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The Portfolio Legal Pack: How Funds Reduce Legal Firefighting Across Portfolio Companies

Banking & Finance Law, Commercial Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Data Protection Law, Employment Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholder Agreements / loucile@caveat

Investors doing regular deals in South Africa and across the region know the pattern: once the acquisition closes, the legal workload doesn’t reduce — it multiplies. And unlike the transaction legal work, which is scoped, budgeted, and managed, the post-close portfolio legal work tends to be reactive, unstructured, and expensive in ways that are difficult […]

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The Clarity Premium: Why Some Founders Get Full Price and Others Don’t

Commercial Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Data Protection Law, Employment Law, IP Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholder Agreements / loucile@caveat

Founders preparing for an exit tend to focus on the same thing: valuation. What the business is worth, what multiple is achievable, what comparable transactions look like. But the founders who consistently achieve the valuations they believe their businesses deserve understand something that takes most people one deal to learn. Buyers don’t just pay for

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The Portfolio Legal Work Nobody Plans For – and How Smart Funds Make It Repeatable

Banking & Finance Law, Corporate & Commercial Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholder Agreements / loucile@caveat

Investors who do regular deals know something that first-time buyers learn the hard way: the legal work doesn’t stop at signing – it often starts there. But the legal complexity in a well-run fund operates at two levels that require different thinking. There’s the fund level – formation, LP relationships, carry structures, regulatory compliance, and

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The Deal Gets Discounted When Buyers Can’t See the Business Clearly

Corporate & Commercial Law, Employment Law, IP Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Shareholder Agreements / loucile@caveat

Founders often assume the exit process is about one thing: valuation. But buyers rarely discount because they dislike the product or the market. They discount when they can’t see the business clearly enough to trust what they’re buying – and when they find surprises mid-diligence, they don’t just adjust the price. They slow down, add

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