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Legal Due Diligence

Find the risk before it finds the price.

Diligence is not a document review. It is the disciplined act of converting everything unknown about a target into something a board can price, paper or walk away from. We do it quantified, not narrated.

Every liability a buyer fails to find becomes a liability the buyer has agreed to assume. Diligence is the cheapest insurance in the entire transaction.
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Domains reviewed as one connected risk picture, not six silos
TCL
Techno, Commercial and Legal lens on every finding
AI
Contract intelligence reads the full data room, not a sample
How we help

Six domains. One quantified risk picture.

A finding only matters if the board can act on it. We score every issue for severity and convert it into the right instrument: a price adjustment, an indemnity, a condition precedent, a disclosure or a reason to stop.

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Corporate & Secretarial

Title to shares, capital history, charter documents, board and shareholder approvals, statutory registers and the clean chain of ownership the buyer is actually paying for.

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Material Contracts

Customer, supplier, financing and group contracts read for change of control, assignment, exclusivity, termination and liability triggers that activate on the deal itself.

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Litigation & Disputes

Pending and threatened litigation, arbitration, regulatory action and contingent exposure, quantified and provisioned rather than merely listed.

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Regulatory & Licensing

Sectoral licences, approvals, FEMA and FDI position, and the conditions that travel with a change of ownership in regulated industries.

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Employment & Labour

Key person contracts, ESOP and retention, statutory dues, gratuity and provident fund, and the people risk that walks out of the door after closing.

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Data, IP & Technology

Ownership of code and brand, open source exposure, technology debt, and data protection readiness under the DPDPA that becomes the acquirer's liability on day one.

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The AMLEGALS method

From data room to a report a board can decide on.

Our deliverable is not a folder of observations. It is a ranked, quantified red flag report that tells the deal team exactly what to negotiate, what to condition and what to price.

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Scope & Data Room

Tailor the request list to the transaction, the sector and the size. Open the room and triage.

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Review & Risk Scoring

Every document read and every issue scored for severity, likelihood and deal impact.

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Red Flag Report

A ranked report, not a dump. High, medium and low, with the recommended instrument for each.

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Issues & Remediation

Translate findings into price, indemnity, conditions precedent and disclosure positions.

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Reliance & Disclosure

Disclosure schedules built against the warranties so the document set and the diligence agree.

Vendor due diligence

Sell side diligence is how you control your own narrative.

A seller who runs diligence on itself before the buyer does sets the agenda, removes surprises that depress price, and shortens the path to signing. We prepare the asset, build the disclosure story and defend value.

  • Surface and cure issues before a buyer can use them to discount
  • Build a clean, defensible data room that signals quality
  • Draft the disclosure schedules that protect the warranties you will give
  • Shorten the buyer diligence cycle and protect deal momentum
The numbers that govern this deal
The scope is not a checklist. It is a risk model.
A diligence exercise that misses one of these is not cheaper, it is incomplete. We build every scope across six domains and read data risk against a live enforcement clock.
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Diligence domains
Corporate, material contracts, litigation, regulatory, people and technology the connected scope behind every red flag report.
AMLEGALS scope
13 May 2027
DPDPA enforcement
Data and privacy diligence is no longer optional. The enforcement clock is already running on every target.
DPDPA
250 Cr
Penalty ceiling
What an undisclosed data liability can cost the buyer after closing, now quantified in the risk read.
DPDPA Schedule
Section 10
Significant Data Fiduciary
Whether a target is, or is about to be, an SDF changes the entire diligence posture.
DPDPA s.10
Diagnostic tool

Due Diligence Scope Builder

Tell the tool what you are buying and how. It assembles a tailored legal diligence request list, grouped by domain and weighted to where the risk actually sits for your transaction.

AMLEGALS · Transaction Intelligence

Build your diligence scope

A starting scope, not a substitute for counsel. Use it to brief your deal team and pressure test your data room.

Indicative scope
Not legal advice
Tailored on engagement
This builder produces an indicative scope only and is not legal advice. The actual diligence request list is tailored to the target, the warranties sought and the risk appetite of the acquirer under a privileged engagement.
Intelligence

Perspectives shaping the deal

Doctrine

Inference Debt in the data room

What a target has not written down is still a liability. The gaps in a data room often carry more risk than its contents. We read the silence.

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Method

Severity, not volume

A hundred low findings are noise. One unquantified contingent liability is the deal. Diligence is triage, and triage is judgment.

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DPDPA

The data liability buyers inherit

From the enforcement date of 13 May 2027, a target's data protection failures become the acquirer's exposure. Technology diligence is now legal diligence.

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Engage AMLEGALS

Diligence is judgment, and judgment does not scale by headcount.

Bring us the target while the data room is still opening. We will tell you what to price, what to condition and what to walk from.

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Engagements are conducted under attorney work product and privilege.