Due Diligence is a process or effort to collect and analyze information before making a decision or conducting a transcation so a party is not held legally liable for any loss or damage.
Due diligence is an investigation, audit, or review performed to confirm facts or details of a matter under consideration. In the financial world, due diligence requires an examination of financial records before entering into a proposed transaction with another party.Due diligence became common practice (and a common term) in the United States with the passage of the Securities Act of 1933. With that law, securities dealers and brokers became responsible for fully disclosing material information about the instruments they were selling.
(1) Increase chances of success.
(2) Helps in negotiating better deal.
(3) Provide transparency for both parties.
(4) Rectify Unforseen problems.
(5) Reduce risks
(6) Provide financial details.
(7) Clarity about business operations
(1) Firstly, the investor has to sign the Letter of Intent and the Non-Disclosure Agreement with the Target Company.
(2) Receiving the document from the company and review of the same with the checklist of documents already submitted to the company.
(3) Recognizing the issues.
(4) Arranging the documents required for a Diligence.
(5) Creating a Data Room.
(1) MOA
(2) AOA
(3) Certificate of incorporation.
(4) Shareholding pattern.
(5) Financial statements.
(6) Income tax returns.
(7) Bank statements.
(7) Tax registration certificates
(1) What is Due Diligence
(2) What are types of due diligence?
(3) What are the essential steps to ensure due diligence?
(4) What is the end use of diligence?