Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
*Original Content was created in 2023
Chair
Darren Pereira, Partner, Holding Redlich
Professional Skills
Effective Due Diligence in a Sale of Business
- Ensuring a business purchase is as promised: vendor warranties, personal inspection/trial periods, and due diligence
- What to ask for in due diligence: marketing material, assumptions list, and proposals
- Limiting the scope of the due diligence: relevance, ‘otherwise covered’ and materiality
- A guide to identifying material risks
- Who participates in due diligence and how to allocate tasks
- Controlling and managing the flow of information
- The due diligence report
Presented by Selwyn Black, Partner, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Business Law
Presenters
Selwyn Black, Partner, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Selwyn Black is one of Australia’s most experienced commercial law partners. He has significant business acumen, enabling him to work together with clients to achieve practical solutions. Selwyn listens carefully to clients to get the best understanding of their business, industry and goals. This enables him to help clients succeed. Selwyn has particular expertise in the establishment, sale and/or purchase and restructuring of companies, trusts and businesses. He has worked in the pharmaceutical, food, media, IT, engineering and transport industries. Selwyn is also a determined advocate and strategist in any dispute including business, compliance and estate disputes. He has also provided legal advice to a range of property developers and investors and has undertaken an extensive range of projects involving hotels, shopping centres and offices. Selwyn closely understands the needs of not-for-profit organisations. He acts for 2 industry associations, and has carried out innovative restructures, managed acquisitions and other commercial complex arrangements. He also assists with fiduciary, disciplinary, compliance and outsourcing issues. Selwyn is on the board of St Vincent’s Curran Foundation, and carries out significant pro bono work for charities.
Darren Pereira, Partner, Holding Redlich
Darren Pereira is a Partner in Holding Redlich's Corporate and Commercial Group and has extensive experience in a range of corporate transactions, including: mergers and acquisitions (including takeovers); private equity; fundraisings (private and public); initial public offerings; joint ventures; financing transactions and restructures. Darren has particular expertise in cross-border transactions having advised foreign clients on all aspects of corporate finance transactions in Australia, including fundraising, takeovers, financing and securitization.
