KPMG — Deal Advisory / Financial Due Diligence

Financial due diligence advisory firmStrategy AdvisoryFinancial Due DiligenceSpecialist

Overview

KPMG’s deal advisory practice includes a well-established financial due diligence offering that supports private equity firms, corporate acquirers, lenders, infrastructure investors, and financial stakeholders across transaction processes. The firm provides analysis of earnings quality, working capital, cash flow, debt-like items, financial projections, historical trends, and transaction risks.

KPMG’s financial due diligence teams are especially relevant in large and mid-market transactions where clients need structured reporting, disciplined financial analysis, clear issue identification, and cross-border coordination under tight deal timelines. Its global footprint allows the firm to coordinate diligence work across multiple jurisdictions, sectors, and transaction structures.

Principal activities

Quality of earnings

Earnings normalization, working-capital analysis and cash-flow review.

Transaction diligence

Buy-side and sell-side financial diligence and deal-risk assessment.

Deal accounting

Purchase-agreement support, carve-out analysis and post-deal financial matters.

Typical clients: Corporations, boards, chief executives, private-equity sponsors, investors, business-unit leaders and senior functional teams.
Engagement context: Corporate planning, transactions, leadership decisions, workforce change, governance, valuation, diligence and strategic transformation.

KPMG — Deal Advisory / Financial Due Diligence operates where organizations must evaluate strategic choices, transactions, leadership priorities, organizational capabilities or financial judgments. Engagement scope varies by mandate, sector, geography and decision timetable. View the firm’s website ↗

Sector and mandate coverage

Sector coverage

Private equity
Industrials
Technology
Healthcare
Consumer markets
Business services

Mandate types

Buy-side diligence
Sell-side diligence
Quality of earnings
Working capital
Carve-out diligence
Deal accounting

The precise role depends on the client’s objectives, competitive environment, transaction context, organizational maturity, available internal resources and decision timetable. Assignments may combine research, analytics, executive advice, technology, implementation and change support.

Market position

KPMG — Deal Advisory / Financial Due Diligence is positioned as a financial due diligence advisory firm. Its relevance reflects the combination of specialist capability, institutional experience and practical involvement in consequential strategic or corporate decisions.

Distinctive focus: KPMG’s financial due diligence teams are especially relevant in large and mid-market transactions where clients need structured reporting, disciplined financial analysis, clear issue identification, and cross-border coordination under tight deal timelines.

Competitive context

KPMG — Deal Advisory / Financial Due Diligence competes with specialist strategy advisers, executive-services firms, transaction advisers, analytics providers and larger multidisciplinary professional-services firms. The relevant peer set varies by mandate, industry, client segment, geographic scope and delivery model.

Selected comparable firms

Deloitte — Transaction Services / Financial Due Diligence EY — Strategy & Transactions / Financial Due Diligence PwC — Deals / Transaction Services / Financial Due Diligence Alvarez & Marsal — Global Transaction Advisory Group Accuracy

Comparative positioning

Transaction financial analysis and deal-accounting diligenceBuy-side diligenceSell-side diligenceQuality of earningsImplementation-focusedEnterprise clients

Comparable firms are selected according to overlap in business model, client segment, service coverage, geographic activity and mandate profile. Inclusion does not imply an exhaustive competitor set or an equivalence in scale, ranking or market position.

Leadership

Person	Current position	Institutional background
N/A	Senior leadership	Current leadership was not consistently identified in the public sources reviewed.

Leadership information reflects the roles available in the public sources reviewed on 20 August 2026. View the firm’s website ↗

Corporate and regulatory information

KPMG — Deal Advisory / Financial Due Diligence provides advisory, executive, analytical, transaction, managed or technology services. The contracting entity, professional obligations and regulatory status depend on the service, client jurisdiction and engagement scope.

View registered-entity details

Principal entity	N/A
Service status	Advisory, executive, analytical, transaction or technology services
Registration identifier	N/A
Headquarters	Amstelveen, Netherlands
Primary jurisdiction	N/A

Principal offices

Amstelveen, Netherlands

Rankings and recognition

2026

Top 20 Financial Due Diligence (FDD) Advisory 2026
Advisory Ranking

Tier I

Ranking inclusion is editorially determined. The existence or maintenance of a Wiki profile does not influence ranking eligibility, tier or position.

Related institutions and subjects

Related institutionN/A

Related subjects

Financial Due DiligenceTransaction financial analysis and deal-accounting diligence

Sources and data transparency

The following sources were accessed on 20 August 2026:

KPMG — Deal Advisory / Financial Due Diligence — official firm overview and service information.
Advisory Ranking — Top 20 Financial Due Diligence (FDD) Advisory 2026 inclusion and tier classification.

Profile type: Editorial Profile

First published: 20 August 2026

Last substantively reviewed: 20 August 2026

This profile has been compiled from publicly available institutional, regulatory and editorial sources. The profiled organization does not determine its inclusion, editorial characterization or ranking status. Corrections supported by authoritative documentation may be submitted to The Economy Wiki.