LEGAL AUDIT OR DUE DILIGENCE OF BUSINESS IN AUSTRIA

LEGAL AUDIT OR DUE DILIGENCE OF BUSINESS IN AUSTRIA

Legal audit and due diligence of the firm in Austria includes the following:

• Research of the authorized capital, its structure and corporate documents;
• Analysis of personnel and relevant documentation in the personnel field;
• Verification of compliance with the legislation and policies of the country, including GDPR;
• Analysis of business contracts and counterparties;
• Verification of the legal status of property, funds and other assets of the enterprise, as well as the presence of intellectual property and its protection;
• Checking the presence or absence of legal disputes;
• Compliance with environmental standards.

DUE DILIGENCE – LEGAL BUSINESS AUDIT

Prykhodko and partners law firm provides comprehensive legal business services (due diligence). Before buying a company, you must understand its condition, including legal, tax, accounting, financial and other risks.

Due diligence is carried out in the interests of both the business owner (Vendor Due Diligence) and the potential investor (Buyer Due Diligence).

Based on the results of the business audit, you will receive a Conclusion that will give you the following:

• Your desire to purchase a business may change significantly;
• You can get arguments for reducing the cost of the business you are buying;
• You can apply legal mechanisms in time to prevent various problems with the tax authorities, with counterparties, with employees, with investors, etc. in the future.

Order Due Diligence of a business (firm) – frequent cases:

• Purchase and sale of corporate rights to the company;
• Analysis of public offers of securities on the stock exchange (IPO);
• Mergers and acquisitions of businesses (M&A);
• Investment attractiveness of the company;
• Joint venture of two or more founders;
• Financing or crediting of business or its assets;
• Provision of repayable financial assistance, including interest.

Depending on this, there are at least two types of business verification:

• Full due diligence report (full scope) – the most detailed and complete analysis of all provided documents, open sources of information, as well as sources of information with limited access.
• Selective due diligence report (red flag report) — only those questions raised for research are checked.

Cost of due diligence in Austria, as elsewhere, depends on the volume of work to be performed by lawyers and auditors, on the number of issues that are investigated, on the volume of materials provided for verification, on the difficulty in accessing the information that needs to be checked.