Daily Due Diligence
Practical due diligence thinking for sponsors, lenders, operators, and advisors facing high-stakes decisions.
What Daily Due Diligence Is
Daily Due Diligence is the editorial publication of Sheepdog Prosperity Partners.
It is built for sponsors, lenders, operators, family offices, search funds, and advisors who need sharper thinking around diligence, underwriting, transaction risk, and decision quality.
We focus on the mechanics that matter: cash flow, collateral, control, evidence, legal structure, operational fragility, and the red flags that change how a deal should be priced, paused, restructured, or declined.
Daily Due Diligence is where SPP publishes practical frameworks, observations, and decision-oriented analysis drawn from the real mechanics of diligence work. The goal is not volume. The goal is sharper judgment before capital, time, or reputation is committed.
Who It Is For
- Sponsors
- Lenders
- Operators
- Family offices
- Search funds
- Asset managers
- Counsel and transaction stakeholders
What We Cover
Earnings quality
Working capital and net debt
Receivables and borrowing base diligence
Servicer and operational risk
Fraud and red-flag analysis
Specialty / esoteric asset diligence
Latest Insights
June 16, 2026
Forced Divestiture vs. Forfeiture: A Comparative Anatomy
The national-security stack has more than one remedy. That sounds obvious until a deal team starts using one word for all of them.
June 14, 2026
The Integrated National-Security Diligence Workflow
The buyer does not experience national-security diligence as six clean legal silos. The buyer experiences it as a messy deal room.
June 13, 2026
The Whistleblower and Bounty Bridge: Where National-Security Diligence Meets Qui Tam
A buyer can treat a national-security diligence issue as a compliance problem, a pricing problem, or a closing-condition problem. The government may see...
June 12, 2026
Asset Seizure and Forfeiture: The Sharpest Enforcement Spine
Forfeiture is where a paper diligence issue can become a property problem. A target may have a sanctioned customer, a corrupt founder, a foreign...
June 11, 2026
The DOJ Data Security Program: Data as a National-Security Asset
A target can look ordinary on the income statement and still carry the kind of asset the national-security agencies care about most: a database. Not a...
June 10, 2026
The BSA/AML Perimeter: FinCEN’s New Frontiers
The money in a deal tells a second story. The first story is the one the seller wants to tell: revenue, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes,...
June 9, 2026
Export Controls: BIS/EAR, ITAR, and the Technology Screen
A buyer can acquire a company and discover, after the closing dinner, that the most valuable thing it bought cannot lawfully leave the building. Not...
June 9, 2026
The FCA Diligence Checklist for Government-Payment Targets
If your target bills Medicare, Medicaid, a federal contract, or a federal grant, the False Claims Act (FCA) is a diligence category of its own, because...
June 8, 2026
OFAC Sanctions: The Money Screen and Sanctions as the New FCPA
A buyer can close a clean-looking deal and still buy a sanctions problem. The target's products may be ordinary, the customers may be commercial, and the...
June 8, 2026
The Sealed-Case Blind Spot: Why Standard Diligence Can Miss a Live Whistleblower Suit
Here is the scenario that should worry any buyer of a government-paid business. The target looks clean. The data room is complete. Litigation search...
June 7, 2026
Outbound Investment Security: The Reverse CFIUS
For nearly four decades the United States built an elaborate machine for inspecting foreign money on its way into the country. The Committee on Foreign...
June 7, 2026
Don’t Inherit the Fraud: False Claims Act Exposure as an M&A Deal-Killer
Every buyer understands they are acquiring a company's assets and contracts. Fewer internalize that they are also acquiring its past conduct. When the...
Frameworks & Tools
The Sheepdog DD Framework
Coming soon
Receivables and Borrowing Base Review Template
Coming soon
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