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Share purchase transaction toolkit

The Share purchase transaction toolkit acts as a guide to private company sale and purchase transactions structured as a share purchase. It provides an overview of each phase of a share purchase transaction and the tasks that lawyers are required to complete as part of each phase. The toolkit includes links to Checklists, Precedents (with drafting notes), forms, Practice Notes and an explanation of the key drafting and negotiating points to consider in share purchase transactions.

See Practice Note: Due diligence and disclosure phase in share purchase transactions (which is part of the Share purchase transaction toolkit) for a guide to this phase of a private M&A (share purchase) transaction.

Due diligence

The buyer will carry out legal, financial and accounting due diligence into the seller and the target company, in order to obtain information, inform its negotiations and plan for the integration of the target company into its existing group. See Practice Note: Due diligence—share and asset purchases.

The following Practice Notes, which are part of the Share purchase transaction toolkit, provide guidance on the different

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