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Red-flag report

A due diligence report confined to the issues that matter — the deal-breakers, price-changers and items needing contractual protection — rather than a description of everything reviewed. The modern default, because nobody pays for a 400-page summary of documents the client owns. Chapter 7

Explained in Chapter 7, Due Diligence, of M&A Foundations.

The main page for this term is Red-flag report, in Legal Due Diligence.

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