Due Diligence: The Value of Entity Management in M&A

DealLawyers – One of the things that sometimes drives businesspeople up a wall about lawyers is our obsession with recordkeeping. Minutes, board and stockholder resolutions, documentation of share issuances and preparation of other corporate records loom large in most lawyers’ priorities, but for business folks, that’s often not the case. Well, the next time somebody from the business side rolls their eyes when you shove a bunch of organizational minutes for a new Norwegian subsidiary under their nose, be sure to point them in the direction of this Deloitte study, which says that failing to pay due attention to legal entity management can be very costly when it comes to M&A