Legal Due Diligence · glossary

Clean team

A small group, often outside advisers only, allowed to see a data room's most sensitive papers, such as customer prices. It reports conclusions to the buyer, not the papers themselves. A data room uses one when buyer and target compete, because competition law limits what rivals may share before completion. Chapter 4

Explained in Chapter 4, The Data Room and the Q&A, of Legal Due Diligence.

The main page for this term is Clean team, in M&A Foundations.

Chapter 1 and this glossary are open to everyone; the whole edition is free to read with a free account until 31 January, and it stays open to an account opened by then.

Related terms

Where this term lives

This term is part of one complete fictional deal, with every document attached and a test after every chapter. Open Legal Due Diligence → · All terms A–Z →