Get your due diligence data room into shape before investors dig in

This service is usually relevant for founders, startups, growth companies and established businesses preparing for a capital raise, strategic investment, venture debt process or sale. It is especially useful where a business has grown quickly and its records are spread across different systems, advisers or team members. If you expect investors or buyers to ask for corporate records, commercial contracts, IP documents, employment materials or policy documents, a legal review of the data room can help you present those materials in a more coherent and transaction-ready way.

Businesses often run into trouble here when documents are missing, unsigned, inconsistent or out of date. Common examples include unclear IP ownership, founder or contractor arrangements that were never properly documented, cap table mismatches, old customer terms still in circulation, or confidentiality gaps when sensitive information is shared too early. Another recurring issue is that the documents say one thing while the business operates another way. That matters because the right drafting and advice depend on For Due Diligence Data Room Pack, the wording should follow your real information flows. For Due Diligence Data Room Pack, collection points and disclosure practices shape the drafting. information, and how it records its legal relationships in practice.

Not necessarily, because each transaction has its own diligence style and pressure points. One investor may focus heavily on IP ownership and founder documents, while another may drill into customer contracts, privacy practices or employment arrangements. This gives you a stronger basis for decision-making, but it should be applied alongside the way your business actually operates. or satisfy every future request automatically. It is best viewed as a legal readiness step that improves structure, highlights gaps and gives you a clearer basis for responding when diligence questions arrive.

No. This service is limited to the legal review, structure and issue-spotting described on the page. It does not include regulator approval, technical implementation of your data room, or security remediation work such as access controls, penetration testing or platform configuration. If your transaction touches a regulated area, If approval steps are relevant, we will explain what needs to be prepared and what sits outside the legal work.. External approvals, third-party decisions and technical security steps sit outside Sprintlaw's control, even where they affect the timing or usefulness of the data room.

If we identify missing or problematic documents, we will usually outline what the issue is, why it matters in diligence, and what legal work may be worth prioritising next. For example, that might involve updating contractor IP clauses, replacing outdated terms, documenting board or shareholder approvals, or tightening confidentiality arrangements before wider disclosure. Some businesses only need a cleaner structure and better indexing, while others need follow-on drafting work. If extra legal work is needed beyond the data room review itself, that would usually be scoped separately rather than assumed to sit inside the fixed-fee.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Due Diligence Data Room Pack service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.