Due Diligence and the Business Transaction: Getting a Deal Done is a practical guide to due diligence for anyone buying orselling aprivately heldbusiness or entering into a major agreement with another company.

When you re buying a business, it s wise to conduct due diligence. That's the process of investigating and verifying the firm s finances, labor record, exposure to environmental issues, store of intellectual property, hard assets, ownership structure, and much more. If you don t, you may later stumble into serious, costly problems, or you may pay an inflated price for the...