The Hidden Liabilities In Maritime Acquisitions

What Buyers, Sellers and Investors Often Miss During Due Diligence By Sabrina Brigance, CMIP, Managing Director, Marine Practice, Hylant

Maritime mergers and acquisitions can create significant opportunities for growth. Private equity firms, strategic buyers and marine operators may pursue acquisitions to expand capabilities, add assets, enter new markets and strengthen their position across the maritime industry.

But buying a marine business is not the same as buying a traditional operating company. Marine organizations combine vessels and waterfront assets with specialized labor, complex contracts, environmental exposures, regulatory requirements and increasingly connected technology. Those operating realities can materially affect the economics of an otherwise attractive transaction and are among the critical considerations explored in Hylant’s Maritime M&A Risk Guide.

Financial diligence tells a buyer what a company earns. Marine risk diligence should help determine whether the assets and operations behind those earnings can sustain them.

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