Survey: Compliance due diligence in M&A transactions

Whether it is corruption, cartel infringements, money laundering, data breaches, product liability, or violations of international sanctions: acquiring a company can occasionally present substantial liability risks for the acquirer. Such risks not only have the potential to render a deal unprofitable, but they can also permanently impair the acquiring company.

With compliance due diligence (CDD) purchasers can reduce these risks. But what significance do market participants attach to CDD today and how far has its institutionalisation progressed in M&A transactions? What concerns are there on the seller's side and what instruments are used to conduct the review? To provide answers to these and other questions, we polled, together with the chair for Private Law, Corporate and Financial Law at the University of Frankfurt's House of Finance, the executives and managers responsible for M&A and compliance at blue-chip companies and investors in the German market.

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