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Corporate Due Diligence Review

Structured workflow for corporate due diligence review: organise the supplied facts and documents, identify missing information, draft or analyse in stages, and verify facts, authorities and assumptions before use.

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Reusable prompt for Malaysian corporate and commercial practice. It should be used with the Universal Corporate Lawyer Control Block and checked by a supervising lawyer before use externally.

Prompt

Conduct a legal due diligence review of `[TARGET]` for `[BUYER/INVESTOR]` in connection with `[TRANSACTION]`. Review corporate status, ownership, governance, material contracts, financing and security, assets, IP, employment, disputes, licences, data protection, insurance, tax documents supplied and regulatory compliance. Use a document-indexed issues table. For every finding state the source, issue, risk level, transaction consequence, further information required and recommended treatment through a condition precedent, warranty, indemnity, price adjustment, covenant or remediation. Do not state “no issue” where the relevant documents were not supplied.

Repository section: Due Diligence and M&A

Required inputs: Data room; transaction scope; materiality threshold; target details.

Suggested use: replace all square-bracket placeholders before running the prompt. For confidential corporate records, board papers, cap tables, due-diligence materials or transaction documents, use a private/local model where possible.

Jurisdiction	Malaysia
Practice Area	Corporate / Commercial
Party Role	Any / as prompt specifies
Lifecycle Stage	Due Diligence and M&A
Document Type	Due Diligence and M&A
Prompt Number	18
Required Inputs	Data room, transaction scope, materiality threshold, target details.
Expected Output	Corporate Due Diligence Review output structured for Malaysian corporate practice.
Reviewed On	2026-07-26
Version	1.0
Verification Checklist	Distinguish facts, allegations and assumptions., Cite the document/page for each material fact where possible., Identify missing or contradictory evidence., Do not invent authorities., Check every authority and quote only verified propositions., Separate proposed drafting from facts requiring client confirmation.