Forensic Real Estate Due Diligence, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Independent forensic examination of real estate and business-opportunity transactions, before they close and after they have closed. And when a transaction is contested or deadlocked, the negotiation and conflict resolution that moves it. For consulting and accounting firms, law firms, institutional investors, and the principals, families, and fiduciaries who own complex assets.
Mission
Meridian's mission is to ensure that consultants, accountants, attorneys, investors, and the principals, families, and fiduciaries who own complex assets have a complete, accurate, and unvarnished reading of every component of a transaction, and a clear path through the ones that are stuck.
Four reasons to retain us
Discretion
Independent practice. No panel commitments. Possible conflicts checked before any further conversation. The matter, the parties, and the engagement are never discussed outside the work.
A Second Set of Eyes
Senior eyes on every file. The principal does the work, conducts the review, stands behind the findings, and signs the deliverable.
Commercial Real Estate Expertise
California Real Estate Broker License. Regional market fluency. The transactional command to read a real estate or business-opportunity transaction at depth. The differentiator few internal forensic teams can match.
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
When a transaction is contested, deadlocked, or frozen, we find the structural issues and the leverage most parties never see, and we negotiate it to an outcome. A discipline in its own right, not a sideline.
When we are retained
This is the timing of the work, three points on one transaction. It is distinct from the four reasons above, which are why a client chooses us.
Most of our work comes after a transaction has closed and a question has surfaced: a forensic reconstruction for a dispute, an audit, a restatement, or litigation. What was knowable before signing, what was disclosed, and who carried the duty. We also examine live transactions before anyone commits. And we are brought in when a deal is alive and stuck, when ownership is fractured or co-owners are deadlocked, to negotiate the conflict to a resolution.
The combination no single firm holds: a broker's command of the transaction, a forensic examiner's discipline, a negotiator's instinct for leverage, and a flat fee that makes our independence a matter of arithmetic, not a promise. A Big 4 forensic team has not sat in the broker's chair. A litigator has not either. A commission broker cannot call itself impartial.