Deals on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are multistage and resource consuming processes, requiring complex legal advice that include detailed legal assessment of the target company – legal due diligence/DD.

Legal due diligence is a detailed examination of target company’s commercial activity, in particular: analysis of legal documentation, analysis of legal facts about the company, which directly influence or can potentially influence company’s normal business activity.

IBcontacts conducts legal due diligence of companies in a variety of cases, primarily for buying and selling of business or its part – mergers and acquisitions (M&A), reorganization of companies. Besides, legal due diligence is conducted when examining capacity and financial stability of a counterparty, legal check of reliability of certain legal facts declared by the counterparty.

The most important goal of legal due diligence is to reveal legal risks in order to inform the interested party of the deal as well as override or minimize the risks revealed.

IBcontacts provides full range of legal services in M&A process:

• legal support during the negotiations process of the parties to a deal;
• legal due diligence of the target company;
• drafting and legal analysis of agreements concerning mergers and acquisitions;
• dispute resolution between the parties to a deal.

Besides, IBcontacts specialists offer services concerning restructuring of M&A models, as well as advice on reorganization of companies, due regard being paid to specific provisions of corporate, tax, labor and other fields of law in Ukraine. Thorough structuring of the deal, analysis and optimization of possible risks at the initial stage are the key to the successful realization of the project at the final stage of the deal.