Recorded Webinar: Purchaser and Vendor Sale of Business Due Diligence: The Key Essentials

Regardless of whether you are the vendor or the purchaser, due diligence is essential. But what does it involve and what level of enquiry is necessary? These questions are answered in this session:

Vendor due diligence:

• Who should undertake vendor due diligence? – third party reports

• The benefits of vendor due diligence – transaction risk management

• Some vendor due diligence hot spots - currency enforceability of contracts with customers, suppliers and employees

• Cleaning up the PPSR

• Tax considerations in the due diligence process

• How much should go in the vendor due diligence report?

Purchaser due diligence:

• Income and profitability – what to look for and where

• Key areas of liability – taxation and other key liability hot spots

• Investigating PPSA security interests and determining releases

• Employee entitlement – understanding the full extent of liability

• Family elections – avoiding last minute headaches

• The customer base – assessing customer relationships and contracts

• Review of licences, leases and consents

• Reviewing IP ownership

• Business premises and OHS risk

• Understanding supply chain risk