Due Diligence for Corporate Acquisitions

Due Diligence for Corporate Acquisitions is mainly a creation of legal practise and not of theory. In the last twenty years it has become in many jurisdictions a standard product for legal practitioners. This work provides an overview of the essential aspects of the legislation, regulation and legal practise in 16 jurisdictions on four continents. Every country report highlights the key features of the Due Diligence regime, including whether or not there exists a legal obligation to perform Due Diligence, a lawyer's duty of care and consequences of breach, rules regarding the general scope and standard of Due Diligence, European legislation and regulations where applicable, the role of outside experts, and the form of the Due Diligence report. For practitioners, the real juice of the book is found in the Due Diligence checklists included in some of the reports. They show what clients and lawyers from one jurisdiction can expect if they ask for advice in another jurisdiction. The book is both a helpful guide for practitioners and a useful resource for academic research into the subject on a comparative legal basis among several jurisdictions.