• GL
Choose your location?
  • Global Global
  • Australian flag Australia
  • French flag France
  • German flag Germany
  • Irish flag Ireland
  • Italian flag Italy
  • Polish flag Poland
  • Qatar flag Qatar
  • Spanish flag Spain
  • UAE flag UAE
  • UK flag UK
  • GL
Choose your location?
  • Global Global
  • Australian flag Australia
  • French flag France
  • German flag Germany
  • Irish flag Ireland
  • Italian flag Italy
  • Polish flag Poland
  • Qatar flag Qatar
  • Spanish flag Spain
  • UAE flag UAE
  • UK flag UK

DWF Diligence

We deliver faster, smarter and value driven due diligence solutions, helping our clients de-risk and accelerate corporate transactions. We take a focused approach to due diligence, bringing together market-leading M&A lawyers and legal operations experts, applying cutting edge technology combined with robust and streamlined processes to identify the key legal risks and potential value items as well as commercial and pragmatic solutions.

Get in touch
corporate careers feature banner hero
0018 Guiding clients A4 Portrait
Corporate careers feature banner hero
Why choose DWF Diligence?
Our range of solutions
Benefits of DWF Diligence
Additional support
Meet our team
Get in touch today
Sign up to receive our communications
Complete our form to get key insights on all the topics that interest you, straight to your inbox.
   

Why choose DWF Diligence?

We conduct legal due diligence reviews on domestic, international and cross-border deals, whether on a stand-alone basis or as an integrated part of our M&A and Private Equity service offerings. 

We conduct due diligence across a wide range of industry sectors on businesses ranging from start-ups and small family-run companies through to listed and multinational groups. 

DWF Diligence provides a different solution to others because it provides legal technical and commercial expertise along with AI, automation, and data analytics solutions, combining the best of all.

We work seamlessly alongside your internal deal team, external deal lawyers and other advisors to anticipate risks, accelerate execution, and maximise deal value.

DWF Due Diligence

Our range of solutions

Our range of DWF Diligence solutions have been designed to meet the full range of transaction types. Just choose the solution that meets your needs for faster, smarter due diligence that lowers costs, reduces risk and increases deal certainty. 

  • Acquisitions
    0524 Working on documents 585x485px

    Acquisitions

    A detailed assessment across the full range of legal risks to identify risks that impact:

    • The go/no-go decision
    • Price
    • SPA protections

    Available in multiple report formats dependent on use of W&I insurance and any post-merger integration plans.

  • Investments
    Corporate tab image

    Investments

    A focused due diligence review to identify genuine red-flags pre-investment. Reporting is on an ‘exceptions-only’ basis across a core list of legal risks. 

    Our results are presented in a short form, Investment Committee ready, executive summary report. 


  • Sales & Exits
    corporate tab image

    Sales & Exits

    A thorough pre-sale review of your internal legal affairs. Designed to satisfy a buyer’s legal advisors and W&I insurers to increase deal certainty.

    Available as a full-form Legal VDD report, or as a more limited ‘factbook’, in both cases minimising the need for ‘top-up’ due diligence.

     
  • Refinancings
    0020 Developments explained 585x485px

    Refinancings

    A more limited due diligence review across the full range of legal risks.

    Designed to satisfy a lender’s legal advisors while applying a higher materiality threshold than on an M&A transaction.

    Our results are presented in a full & comprehensive report.

  • Reorganisations
    Person on phone and laptop tab image

    Reorganisations

    AI-enabled review of a range of contract types to identify obligations and risks across large contract portfolios. 

    Provides increased visibility of contractual commitments & risks along with solutions ensuring effective implementation.

    Available in multiple report formats (inc. live dashboard reporting).

     
  • IPOs
    Tax data on laptop tab image

    IPOs

    A review focussed on identifying pre-IPO remedial actions and the  information required to populate admission documents. Designed to satisfy your nominated advisor and accelerate the pre-IPO process.

    Our results are presented in a full & comprehensive report.

Benefits of DWF Diligence

Supporting your deal lawyers​

Whether we are engaged as an integrated part of the DWF deal team, or alongside other counsel, we work closely with your M&A transaction leads to provide everything they need to effectively negotiate the transaction documents and properly protect you against the risks we identify.

We regularly work with clients’ external transaction lawyers, to boost capability or capacity or simply to provide a more cost-effective due diligence solution.

On sales & exits, we reduce costs and inefficiencies by ensuring that our due diligence review simultaneously identifies disclosures against the warranties in the SPA.
Vendor Due Diligence​ ​

Our Vendor Due Diligence solution puts you in control of the deal process. This minimises the need to urgently respond to a substantial volume of requests from multiple bidders at a late stage in the sale process.

This also provides:

  • Early visibility of issues that might result in sale price reductions or a buyer demanding increased contractual protection.
  • The opportunity for management to remediate issues on a more realistic timetable pre-deal.
Faster and smarter

Combining legal expertise with structured processes and cutting-edge technology enables us to provide quicker, more efficient and commercially-focused legal due diligence solutions which:

  • Reduce turnaround time.
  • Improve consistency and accuracy.

Our multidisciplinary team of lawyers, project managers, and legal technologists deliver complex due diligence reviews working as an integral part of your deal team to:

  • Anticipate risks.
  • Accelerate execution.
  • Deliver your commercial objectives.
Cost efficiencies​

By reimagining the way in which due diligence is delivered, we can provide:

  • The legal and commercial expertise required for complex due diligence.
  • The speed, efficiency and cost-savings of an ALSP.

Applying a combination of human skillsets, processes and technology to the huge number of component tasks required for due diligence reviews enables us to:

  • Substantially reduce the time incurred by lawyers on low-complexity, repetitive tasks.
  • Provide increased price certainty.
  • Reduce overall costs.

Additional support

Deal Ready is a complimentary online self-assessment tool which delivers a RAG report mapping an organisation’s readiness for sale, investment or any other strategic transaction.

Deal Ready can be used by businesses contemplating a disposal or investment, by buyers or investors in early discussions with targets, or simply by management and legal teams to assess their company’s key legal priorities.

Vendor Assistance

In addition to our range of DWF Diligence solutions, we can also provide end-to-end “vendor assist” support to you throughout the entire transaction lifecycle. We offer a range of tailored and flexible support services to meet your needs, helping you to fill any internal capacity restraints. 

DWF also provides a full suite of M&A deal execution and post-merger integration services.

 

People

Meet key members of our team

768 x 510px Richard Woo (002)

Richard Wood

Head of Legal Due Diligence Services

United Kingdom

 
Image - Frank Shephard

Frank Shephard

Global Head of Corporate

United Kingdom

 
Patrick Eaton

Paddy Eaton

Partner // Head of Corporate

United Kingdom

 
View our full Corporate team

Get in touch today

Get in touch with a member of our team by using the details below or completing the form.
T +44 333 320 2220
F
+44 333 320 4440

E

Get in touch