Due diligence and disclosure

This subtopic provides guidance and precedents for conducting due diligence in private M&A share and asset purchases in Ireland. It covers due diligence reporting, commercial contract reviews and further information requests, together with environmental, health and safety, ESG, IT and intellectual property enquiries, and the establishment and use of physical and virtual data rooms.

This subtopic contains the following guidance:

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   Precedent: Ireland—Legal due diligence report—private M&A—share purchase is a legal due diligence report for use in a private M&A share purchase transaction in Ireland, to be prepared by the buyer's solicitors after conducting due diligence on the acquisition. It is a standard, long form (or detailed) report, which comprises a detailed review of the target company and its business

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   Precedent: Ireland—Legal due diligence commercial contract review template—private M&A—share purchase is a template for the review of commercial contracts on a legal due diligence exercise undertaken in a private M&A share purchase transaction. It acts as a checklist that the lawyer in charge of due diligence wishes the rest of the legal team to consider when carrying out the review of commercial contracts

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   Precedent: Ireland—Legal...