How we work

Engineers and experts, in one room

There is no software to buy and nothing to learn. Getting started is as easy as instructing a lawyer: you give us access to the documents and we go to work. To prove our worth, we happily double-run a live deal alongside your current process. You keep working exactly the way you are used to - no new tool, no change management, just the results.

The Duely Tandem

We don't fly solo, we ride tandem

With the state of technology today, a big part of the knowledge work can be picked up by AI. We built our engine to excel at exactly that work. In M&A, however, a crucial part of the work is customising exactly to the needs of the client, managing the project, owning the responsibility and freeing up your time - human work that will always lie with us humans.

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For all the work that Duely delivers, both a legal expert and an AI engineer are involved. They work together in tandem: the AI engineer controls the AI-driven parts of the delivery, while the legal expert focuses on optimally performing the human-led parts of the work.

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  • Reading documents
  • Researching law
  • Writing
  • Formatting
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  • Project management
  • Responsibility
  • Responsiveness
  • Customisation

The result: a tailored, better, cheaper, more efficient service.

We say this, and we actually back it up. To experience it for yourself, reach out for a double run on your next deal.

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From documents to deliverable

The engine does the heavy lifting, the tandem owns the result

We get access to the relevant documents and process them securely through the Duely API to extract the relevant metadata and produce insights. From that Duely-enriched data room, we move into our Duely agentic workspace, where the tandem goes to work building the eventual client deliverable.

Relevant documents

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Duely-enriched data room

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Duely agentic workspace

Client deliverable

From A to Z

How we support your M&A transaction

One tandem across the entire deal - from single acquisitions to roll-ups, add-ons and buy-and-build programmes. Pick and choose where you leverage us: engage us for a single step, or let us own the whole journey, on the buy-side or the sell-side.

Step 01

Sell-side

Data room preparation

We build or clean up the data room: a tailored index, consistent naming across every document, a gap analysis against the request list and a legal sanity check - before anyone else looks.

Step 02

Sell-sideBuy-side

Legal due diligence & Q&A

Full buy-side or vendor due diligence across all workstreams, with the information request list and Q&A run alongside - single targets as well as roll-ups, add-ons and buy-and-build programmes. Red flags, zoom-in memos and a key findings report.

Step 03

Sell-sideBuy-side

Transaction documents

The diligence flows straight into the documents. SPA, APA, carve-outs and cross-border mergers: we draft, review and support the negotiation, so findings become protections.

Step 04

Sell-sideBuy-side

Signing & closing

We stay on the deal through signing: closing checklists, conditions precedent, pre-closing obligations - until the deal is actually done.

Step 05

Buy-side

Beyond closing

Post-closing action points, corporate housekeeping and standing arrangements for recurring work - including the integration of add-on acquisitions. We stay useful after the ink dries.

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