Legal Due Diligence

• Target Legal Audit: Conducting comprehensive legal reviews of the target company’s corporate standing, licenses, and contractual commitments.
• Regulatory Compliance Check: Assessing compliance status regarding tax, labour, environmental, and industry-specific regulations.
• Risk Identification: Highlighting material legal risks, potential liabilities, and contingent claims associated with the transaction.
• Data Room Management: Organizing, analyzing, and providing reports on information presented in the virtual or physical data room.
• Report & Disclosure: Preparing detailed Due Diligence Reports and assisting with required legal disclosures.
• Post-DD Strategy: Advising on how due diligence findings impact valuation, representations, and warranties.

Transaction Documents

• Term Sheet/LOI Drafting: Preparing and negotiating initial non-binding documents, such as Term Sheets and Letters of Intent (LOI).
• SPA Drafting: Drafting and negotiating the definitive Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) or Asset Purchase Agreement (APA).
• Joint Venture Agreement: Structuring and drafting comprehensive Joint Venture Agreements (JVA) defining governance, capital, and exit mechanisms.
• Ancillary Agreements: Preparing essential supporting documents, including escrow, non-compete, transitional services (TSA), and shareholder agreements.
• Closing Documents: Preparing and managing all required documents for the official closing and handover of the transaction.

Regulatory Approvals

• M&A Approval: Filing and securing mandatory M&A approval from the Department of Planning and Investment (DPI) for foreign acquisitions above thresholds.
• Competition Clearance: Assessing transaction scope against competition law and preparing applications for merger control clearance from the National Competition Committee.
• Licensing Amendments: Handling the post-closing amendment of the target company’s Enterprise Registration Certificate (ERC) to reflect the new foreign ownership.
• Sector-Specific Permits: Securing necessary regulatory consents in conditional business lines (e.g., banking, telecom, logistics).
• Anticipatory Guidance: Consulting with regulators to clarify novel regulatory issues or uncertain requirements pre-filing.
• Capital Account Registration: Assisting with the mandatory procedures for registering foreign capital contributions and transfer accounts.

Intergration

• Post-Closing Restructuring: Advising on the legal structure for merging or consolidating the acquired entity into the investor’s group (e.g., entity dissolution, internal mergers).
• HR and Labour Integration: Harmonizing employment contracts, benefit schemes, internal labour rules, and addressing severance costs.
• License Integration: Consolidating or transferring operating licenses, permits, and ensuring post-M&A compliance.
• Corporate Governance Unification: Aligning the target company’s corporate charter, board composition, and governance policies with the investor’s standards.
• Contract Migration: Reviewing and managing the assignment or transfer of key commercial contracts to the new entity structure.
• Compliance Rollout: Implementing the investor’s compliance policies (e.g., anti-corruption, data protection) across the newly integrated entity.