Transactional Services

Identifying issues before they arise

With our cross-disciplinary team, we gather, examine and analyze all available information and on-site inspection findings to give you an overall view of the current and projected performance of an asset or business, allowing you to make value-adding investment decisions.

Through our transactional services, we assist banks, financial institutions, law firms, and asset owners in making their investment decisions. Axess provides initial and final reports and carry out follow-up activities as needed such as construction and operations monitoring.

Why choose Axess as your partner

We provide prospective investors with an improved understanding of assets through:

Building on existing Axess Group’s expertise and values
Leveraging our multi-discipline team of consultants
Fast and flexible response

Availability of cutting-edge capabilities
Optimizing opportunities and value creation 
Reducing or mitigating risks with innovative solutions

Technical Due Diligence

The overall objective of Technical Due Diligence is to provide clients with a qualitative evaluation of Technical risks associated with an asset such as Execution Strategy, Design, Rules and Regulations, Operations Philosophy, Equipment, and more generally, overall condition. An opinion of the overall adequacy of an asset for intended purpose/operation is typically included.

A Technical Due Diligence exercise aims to disclose risks in order to enable transaction parties to manage risks to their business objectives posed by project risks such as cost overruns, delays as well as technical and operational performance in the operations phase. Risks can be significantly reduced by highlighting important facts and provide advice on importance.

Our full range of Technical Due Diligence services aims to translate unclear dependencies into quantifiable items e.g. in the form of a risk matrix/register:

Commercial Due Diligence

The overall objective of a Commercial Due Diligence (CDD) is to scrutinize a company/assets commercial attractiveness and provide a full overview of the internal/external environment. This may typically be prior to an investment decision.

A CDD from Axess will provide a thorough understanding of a company/assets ability to meet its forecasted results including the effect of the external landscape in which it operates/will operate in. Both the competitive landscape and market share will be taken into consideration. Based on this, an informed decision on whether to proceed or walk-away can be made.

Owner’s Engineer

Provides the prospective owner/buyer with an improved understanding of technical issues allowing informed decisions to be made – prior to e.g. an investment decision. In this role, we may look into and opine on items such as:

Design
Main Project Participants
Risk Register
Project team
Contracts
Project Schedule
Budget (CAPEX) including contingencies
Market
Economic Robustness
Operations Philosophy
Operations Budget (OPEX)
Rules, Regulations, and Class

Lender’s Engineer

Acting as Lenders Engineer, Axess will protect the interests of a lender for example that HSE requirements are adhered to or that quality of workmanship is in accordance with specifications. This involvement may range from following up the construction of a single piece of equipment to a complete system/ structure. Also, elements such as cost, schedule project team composition etc. would typically be included. Lenders Engineer role typically extends for a longer duration, through engineering, construction, and commissioning.

Construction Monitoring

Making sure that construction is progressing as intended is key to meeting project objectives, successful hand-over, and final acceptance. Both time, cost and quality must be monitored over time to make sure that no issue is allowed to develop into some serious issue.

During construction monitoring reports are typically issued regularly to clients for example related to key project milestones, monthly/ bi-monthly or any other format.