Legal & Financial Due Diligence
Our lawyers and in-house chartered accountants have the in-depth knowledge and expertise in providing legal and financial due diligence to our clients.
We strongly recommend that prior to the acquisition of a company or of a company's stake of shares, or prior to entering into or enforcing or registering measures like Pledge & Charge Agreements, a legal and financial due diligence is undertaken in order to ensure:
- the legal and financial standing of the target company
- the ownership to the shares under sale or charge
- the liabilities and/or obligations, if any, of the target company
- that the corporate governance obligations are met
- that a sound method of acquisition is put in place
- that any agreement, such as Pledge, is lawful according to Cypriot Company Law and as such it can be duly registered
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We offer legal and financial due diligence services for the benefit of clients prior to entering into a potential agreement for merger, acquisition, charge or pledge, or a corporate finance transaction.
Our clients include corporate and private investors as well as local and international practitioners. We have on few occasions discouraged our clients from moving forward and completing a Share Purchase after the disappointing results which a sound legal and financial due diligence showed; these clients have appreciated our work more than any other.
Investing through the acquisition of a company (such as, instead of purchasing an immovable property directly you choose to acquire the company which owns the said property) may seem risk free sometimes; however, the losses can be great and the pitfalls many in case of hidden liabilities which the company may later prove to have. We always encourage our clients to consider having a proper legal investigation and a legal and financial due diligence issued.
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