M&A CLAIMS DILIGENCE

Price the claims risk before you agree the price.

Every public claim the target makes, ruled against FDA, FTC and Health Canada rules and marketplace policy, sized by fix cost, and delivered in a signed exhibit in five business days. A quality-of-earnings review never touches them.

Copy written three owners ago can take a target’s revenue off sale. Claims liability survives closing. Find it while it can still move the number.

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From $17,500, scoped up front48-hour rush, quoted on requestPre-LOI safe, public copy only
Claims exhibit · Target A
Sleep and stress · 14 SKUs · Amazon US, DTC, Meta
SAMPLE DATA
Takedown triggers
4
Fix-then-pass
19
Category rank
#22 / 402
Every fix, sized by what it takes
Copy edit
15
Label reprint
6
Product rename
2
Pharmacist signed · dated before LOISee the sample report →
5 Business days to exhibit48-hour rush available
WHY IT’S A LINE ITEM

The exposure no other diligence reviews.

A QoE looks at revenue. Legal diligence looks at contracts. The claims on the listing sit in neither.

Price the risk before you sign. In 15 seconds: the target’s public claims ruled against published standards and rated by platform, as one exhibit for the deal.
QUALITY OF EARNINGS
Revenue

Tests the numbers. Never reads the listing that produces them.

LEGAL DILIGENCE
Contracts

Reads the agreements. The claims on the page sit outside them.

CLAIMS DILIGENCE
Every public claim

Listings, site, ads and labels, ruled against 109 published standards and signed.

$53,088
It shows up nowhere else.

The FTC penalty ceiling per violation for an unsupported “clinically proven” on the hero SKU, and it transfers at closing. In April 2023 the FTC warned almost 700 marketing companies that they could face civil penalties if they cannot back up their product claims.

31 Mar 2026
Amazon suppresses listings over copy.

Trade press reported Amazon began requiring detail-page content to match the Supplement Facts panel, enforced automatically. Its published Restricted Products rules already allow suppression without notice.

Pre-close
Timing decides who carries it.

Found in diligence, the findings are in front of both sides before the price is fixed. Found after closing, they sit with the buyer.

Plaintiffs read the same copy your buyers do, and quote it back as the exhibit.

THE EXHIBIT

One exhibit that can move the price.

Every public claim the target makes, ruled and rated by severity, with every fix written and sized by what it takes. A redacted sample report is public, and the diligence exhibit format is available before you commit.

From, scoped up front
$17,500
Five business days
48-hour rush
On request
Same scope, same signature
It cannot be produced after signing

A claims exhibit dated after closing is not diligence, it is an explanation. It is worth having because it exists before the price is agreed, the only window in which a finding can still move the price.

What did the buyer do to check?

If a marketplace or regulator acts on the target’s copy after close, your side gets asked what was done to check it, and by whom. A dated exhibit signed by a licensed pharmacist answers that. A warranty from the seller does not.

The fee does not move with the findings

Fixed once scope is agreed, whether the target comes back clean or badly exposed. Nobody here is paid more for a worse result, which is the first thing a seller’s counsel asks about whoever produced the exhibit.

In scope for every target
  1. 01
    Every SKU and every channel

    Amazon listings (backend keywords included), DTC site, ad library creative, labels and inserts.

  2. 02
    Past claims, not just live copy

    Earlier versions of a listing where our database captured them, cross-referenced against published FDA warning letters and FTC actions.

  3. 03
    Every finding rated and sized

    By the fix it needs (a copy edit, a label reprint or a rename), and marked as a takedown trigger or fix-then-pass.

  4. 04
    A rank in the category, not an anecdote

    The target’s full SKU set scored against the best-selling set in its categories.

  5. 05
    Checked against the brand’s own records

    Each product’s label record with the NIH, and its Health Canada licence where one is supplied. Pharmacist-signed, statute-cited, a standalone exhibit your deal team can forward.

What this exhibit does not do is promise that no platform or regulator ever acts on the target’s copy. Nobody can promise that. It records which claims were reviewed, against which published standards, on what date, and by whom. That is what a diligence file is for.

BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE

Buyers use it to negotiate. Sellers use it to defend the price.

The same review, run by whoever gets there first.

BUY-SIDE
PE platforms, aggregators, strategics

A per-target report before the LOI firms up, or a portfolio sweep across existing holdings. Your dashboard shows the portfolio product by product, each ranked against every top-selling listing in its category with every fix counted by what it takes, for your IC to weigh against the price.

SELL-SIDE
Founders and brokers

A clean claims file before the data room opens: the review a buy-side team would run, run first, with every finding rewritten to the rules before the file goes out. A brand that passes also qualifies for the verified register, a third-party reference an acquirer can check from the data room.

Brokers and bankers: we work referral terms, ask.

HOW IT RUNS

Pre-LOI safe, machine-fast, human-signed.

Five days works because the sweep is machine-run, with every finding reviewed and signed by a licensed pharmacist.

DAY 0
Target list confirmed

Mutual NDA signed if you want one. We work entirely from public copy with no seller cooperation, so the review can run pre-LOI without tipping the process.

DAYS 1 TO 4
The sweep runs

The same system behind 244,000+ phrase checks reads every target surface, and a licensed pharmacist reviews every finding that reaches the exhibit and signs it.

DAY 5
The signed exhibit lands

Or at hour 48 on rush: the signed report, your dashboard with the portfolio view product by product, and a working session with your deal team.

POST-CLOSE
Monitoring continues

Monthly re-scans of every acquired surface, an alert within 48 hours of a new Critical finding, and a dated changelog of what changed and when.

SCOPE A REVIEW

Know what the claims can cost before the LOI firms up.

Send the target category and SKU count. Email audit@claimsverified.org with the subject “Diligence”. We reply within one business day.

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Review of marketing language only, not product testing, formulation, facility compliance, financial or legal advice. Findings are our opinion under the published Claims Verified standards.

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