Practice area · 5 editions
Buying and selling companies, investigating them first, investing in them, and writing the rules their owners live by.
Most junior transactional lawyers start in corporate. The first months arrive in pieces: a disclosure letter to check, board minutes to draft, a data room index to keep up to date, a capitalisation table to reconcile. Each task makes sense only as part of a transaction you rarely get to see whole.
The editions below show the whole transaction. Each one follows a single fictional deal from start to finish and attaches every document in full, so you read the clauses in the order the deal needs them, with a short test after each chapter.
Where to start
How a private company is bought under English law, end to end — from the first confidential call to completion. Built around Project Sunrise, a fictional €42m acquisition, with a complete share purchase agreement.
€39The buyer's investigation, end to end — scoping, data rooms, red flags, risk ratings and report writing. Built around one fictional exercise: what a payments group found inside an Irish fintech before it signed, with a complete red-flag due diligence report.
€39How co-owners of a company agree to live together — the board, the veto list, deadlock, funding, transfers, exit and the manager's shares. Compact: ten chapters built on one fictional 55/35/10 joint venture, with the full agreement attached.
€39How startup investment actually papers — the instruments that take money before anyone agrees a price, and the priced round that finally sets one. Built around one fictional company's funding history, from two founders to a single shareholder, with a complete training investment agreement.
€39How a private company's board is run — matters reserved, directors' duties, conflicts, meetings and quorum, committees and controls, the recall nobody wanted and the minutes that prove it. Compact: ten chapters built on one fictional company's year, with the full board charter attached.
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