Due Diligence

What are salient terms of contracts?

What are salient terms of contracts? Corporate lawyers spend a lot of time summarising salient terms from contracts into legal due diligence reports. Disclosure of salient terms of certain contracts is required in prospectus and circulars to shareholders of public listed companies for certain corporate exercises. When deciding whether certain …

Due Diligence

Due diligence for IPO

If you are wondering why your IPO lawyers ask so many questions whenever they detect potential legal non-compliance by your company which intends to undertake an IPO (even if it may not be a major issue), it is probably because of the following. The Prospectus Guidelines require any relevant laws, …

Due Diligence

Virtual data room for due diligence

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, it is increasingly common for data room to be set up virtually for due diligence. Some points to take note when preparing virtual data room (VDR): Organise the VDR in a user friendly-manner for the parties accessing the VDR. Separate documents into different folders …