Hi, all,

Are there any good books or CLEs or law review articles out there on the subject of performing general M&A due diligence? I’m looking mostly for kind of survey level material that could be used to generate training materials or a CLE.

I know how to do diligence myself, but I’d like to be more systematic about it, especially for purposes of training juniors. I never received any meaningful specific training in performing diligence. It was mostly just “here’s a massive number of documents, don’t miss anything important, don’t take too long, good luck”. That’s kind of … unfortunate since it is probably the largest or close to the largest work stream for an M&A transaction.

Anyway, if anyone can recommend any good reference resources … that would be great! Not finding much on Amazon (targeted to lawyers) or the ABA website (other than very niche materials). I think it’s just kind of an overwhelming subject matter.