08 · Corporate · Cross-border
Mergers and acquisitions
What assistance changes in this practice, what it does not change, and the time reduction actually observed.
Where the gain is real
Documentary due diligence, contract review against the client playbook, corpus consistency.
Where it is slight or nil
Price and warranty negotiation, signing session.
Observed time
−61% at constant case scope, on cases closed over the last three financial years. This measure says nothing about the quality of the outcome.
What the practice covers
- Documentary due diligence across the whole data room
- Contract review against the client playbook
- Extraction of change-of-control clauses and of undertakings given
- Consistency of the corpus: share purchase agreement, disclosure letter, schedules
- Tracking of conditions precedent through to completion
- Assembly of the warranty and indemnity file