Due Diligence: A Practical Guide aims to meet this need by providing a step-by-step manual of the complete due diligence process from start to finish. It brings together simpler transactional guidance with trouble shooting, potential pitfalls, points of concern and precedents to provide everything that the company and commercial lawyer needs in a single handbook. This is complemented with helpful checklists, diagrams and practice notes with tips and traps highlighted. The know how is supplemented with a wealth of fully annotated precedents, team sheets, questionnaires and reports. All of these are included on the accompanying CD-ROM, allowing them to be placed directly on client files, and giving users a ready made practice toolkit.

This nuts-and-bolts guide examines all aspects of an M&A due diligence--from coming to the decision to acquire a company, to who should be on the due diligence team, to the actual process and the final report and post-closing follow up. It advocates a focus on both risk mitigation and shareholder value creation, and emphasizes a holistic approach that spans from planning to post-acquisition integration.

This practical manual is a 'one-stop shop' for due diligence, containing everything practitioners need to conduct a thorough and focused due diligence exercise.
The handbook offers useful guidance and expert advice, providing checklists and commentary to help practitioners assess the value and inherent risk involved in the purchase of a company or business - both from a financial and legal perspective.
The main focus of the text is to provide the various checklists which make up the due diligence questionnaire - consisting of all the questions the would-be purchaser will want to ask and have answered in order to obtain a full picture of the value of the proposed purchase or investment.