Selling your business is one of the hardest things you'll do. We handle parts that can destroy your deal or bury your team.
Disclosure schedules pile up. Bidder questions multiply. Problems are discovered at the worst possible moment. Most companies walk into diligence unprepared, introducing risk, delays, and burnout. Powered by AI, we deliver Biglaw-caliber diligence at ~20% of the cost, and tech that dramatically eases responding to bidder questions.
- Potential diligence issues spotted on a typical project
- >7
- Reduction in management time prepping disclosure schedules
- 50%+
- Of what top Biglaw firms charge for comparable work
- ~20%
- Of bidder questions are duplicative across bidders
- 50%+
Deals can go very wrong during diligence
You don't know what's in your contracts. A non-compete signed years ago. A change of control consent that you'll have trouble getting. Most sellers find out what's in their contracts when a bidder's lawyer tells them, mid-deal.
Then the questions start. Every bidder sends hundreds of questions and your team has to address them. Your team is buried, and inaccurate or inconsistent answers put the deal at risk.
Surprises become buyer leverage
Change-of-control consent rights. Non-competes you forgot about. IP assignments that weren't clean. When buyers' lawyers find these during diligence, they become negotiating leverage: repricing, indemnities, deal delays, or worse. The time to find them is before the process starts.
Disclosure schedules delay signing
80% of the work is easy. 20% is not, because it requires gathering information that isn't readily at hand, like whether any of your contracts contain exclusivity, non-compete, or MFN provisions. And it all has to get done when only a small portion of the team even knows the deal is happening.
Management gets buried for months
A typical sell-side process consumes a small group of people: the CFO, the GC, the head of HR, several others. Executives can spend 90% of their time on a transaction for the better part of a year. In the meantime, the business itself suffers as running it day-to-day falls by the wayside.
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Diligence Reviews: 1–2 week turnaround · ~$10K–$75K · ~20% of Biglaw cost
Bidder Questions: Same-day setup · Now in beta · Request a pilot
At ~20% of what Biglaw charges,
the math is clear.
Most deals cost $10,000–$75,000. Fixed fees, no surprises. The reviews pay for themselves in outside counsel savings alone. Factor in reduced risk and hundreds of hours back for your team, and the decision is easy.
Does the work hold up?
We've had our output scrutinized by top M&A lawyers. Here's what happened.
Zero additions.
On a recent PE-sponsored deal, Zuva prepared the contracts-related disclosure schedules. Two Chambers Band 1 M&A firms were representing the parties. After Zuva's work was delivered, neither firm identified a single contractual item requiring disclosure that Zuva had missed.
Case study available under NDA.
Contact UsComparable results.
We obtained access to the VDRs from two completed, Biglaw-led deals. We produced our own diligence reports independently, without seeing the Biglaw work, then compared them side-by-side with a GC with two decades of M&A experience who had reviewed both. The results were very similar within the scope we reviewed.
"Zuva performed similarly to Biglaw (within the scope of the review) for a much lower cost and at a much faster pace."
— David Pashman, General Counsel, JWX
Read the case studyWe built the leading legal AI for M&A, then sold our own company. We've been where you are.
Zuva was founded by the team behind Kira Systems, the legal AI platform used by 18 of the world's top 25 M&A law firms at the time of its sale. We retained a copy of the underlying Kira AI as part of that transaction. This means Zuva's diligence reviews use very similar AI to what buyers' counsel will likely use to review your contracts.
More about usNoah Waisberg, CEO. Co-founded Kira Systems into the leading legal AI company for M&A. Co-authored AI for Lawyers (WSJ bestseller). Named FT Top 20 Legal Innovator of last 20 years.
Ex-Biglaw M&A lawyers. Reviewing every pre-diligence report and providing judgment that pure AI cannot.
PhD-level AI research team. Publishing real research on contract AI. Not an AI wrapper.
SOC 2 Type II certified. Background-checked staff, built for sensitive deal materials.
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