Run due diligence and draft the deal documents
Corporate Transactions: Due Diligence, M&A and Investment Documentation
Live cohort 44 teaching hours Up to 15 learners per cohort Not yet scheduled Fee not yet set
Build a due-diligence checklist and data-room index for a given target-company fact pattern.
- Format
- Live cohort
- Teaching hours
- 44 teaching hours
- Next cohort
- Not yet scheduled
- Fee
- Not yet set — published here as one GST-inclusive figure with a per-teaching-hour rate.
- Refund
- Full refund until your second class
- Cohort size
- Up to 15 learners per cohort · every draft reviewed
How a cohort on this course is planned to run
- Sessions a week
- Not yet decided. We will publish it before this cohort opens.
- Day and time
- Not yet decided. We will publish it before this cohort opens.
- Reviewed-draft turnaround
- 3 working days for a full draft, 2 working days for a short one, counted from the day after your draft arrives; the review is due by 11:59 pm India time on the last of them.
- Redraft
- One redraft of every reviewed document is included.
- Who marks your draft
- A faculty reviewer marks every submitted draft. Planned: up to 3 reviewers per cohort.
- Free sit-in session
- One free session, to watch only, once this course’s cohorts are scheduled. A guest does not submit a draft for review.
- Recordings
- Every class is recorded; you watch it in the site’s own player, with resume-where-you-left-off and playback speed up to 2x — on your phone and your laptop at once. How many classes a week, and on which days, is not yet decided.
Who this is for
For
- A corporate-law associate who currently supports due diligence but has not yet run a data room or drafted transaction documents independently.
- In-house counsel at a company raising capital or making acquisitions who needs to read and negotiate the documents rather than rely on outside counsel for every point.
- A company-secretary or compliance professional moving into a transactional legal role who needs the drafting side of the practice, not only the filings.
Not for
- Anyone whose need is the underlying commercial contracts a target company runs on — vendor, licensing, service agreements — rather than the transaction documents themselves; see “Commercial Contract Drafting and Negotiation.”
- Anyone whose need is a data-protection compliance audit specifically — see “Data Protection Practice under the DPDP Act and Rules”; this course treats DPDP only as one line item inside a due-diligence checklist, not as a full compliance build.
- Anyone new to corporate law altogether — this is a practice course for people who already know what a company, a share and a board resolution are.
What you leave with
- Build a due-diligence checklist and data-room index for a given target-company fact pattern.
- Draft a red-flag report ranking findings by materiality.
- Draft a term sheet and a shareholders’ agreement’s control provisions for a Series-stage investment.
- Draft a share purchase agreement’s representations, warranties and indemnity structure.
- Draft a conditions-precedent and closing checklist for a simulated transaction.
How a cohort runs
Live session
You join a live class, in a browser, and work through that session's material with the rest of the cohort.
You draft
You produce a real document from the session, such as a clause, a notice or a checklist, not a summary of what was said.
8.1 The Sellers warrant that the Company has no pending litigation.
Reviewed in green
The faculty marks up your draft the way a senior marks a junior's work: insertions in green, deletions struck through, with a note against anything that needs one.
8.1 Save as fairly disclosed in the Disclosure Letter, the Sellers warrant that, at the date of this Agreement and at Completion,
the Company has no pending litigation.no litigation, arbitration or regulatory proceeding (including any tax assessment, show-cause notice or investigation) is pending or, to the Sellers’ Knowledge, threatened by or against the Company.You draft it again
You revise against the markup and produce the next draft. That is the loop, session by session, for the length of the course.
8.1 Save as fairly disclosed in the Disclosure Letter, the Sellers warrant that, at the date of this Agreement and at Completion, no litigation, arbitration or regulatory proceeding (including any tax assessment, show-cause notice or investigation) is pending or, to the Sellers’ Knowledge, threatened by or against the Company.
How this cohort runs
Delivered live, cohort by cohort, structured around a single simulated transaction that runs from term sheet through closing across all six modules.
Who teaches it
Named here before enrolment opens, with the modules each person teaches.
Corporate transactions
Lead faculty, Corporate transactions — named before enrolment opens.
Teaches and reviews
- Module 1: Deal Anatomy — Structuring Choices & Transaction Timelines6 hours
- Module 2: Legal Due Diligence — Scope, Data Rooms & Red-Flag Reports8 hours
- Module 3: Term Sheets & Investment Documentation — SHA/SSA Drafting8 hours
- Module 4: M&A Documentation — Business Transfer, Share Purchase & Merger Agreements10 hours
- Module 5: Regulatory Approvals & Competition-Law Filings6 hours
- Module 6: Closing Mechanics, Conditions Precedent & Post-Closing Integration6 hours
You will see who teaches you before you can pay.
Syllabus
Module 1: Deal Anatomy — Structuring Choices & Transaction Timelines6 hours
- Asset purchase versus share purchase; merger versus acquisition.
- A realistic transaction timeline from term sheet to closing.
- Choosing a structure for a given commercial objective.
Module 2: Legal Due Diligence — Scope, Data Rooms & Red-Flag Reports8 hours
- Building a due-diligence checklist scoped to the deal.
- Running a data room.
- Drafting a red-flag report a deal team will actually read and act on.
Module 3: Term Sheets & Investment Documentation — SHA/SSA Drafting8 hours
- Drafting a term sheet.
- Drafting a shareholders’ agreement and share subscription agreement.
- Negotiating control and protective provisions — board seats, veto rights, anti-dilution.
Module 4: M&A Documentation — Business Transfer, Share Purchase & Merger Agreements10 hours
- Drafting a business transfer agreement.
- Drafting a share purchase agreement — representations, warranties, M&A-specific indemnities.
- Merger-scheme documentation.
Module 5: Regulatory Approvals & Competition-Law Filings6 hours
- Sectoral approval requirements.
- Competition Act notification thresholds and filing practice.
- Foreign-investment approval routes.
Module 6: Closing Mechanics, Conditions Precedent & Post-Closing Integration6 hours
- Drafting conditions precedent and a closing checklist.
- Escrow and holdback mechanics.
- Post-closing integration and indemnity-claim handling.
Total: 44 teaching hours. That is the figure the per-hour price will be calculated from.
Prerequisites
No law degree required. The course assumes working knowledge of company-law fundamentals — share capital, board process, basic company-law filings — of the kind a company secretary, founder or corporate associate has. Not an introduction to corporate law.
What we have not settled yet
Published because you would find out anyway, and because a course page that only lists what is decided is not telling you what you are buying.
- Cohort dates
- Not yet scheduled. Everyone on the notify list gets the dates and the price at the same time. There is no early-bird price and no pre-booking.
- Faculty
- Lead faculty, Corporate transactions — named before enrolment opens. We name the person teaching each module before you are asked to pay, not after.
- Price
- Not yet set. When it is set it appears here as one GST-inclusive figure, with the tax broken out and the price per teaching hour beside it. We do not quote prices on a call.
- Certificate
- Whether this course issues a completion certificate, and exactly what such a certificate would and would not say, is not yet settled. It will be answered on this page before a price appears on it. Whatever we decide, we will not describe any certificate as a qualification, a recognition or an accreditation, because it would not be one.
Three things you can hold us to
We have taught nobody yet, so we have no testimonials and will not manufacture any. These are the substitute: three promises you can check, each published in full and each enforceable against us.
Priced in the open
When a price is set it appears on the course page as one GST-inclusive figure, with the tax broken out and the price per teaching hour printed beside it. We do not quote prices on a call, and there is no price you get only by asking. We print a per-teaching-hour rate so you can compare us with anyone.
A refund with a clock on it
Cancel before your cohort starts, or after only its first class if you tell us before the second begins, and you are refunded everything you paid, including the tax, with no administration fee and no reason required. The clock stops the moment you tell us. After that, you get a full refund if we cancel, change or misdescribe what you bought.
You may criticise us in public
A written undertaking never to sue, threaten, send a takedown notice about, or gag anyone who criticises us — including criticism that is unfair or simply wrong. And the other half of it: we do not buy, write, solicit selectively, or delete reviews.
Questions we would ask
Do I need a law degree?
No. Every course is open to anyone who wants to learn the law it covers — lawyers, law students, and people who use the law at work.
Are the classes live, or recorded?
Live. A cohort meets on a schedule and works through the syllabus together. A recording is made available to the cohort afterwards through the site’s own player, which remembers where you left off and plays back at up to 2x speed.
What happens if I miss a session?
You watch the recording. Your right to a full refund runs on which class has happened, not on which classes you personally watched: ask before your cohort’s second live class begins and you still get everything back, whether or not you watched the first one live.
Will somebody telephone me?
No. There is no counsellor and no callback. If you join the notify list you get one e-mail when the dates and the price are published, and every e-mail carries a one-click way off the list.
Do I get a certificate?
Whether this course issues a completion certificate, and exactly what such a certificate would and would not say, is not yet settled. It will be answered on this page before a price appears on it. Whatever we decide, we will not describe any certificate as a qualification, a recognition or an accreditation, because it would not be one.
What if I want my money back?
Before your cohort starts: everything you paid, including the tax, with no administration fee and no reason required. The same is true after only the first class, if you ask before the second class begins. After that, a refund only in the cases the refund page lists. The whole policy is on the refund page, and no part of the detail takes the first sentence away.
When does the first cohort start, and what will it cost?
Neither is scheduled yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Everyone on the notify list gets the dates and the price at the same time. There is no early-bird price and no pre-booking — being on the list buys you nothing except being told.