Management interviews
Long, detailed sessions with the target's leadership, often technical and often uncomfortable. Consecutive or simultaneous, depending on the number of participants and the pace required.
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Due diligence & M&AIn diligence, the language risk is the deal risk.
A management interview mis-rendered, a defined term translated two ways, an annex nobody read in the other language — cross-border transactions rarely fail on the language work, but they are delayed by it more often than anyone admits. This is the workstream STIB is hired to remove.
Workstreams
Where language enters a transaction
Data-room Q&A
Rounds of questions and answers where the same terms recur for weeks. Consistency across the whole process matters more than elegance in any single answer.
Site and plant visits
Mobile escort interpreting through facilities, where operational vocabulary and safety instructions are both in play.
Document translation
Contracts, licences, regulatory filings, labour and tax documentation — translated by named linguists under NDA, with a glossary that the interpreters also use.
Negotiation and signing
The sessions where the terms are settled, and where an interpreter who has followed the whole process is worth more than a fresh one.
Post-closing integration
Town halls, policy roll-outs and management meetings in the months after signing, when two organisations still speak two languages.
The principle
Say it the way it is written
One principle governs the whole engagement, and it is the reason to keep interpreting and translation with the same firm:
One glossary, every workstream
A defined term in the share purchase agreement, the same term in the data-room answer, and the same term in the room when the CFO is asked about it. When translation and interpreting are split between vendors, this is exactly what breaks.
One confidentiality perimeter
Named linguists, one NDA, material shared only with the people working the transaction. Not a rotating cast of freelancers hired session by session.
Process
How a diligence engagement is run
NDA before anything
Signed before the first document or the first call. STIB signs the client's own agreement when required.
Glossary build
Defined terms extracted from the transaction documents and agreed with counsel before the sessions start.
Session coverage
Interpreters assigned consistently across interviews, Q&A rounds and site visits, so context accumulates instead of resetting.
Document delivery
Translations delivered against the same glossary, by named linguists, on the transaction's timetable.
Straight answers
Questions we are asked about this assignment
Do you sign an NDA before receiving transaction documents?
Yes. A non-disclosure agreement is signed before any material is shared, and STIB signs the client's own NDA when required. Documents are handled by named linguists and shared only with the people working on that transaction.
Can the same interpreter cover the whole diligence process?
Yes, and it is the recommended arrangement. An interpreter who has followed the earlier interviews already knows the deal structure, the defined terms and the people, which makes later sessions faster and reduces the risk of a term being rendered inconsistently.
How do you keep terminology consistent between documents and meetings?
A glossary of defined terms is built from the transaction documents and agreed with counsel before the sessions begin, and both the translators and the interpreters work from it. Keeping translation and interpreting with one provider is what makes that possible.
What interpreting mode is used for management interviews?
Consecutive interpreting is common for small interview settings, because it allows precision and note-taking, though it roughly doubles the clock time. Simultaneous is used when the group is larger or the schedule is tight, and requires two interpreters per language for sessions over about an hour.
Can you handle regulatory filings and certified translation?
Yes. STIB provides certified and professional translation of contracts, regulatory filings and corporate documentation. It does not currently offer legally sworn translation (Tradução Juramentada) in Brazil; if a document requires that specific legal certification, tell us and we will advise on next steps.
Do you cover diligence sessions held outside Brazil?
Yes. On-site coverage is available in Brazil and, in the United States, in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, where STIB has interpreters and equipment on the ground. Sessions anywhere else are covered remotely or by an interpreter travelling with the deal team.
Tell us about the assignment.
Dates, city, languages and the kind of room you will be in. You get the interpreter profile, the setup each session needs and a scoped proposal.