Services

Financial Services

DLA’s clients include some of the most prestigious private equity firms, hedge funds, lenders, banks, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisers in the world. Our Team has years of experience in providing financial services firms with specialized services, and can support your firm every step of the way, with the following service offerings:

  • Pre-merger readiness/fit assessment
  • Operational and financial Due Diligence
  • Strategic Optimization, focusing on people, process and technology to assess, design and implement efficient and effective back, mid and front office
  • Policies, Processes, Organizational structures, and Technology solutions
  • Workout & Restructuring Services, including Balance Sheet Organization, Real Estate Asset Management, Real Estate Loan Workouts and Restructuring
  • Cost Management, aligning company spend with strategic goals
  • Outsourced or co-sourced internal audit and SOX
  • Valuation services, Investment Valuation Process assessment/design and Investment Valuation Audits
  • Forensic Accounting Services - Partner and Joint Venture Disputes, Regulatory Investigations, Stakeholder Challenges
  • Business continuity planning and implementation

Select Client Engagements

  • Performed back, mid and front office function assessment, addressing processes, organization, staffing model, technology and systems for a 2 Billion+ Private Equity Fund – Services included evaluation to leading practices, creation of recommendations for improvement, redesigned work flow and procedures, establishment of a multi-step implementation plan for improvement, and enhanced accounting and investment reporting systems
  • Reviewed, documented and assessed valuation processes by addressing valuation policies, procedures and controls for a $35 Billion Asset Based Investment Management Firm –  Services included testing valuations for appropriateness and adherence to existing policies and procedures, recommendations for improvement and a high-level implementation plan
  • Performed financial and operational due diligence of a potential target for acquisition for a privately held Private Equity Firm – Services included quality of earnings and revenues, quality of balance sheet, analysis of customer base, review of targets budgets and projections, review of targets current business processes, procedures and technology infrastructure, assessment of potential departmental carve-outs, and current organizational assessment of target and its capacity to handle increase of business