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Due Diligence Data Room Checklist
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Due Diligence Data Room Checklist

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Identify critical documents needed for the due diligence process
2
Prepare main financial statements
3
Compile contracts and agreements
4
Collect reports of annual and quarterly financials
5
Gather information on assets and liabilities
6
Retrieve intellectual property related documents
7
Combine list of employees and key personnel details
8
Obtain list of shareholders and shareholding patterns
9
Gather company’s corporate structure and details of subsidiaries
10
Compile information on legal and litigation issues
11
Generate a list of regulatory and compliance documents
12
Prepare environment-related compliance and violation reports
13
Compile information on the company’s IT systems and infrastructure
14
Assemble customer and supplier information
15
Approval: Collection of documents and data
16
Scan and upload all the collected documents to the data room
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Organize all the documents in the data room according to categories
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Ensure that all confidential and sensitive data are encrypted
19
Check accessibility permissions for different participants
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Approval: Data room setup