Virtual data room services for fast-track restructuring and refinancing Do you need to quickly restructure or reorganise your business? Our virtual data room and due diligence services help you to organise, manage and control the process. And do it cost-effectively.
Act now and survive the coronavirus crisis
Take control and be Deal Ready
Under the coronavirus pandemic, even the most successful
Our transaction team understands business documentation and
companies are facing unprecedented financial challenges. So it
can oversee your entire information process, from preparation to
is urgent that you secure your financial position. Whether this
closing. We work in the world’s most popular virtual data rooms,
means debt-financing, an asset sale, equity financing, accelerat-
including Merrill DataSite, IntraLinks, Imprima iRooms, Drooms
ed M&A, or going into administration, you need to do this quickly,
and Ansarada. We deploy artificial intelligence software to sim-
securely, at low risk and at the lowest possible expense. Legadex
plify, automate and accelerate document collection and categori-
can help when time is of the essence.
sation, to analyse contract clauses and to identify potential risks. We can help you identify red flags and risks, and proactively
Why Legadex?
prepare you for your next steps.
Legadex accelerates transactions and saves you money. We help you move fast to set up a virtual data room and to process, re-
Benefits for refinancing and corporate restructuring:
view and report on large numbers of documents. This puts you in
• Be deal ready using the Legadex Deal Ready checklist©
a stronger position to refinance or restructure now – or prepares
• Use data analysis to gain insight into key business information
you for what may become necessary as the economic downturn continues.
before restructuring • Get insight into your credit agreements and key business contracts
As a legal service provider with more than 12 years’ M&A experience, we bring insight, speed, security and quality to your transaction information process, all at substantially less expense than working with a traditional law firm. Our specialists work for private equity, financial institutions, listed companies and family-owned businesses.
• Set up an accessible VDR platform at low cost using Legadex Collaborate • Get standard templates for process letters, disclosure letters and other routine steps • Fast redacting (blacklining) options, including the use of artificial intelligence
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Benefits for early and accelerated M&A: • Quickly create overviews of potential challenges and the applicable documents • Transparently structure and report key information such as cash flow and customers
How we help you fast-track your restructuring or refinancing ambitions
• Identify, collect and update information • We offer a fully-fledged secure collaboration platform for free
Benefits for administration and bankruptcy:
Legadex can help you optimise all four phases of the M&A, restructuring and reorganisation transaction process.
• Efficient document support through insolvency or bankruptcy • Get help communicating with stakeholders (stakeholder management)
Collect and organise your virtual data room using the Legadex Deal Ready checklist
• Get help preparing business units for possible divestment
We begin setting up your VDR by defining your legal and business
• We provide AI-enabled document review and insightful
folder structure. Together with your advisors, we determine which
reports to the restructuring departments of banks, trustees
documents matter in your transaction process. Then we locate,
and receivers
collect, review, index, rename and upload them to the right folders within your structure. This process can be done manually or with help from AI (artificial intelligence) solutions. To comply with GDPR requirements, we also offer services to redact (blackline)
Flexible pricing
personal data in the VDR. We can advise on the scope of the black-
Every transaction is unique, which is why we prom-
lining and the use of AI, employing a mix of technology-based and
ise a tailor-made price for your situation. To give an
manual redaction as necessary.
idea of the likely costs in advance:
Invite external advisers and manage the Q&A process • We charge €75-95 per hour for junior paralegal
Here we invite external advisers from potential purchasers or in-
support and €125-175 per hour for management
vestors to begin reviewing the documents in the VDR. We ensure
and senior legal support.
that questions are directed to the people you have identified as
• Typically, a small project costs between €5,000
being the best qualified to answer them.
and €15,000. • A large or complex one costs between €30,000 and €100,000. • All figures exclude VAT.
Streamline the signing and closing process We accelerate signing and closing by creating digital closing binders in your VDR. These binders contain all the required documents. This both ensures that all the necessary documents are
However, we are always happy to do a quick scan of
offered for signing, and that they are in fact signed.
your needs to provide a ballpark estimate. Start by contacting Morad Kada or Luc van Daele:
Maintain one version of the truth going forward The VDR and due diligence process pulls together a wealth of
Morad Kada
valuable company information and puts it in one place. But what
T: +31 6 46 41 77 23
about once the deal has been done? This is your chance to main-
E: mkada@legadex.com
tain one version of the truth rather than going back to having multiple ones, something that may prove more important than ever
Luc van Daele
going forward. For example, we can help you process the transac-
T: +31 6 20 61 31 36
tion documents into your contract management and legal entity
E: lvandaele@legadex.com
management tools. This establishes a central contract repository.
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