can be addressed post-close.

This work typically runs alongside legal and financial due diligence, timed to the deal or listing calendar rather than a standard assessment cycle.