Sample Legal Due Diligence Request Checklist

Following is a sample of a legal due diligence request Checklist, that may be pertinent to a potential buyer in a corporate acquisition (M&A) transaction, or to an underwriter required to do due diligence on an issuer of securities in a proposed initial public offering.

The target company or the issuer is referred to, together with its subsidiaries, as the “Company”.

This checklist is intended as a sample, for information only. It should not be used in an actual transaction. The due diligence request checklist presented in an actual transaction must be tailored to that particular transaction and to

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Outline Of Some Issues And Typical Terms In International Agency Or Distribution Agreements

I. Preliminary Issues

A. Agency or Distributorship Relationship Appropriate?

1. Consider other possible forms of doing business abroad: Deal by Deal Direct Sales to End Customers, Joint Venture, Licensing, Acquisition of a Foreign Company, Establish a Foreign Branch or Subsidiary.

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International Intellectual Property Licensing: Basic Introduction & Checklist

A. General – Overview & Introduction to Intellectual Property Licensing Across International Borders

1. Next Step to Expand International Operations? Licensing of patent rights, trade secrets, know how, copyrighted software or other technology, and trademark rights (collectively referred to hereafter as “Technology”) to overseas party for exploitation (manufacture, use and sale) abroad is often a next step (after exporting) to expand international operations – whether by companies around the world into the U.S. market, or by U.S. companies abroad.

2. License defined: A conveyance of a right under a patent, trademark or copyright which confers less than the

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Basic Terms in an International Distributorship Agreement for Products - Short Form Checklist

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