Legal Due Diligence
Acquiring a business, its shares or its assets can open new opportunities — but it can also carry hidden liabilities. A prudent investor manages that risk by carrying out legal due diligence before committing.
Legal due diligence is an essential part of corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and securities offerings. It gives an investor or acquirer the information needed to assess the financial, structural and operational position of the target before signing.
What due diligence achieves
A thorough legal due diligence allows you to:
- understand the target company or assets and how they operate;
- decide whether to proceed, walk away, or ring-fence and limit identified risks through warranties, indemnities or a price adjustment;
- identify obstacles to closing — for example restrictions in constitutional documents, contracts or applicable law;
- build appropriate protections into the transaction documents.
What we review
Depending on the target, this may include constitutional documents, statutory registers, officer/employee documentation, records of assets and liabilities, material contracts, litigation, real estate, regulatory permits and intellectual property.
How we help
We conduct legal due diligence on behalf of purchasers and investors and deliver a clear, prioritised report that distinguishes deal-breakers from manageable risks — and we feed the findings directly into the transaction documents and M&A process.