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Due Diligence: A Practical Guide

Due Diligence: A Practical Guide

Author: Vanessa Williams
Publisher: LexisNexis U.K.
ISBN: 9781846611322
Published In: December 2008
Format: Hardback + CD-ROM , 238 pages
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Solicitors working on mergers and acquisitions, management buy outs/buy ins and other corporate finance transactions have to undertake due diligence as a core part of their workload, yet practical guidance for lawyers is difficult to come by.

Due Diligence: A Practical Guide aims to meet this need by providing a step-by-step manual of the complete due diligence process from start to finish. It brings together simpler transactional guidance with trouble shooting, potential pitfalls, points of concern and precedents to provide everything that the company and commercial lawyer needs in a single handbook. This is complemented with helpful checklists, diagrams and practice notes with tips and traps highlighted.

The know how is supplemented with a wealth of fully annotated precedents, team sheets, questionnaires and reports. All of these are included on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing them to be placed directly on client files, and giving users a ready made practice toolkit.

Introduction

The Due Diligence Process

Reviewing the Information

Sample Documents and Explanatory Notes

General explanatory notes
Parties List
Confidentiality Agreement
Due Diligence Questionnaire (Share Purchase)
Due Diligence Questionnaire (Asset Purchase)
Data Room Rules
Virtual Data Room Rules
Disclosure Letter
Disclosure Bundle Index
Legal Due Diligence Report

Vanessa Williams, Partner, Bates Wells & Braithwaite LLP

"Though many legal and financial services firms may provide new entrants with their own templates for engagement with due diligence, it is still advantageous to have a copy of this user-friendly transactional guidance ... it is the early practitioners who carry out the due diligence exercise which can make or break the success of the transactions and they would need all the help they can find ... a well-written operating manual"
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