For over 12 months, Ms. Habbart, in collaboration with other prominent lawyers around the world, contributed to the new IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee Legal Due Diligence Guidelines. The new guidelines provide useful and practical guidance on advising buyers versus sellers, avoiding inappropriate information flows, managing and motivating due diligence teams, complying with international sanctions, and other due diligence topics of great interest to Corporate and M&A lawyers. By providing practical guidance for carrying out legal due diligence processes, the project enables the IBA to fulfill its leading role in developing important international guidelines for legal practitioners, especially those in developing legal markets. The committee will present the new guide at the 2018 IBA Annual Conference in Rome this fall. The full text can be found here.
