Legal Due Diligence · glossary
The buyer's list of the documents it wants, workstream by workstream, written before the data room opens. It tells the seller what to collect, and it becomes the measure for spotting what never arrives. Chapter 5
Explained in Chapter 5, The Request List and the Review, of Legal Due Diligence.
A review starts with asking, not reading. Before the data room opens, the buyer's lawyers turn the agreed scope into a request list. It lists the documents and information they want the seller to produce, workstream by workstream. On Sunrise it asked for the largest customer contracts, three years of letters from regulators and the contracts of senior staff, among much else.Read Chapter 5, The Request List and the Review →
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