Corporate and M&A legal support
Fully pipelinedDue diligence contract review
Diligence review is the largest cost line in most transactions and it arrives under a closing timetable that does not move. We review the population at a fixed price per contract and hand back a findings register that is already filtered for materiality.
- Published price
- $20–60 / contract
- Turnaround
- 1 to 3 weeks
- Without us
- $80–240 / contract
Fixed per unit, not hourly. No minimum engagement. Quoted before we start.
How we actually produce this
Our pipeline produces the deliverable end to end. A qualified lawyer samples the output and signs it before it leaves us.
The pipeline is ours. It was built for legal work rather than adapted from a general product, which is why the price for this service is a published number instead of an hourly estimate.
- Why this work leaves a firm
- Diligence review is the largest cost line in most transactions and it arrives under a closing timetable that does not move.
- What our pipeline does
- We extract to the issue categories the deal requires: change of control, assignment, exclusivity, most-favoured-nation, termination rights, MAC clauses, liability caps, indemnities, non-competes, renewal and notice provisions. Every finding carries a citation to the specific clause. Findings are scored against the materiality threshold you set, and the output feeds directly into schedule building.
- Where a lawyer steps in
- Every materiality call and every consent determination.
- What it changes
- Our strongest service. Diligence populations that would consume a team for weeks come back at roughly a quarter of the cost, on the closing timetable rather than against it.
What you receive
A findings register by contract and by issue, cited excerpts, a materiality filter and a consent schedule.
Volume brackets apply above 100 contracts and the unit price falls sharply at diligence scale. Heavily negotiated agreements and non-English contracts are quoted separately after a sample.
- A findings register organised both by contract and by issue, so it works for the deal team and the specialists
- A cited excerpt behind every finding, so nothing has to be taken on trust
- A materiality-filtered issue list, separating what affects the deal from what merely exists
- A consent and notice requirement schedule, keyed to change of control and assignment provisions
- A list of contracts we could not review and why - missing pages, unsigned, illegible
- A coverage report showing what was reviewed against the data room index
What it costs, and what it replaces
Both figures are published ranges for the same unit of work. Ours is fixed before we start; if our process gets faster, that is our gain and your price does not move.
How engagements are structured →- Adnah Legal
- $20–60 / contract
- Typical cost without us
- $80–240 / contract
Roughly 75% lower at the midpoint of each published range.
How the work runs
01
Agree the issue list and thresholds
What counts as a finding, and what counts as material, is agreed in writing before the population runs. Diligence reviews go wrong when that conversation happens in the findings memo.
02
Calibration set
A sample of contracts is reviewed and returned. Your corrections tune the issue definitions and thresholds before the rest of the population is touched.
03
Review at volume
The population runs through the pipeline against the agreed issue list, with each finding bound to the clause and page it came from and a confidence score attached. Low-confidence items route to a lawyer.
04
Lawyer review, materiality filter and delivery
A qualified lawyer works the exceptions, applies the materiality filter and scores a QC sample. The register is delivered with the coverage report and the unreviewable list.
What we need from you
- The contract population or data room access, scoped to the review
- Your issue list, or the diligence memo structure you want findings to map onto
- The materiality thresholds that apply to this deal
- The closing timetable, so the review sequence can be ordered against it
What we check before delivery
- A scored sample is checked on every population and the agreement rate is reported to you
- Every finding is bound to a clause and page, not to a summary of the contract
- Coverage is reconciled against the data room index, so a contract cannot be silently skipped
- Materiality is applied against your thresholds, and borderline items are listed rather than filtered out
When firms send us this
- A diligence population that would otherwise consume a team for weeks
- A closing timetable that was set before anyone counted the contracts
- Second-request or carve-out diligence where the population is large and the issues are narrow
- Sell-side preparation, finding the consent requirements before the buyer does
Questions about due diligence contract review
How is this different from contract abstraction?
Abstraction pulls structured data out of every contract against a schema. Diligence review is looking for problems against an issue list and a materiality threshold. Many deals want both, and running them together is cheaper because the population is ingested once.
Can you work in our data room?
Yes, under named accounts you create and control, so the access log stays inside your system.
Who decides what is material?
You do, at the start, by setting the thresholds. We apply them and list the borderline cases separately rather than making the call ourselves.
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