Collateral Examination Services

Cherry Bekaert’s Collateral Examinations team helps validate a borrower’s collateral position, their capabilities to meet reporting requirements, and protect your institution from losses.

Confidence That Lending Is Done Right

Cherry Bekaert’s Collateral Examinations team provides confidence in a borrower’s collateral and reporting requirements, guiding commercial lenders through detailed examinations that consider both the lender and the borrower. Your concerns and perspectives are our top priorities when structuring a deal to all parties’ satisfaction.

Having successfully performed thousands of examinations across various industries over the past 30 years, our experienced Collateral Examinations practice is dedicated to conducting collateral monitoring and field examination engagements. Our team consists of former bank lending executives and experienced asset-based lending (ABL) examiners who work with your preexisting exam plans or develop tailored solutions to fit your institution’s unique needs.

With our help to confirm the borrower’s collateral position, capabilities and limitations, you can close deals with confidence.

Offering More Than Just Basic Lending Support

Our goal is to perform effective collateral examinations to help you make smarter credit decisions and improve your risk profiles. We efficiently conduct due diligence and summarize collateral issues for the lender through the following:

Pre-funding Examinations
Accounts Receivable Evaluations & Analyses
Inventory Counts & Eligibility Analyses
Federal Government Contract Lending & Contract Review
Written Verification Letters
Workouts & Liquidations
Collateral Monitoring – Accounts Receivable & Inventory
Fraud & Forensic Examinations
Recurring Field Examinations
Takedown Examinations
System Evaluations

Support Extending Beyond Collateral Exams

When your activities extend far beyond lending, our Transaction Advisory team offers a deep reserve of specialized talent to meet you where you are.

Providing Collateral Examination Services to the Following Industries

Our Collateral Examinations Team is Available and Accessible

We have seasoned personnel located across the country for on-site diligence, test counts and other activities, so that we can meet you where you are and get you to where you need to be.

Hands-on Support Team

Dedicated primary points of contact to provide rapid response
Coast-to-coast Reach

Wide array of services and capabilities available to serve clients nationwide
Full Suite of Service Offerings

Forensic accounting, business valuations and transaction advisory services to assist in addition to traditional audit and tax services

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