Corporate and M&A · Deal team, transaction support, supervising partner
Turn a completion checklist into owned action items
Two weeks out from completion on the sale of Redgate Aggregates, the checklist is a spreadsheet nobody trusts. The run reads it against the conditions precedent in the agreement and returns the same list with owners, evidence and outstanding gaps attached.
- Agents
- Due Diligence, Matter Intelligence
- First draft
- An owned checklist comes back within a single run, well before the first completion call.
The problem
Step 01 of 05
Put the deal documents on one matter
The agreement, the current checklist, the draft board minutes for both companies and the ancillary documents sit together, with the target completion date recorded as a key date.
Project Halcyon: SPA warranties and disclosure
Buy-side warranty review, disclosure analysis and cited due-diligence grid.
- Client
- Halcyon Bidco Ltd
- Reference
- WC-2026-0412
- Practice area
- Corporate / M&A
- Jurisdiction
- England and Wales
- Responsible partner
- E. Vance
No conflict check on file.Chat, on this matter
Compare warranties with the disclosure letter.
Three high-priority exceptions require action: the unregistered charge, the change-of-control right and the tribunal claim.
Send a message… (@ to mention tools)BalancedPrepare for- 25 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Chat
- 21 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Run · completed · 560 credits
- 18 Aug
Project Halcyon: Disclosure Letter
Document · indexed
- 16 Aug
Project Halcyon: Share Purchase Agreement
Document · indexed
- 4 Aug
Matter opened
Opened
Step 02 of 05
Run the checklist against the conditions
Prepare for: Work-Stream Memo. The instruction asks which conditions precedent are missing from the checklist, which checklist items have no corresponding document, and which corporate approvals the agreement requires.
Agent
Jurisdiction
Prepare for
Deliver as
Instruction
What should the agent look for?Documents
Drop a contract, or pick one from the matter
Also on the matter
- Offer_letter_v3.pdf2 pages
- Staff_handbook_2025.docx61 pages
- Board_minute_14_Aug.pdf3 pages
Platform model · zero data retention · audit register onStep 03 of 05
Read what is missing
Three conditions never made it onto the checklist. The board minutes for the seller's parent are drafted in the wrong company's name, and a shareholder approval for a substantial property transaction has no supporting resolution.
6 items need your confirmation14 authorities · Where we lookedSenior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Summary
- 1.
Clause 9(c), non-competeHigh
The 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU, in any capacity, is almost certainly wider than reasonably necessary and therefore unlikely to be enforceable.
Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 - 2.
Clause 11, data and monitoringHigh
Blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing, special-category data or unrestricted monitoring.
UK GDPR, Arts 6 and 9 - 3.
Clause 4, holiday carry-overHigh
The unconditional five-day cap conflicts with mandatory carry-over rights where sickness, statutory leave or employer failure prevents leave being taken.
Working Time Regulations 1998, regs 13 to 13A
- 1.
Step 04 of 05
Take the owned list
Each item comes back with an owner, the document that would evidence it and the date it is needed by, so the transaction support lead can work the list rather than rebuild it.
Replace the UK/Ireland/EU non-compete with a 3 to 6 month restriction tied to competing corporate-law work.
Replace blanket data consent with a lawful-basis clause and a separate monitoring notice.
Remove the five-day carry-over cap and reference the statutory carry-over rules.
Narrow the client non-solicit to clients dealt with in the final 12 months.
Add an explicit working-time opt-out withdrawal mechanism.
Confirm the bonus clause states the discretion is exercised in good faith.
Step 05 of 05
Keep the record
The run, its checks and the documents it read are written to the audit register, which exports to a spreadsheet or a printable bundle with a content digest.
5 of 8 entries · digest sha-256Time Who Type Entry Matter 09:36 j.okafor Document Disclosure_letter_v4.docx uploaded · 18 pages HAL-2026-0031 09:30 e.vance Conflict check Conflict check on open · no matches across 38 matters RC-2026-0009 09:12 admin Member p.hartley added · role: Associate · 4 matters Workspace 08:55 r.chen Run Due Diligence Agent · review grid · 12 documents HAL-2026-0031 08:40 r.chen Verification Verify all · 6 authorities · 6 verified HAL-2026-0031 Exports carry a content digest so a reviewer can confirm nothing was edited after the fact.
What comes back
A document, not a transcript.
- Every condition precedent in the agreement matched to a checklist line, with the unmatched ones listed first.
- Checklist items with no supporting document, separated from those where the document exists but is unsigned.
- The corporate approvals the agreement calls for, including the shareholder resolution that has no draft.
- An owned list with dates that the transaction support lead can work from directly.
What it does not do
- It does not chase anyone. Owners and dates are set out for a person to act on, and the product sends nothing.
- It does not confirm that a signature page has been validly executed; it names the document and asks for the signed version.
- It cannot see documents held in a data room it has no copy of. What is not on the matter is reported as absent.