KPMG Law Scoping Tool

Context & use

Legal due diligence becomes particularly critical for potential acquirers when transactions are under time pressure, complex target structures exist or the legal risks need to be prioritized precisely. In these situations, large volumes of documents need to be reviewed, legal review priorities defined and results prepared consistently – often with the involvement of several specialist disciplines.

Solution & added value

To make this resource-intensive process more efficient and manageable, KPMG Law has developed the KPMG Law Scoping Tool. The tool enables prospective buyers to determine the key audit areas relevant to their transaction and the desired depth of audit in a structured manner and within a short period of time.

On this basis, the tool automatically creates the central working principles of legal due diligence, in particular:

• a document request list tailored to the selected key audit areas and
• a report template that is already provided with general legal information on the selected key audit areas.

The lawyers at KPMG Law prepare the due diligence report on the basis of this template, using additional predefined and regularly updated text modules that are stored in an intelligent database.

Result

Thanks to the structured preliminary work with the KPMG Law Scoping Tool, the lawyers involved can concentrate specifically on the transaction-specific features of the respective legal due diligence.

As a result, the audit is faster, more efficient and more meaningful – with consistently high technical quality and clear traceability of the audit decisions made.

KPMG Law Scoping Tool

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