Legal Due Diligence · glossary
The buyer's investigation of a company before it agrees to buy it. Its lawyers read the documents, ask the seller questions and search public registers. What they find can change the price, the contract or the decision to buy. Chapter 1
Explained in Chapter 1, What Due Diligence Is For, of Legal Due Diligence.
Also explained in M&A Foundations.
Before a company buys another, its lawyers read that company's documents, ask the seller questions and search public registers. That investigation is due diligence, or DD, and its report can change the deal before it is signed. This workbook follows one review on one deal. You are a junior lawyer at Blackwood & Steel LLP, the law firm acting for the buyer.Read Chapter 1, What Due Diligence Is For →
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