Automated codebase scans
Every target's codebase scanned automatically — objective, comparable coverage of the whole estate, with no reliance on the target's self-assessment or cherry-picked demos.
Case study · Life sciences Global M&A technical authority,
Global M&A technical authority,
S&P 100 industrial & life sciences group.
Primary technical decision-maker for global M&A inside an S&P 100 group with a long record of acquisitions and separations — delivering fast, objective, evidence-based reads on targets before the price was set.
GlobalM&A technical authority
S&P 100Industrial & life sciences group
AutomatedCodebase scanning
Delivered by ICAN’s leadership in prior engagements and senior roles.
The challenge
Price the technology before you sign for it.
Inside a group of S&P 100 scale, acquisitions arrive continuously — and every deal is priced on what can be seen. The technology risks that actually destroy value live elsewhere: unreviewed code, undocumented dependencies, open-source licence exposure and disaster-recovery gaps no data room will show you.
The role: serve as the primary technical decision-maker for global M&A — the single technical authority whose read on a target reached the deal team before the price was set.
What was actually done
Evidence, not questionnaires.
DevSecOps assessment
The target's security and delivery posture read from how it actually builds and ships — vulnerability exposure and engineering maturity, scored on evidence.
Cloud-readiness scoring
Each estate scored for what integration would actually cost — how far the technology was from where the deal model assumed it already was.
Open-source & DR exposure
Licence obligations that can poison proprietary claims, and disaster-recovery practices tested against what the paperwork promised.
Fast, objective, evidence-based reads before the price was set — a risk profile the deal team could price, not a hedge-everything memo.
What it demonstrates
We’ve run the function our clients are trying to staff.
Serving as primary technical authority for global M&A inside a company of S&P 100 scale is not advisory experience — it is the buy-side technology function itself, run from the inside, across a long record of acquisitions and separations. That is the seat ICAN's M&A advisory clients are trying to fill when a deal lands on their desk.
Before you sign
Assessing a target?
Tell us about the deal. We'll come back with a clear, evidence-based view of the technology risk — before the price is set, not after.