Legal Due Diligence Agent
The Legal Due Diligence Agent reviews data room documents for acquisitions, investments and financings. It works through corporate records, material contracts, litigation, licences, property and employment, extracts the key terms and red flags, such as change of control and exclusivity clauses, and drafts the due diligence report in your firm's format.
Ideal forCorporate attorneys
The difference
From 3-6 weeks per full due diligence to 1-2 weeks
Your deal team focuses on negotiating the issues rather than cataloguing documents, and the client gets findings sooner.
Done by hand
3-6 weeks per full due diligence
With the Vanine agent
1-2 weeks
Time returned to your team
65%
Indicative figures. We measure your own baseline in the first fortnight so the numbers you see are yours.
More coverage in less time
Data rooms often hold thousands of documents and review time is tight. The agent reads every document, so your lawyers review findings rather than skimming samples.
Red flags surfaced early
Change of control consents, B-BBEE ownership lock-ins, missing licences and restraint issues can reshape price and conditions precedent. The agent flags them as it goes, not at the end.
A consistent, traceable report
Every finding links back to the source document and page, so partners can verify quickly and the client gets a report that stands up to scrutiny.
Capabilities
Get through the data room faster, and find the issues that change the deal.
Built for corporate and M&A attorneys, banking and finance lawyers, in-house legal teams, private equity investors and DFIs running legal due diligence in South Africa.
Corporate records review
Checks the MOI, share registers, shareholder agreements, resolutions and CIPC records for ownership, authority and consistency under the Companies Act.
Material contract analysis
Extracts term, termination, change of control, exclusivity, assignment and liability provisions and flags consents needed for the transaction.
Litigation and regulatory exposure
Summarises pending and threatened litigation, regulatory investigations and correspondence, and notes where merger control or other approvals may be needed.
Licences and property
Reviews operating licences, permits and property records, including title deeds and leases, for validity, transferability and encumbrances.
Employment and B-BBEE
Reviews key employment contracts, restraints, incentive schemes and union agreements, and flags B-BBEE ownership commitments affected by the deal.
Report drafting
Drafts a red-flag or full due diligence report with an executive summary, findings by category, risk ratings and recommended conditions precedent and warranties.
How it works
From your systems to a result you sign off
Your transaction lawyers verify findings, the supervising partner signs off the report, and advice to the client remains with the firm.
Connect the places your data room documents already live.
Documents in the virtual data room, iManage or SharePoint, and CIPC, Deeds Office and company data through Windeed or SearchWorks via your subscription. Already use something else? We connect that too.
- OpenAI Frontier
- Your own AI platform or models
- Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel)
- Copilot Studio
- Virtual data rooms (Intralinks, Datasite, Ansarada)
- iManage and NetDocuments
- Windeed, SearchWorks and CIPC data via your subscription
Runs on request in Teams, Copilot Studio or OpenAI Frontier, with data rooms processed in the environment and models your firm approves.
Issue lists and extraction tables in Excel, and a draft due diligence report in Word, saved to the matter workspace.
Step by step
- 01
The data room index is loaded and the agent confirms the review scope.
- 02
It classifies every document and extracts the key terms.
- 03
It flags red flags and consents as the review progresses.
- 04
It drafts findings and the due diligence report with source links.
- 05
Your associates and partner review, verify and finalise the report.
- 06
The approved report goes to the client.
Deployment
Runs inside the tools your team already uses
The same agent and the same cited output, delivered three ways: through the AI assistant you have rolled out, on a model you host yourself, or inside your own software.
In the frontier assistant you already pay for
We publish the agent as an MCP server. Add it as a connector and your team calls it from the chat they use every day, with no new tool to learn.
"Sort the documents into review areas"
- target
- Industrial services group
- deal
- Share acquisition
On a model you host yourself
Run the agent on open-weight models in your data centre or private cloud. Your data room documents never leave your network, which keeps POPIA and data residency straightforward.
- Llama
- Mistral
- Ollama
- or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Inside your own software
Trigger a run from your own workflows, and push the finished output into your ERP, GRC or reporting systems. We build the integration with your team.
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Batch jobs
- Embeddable review panel
Governed the same way, every route
Whichever way your team reaches the agent, identity, permissions and audit stay with your existing controls.
- Single sign-on through Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace
- Reads only the documents each user is already allowed to open
- Every tool call written to an audit log you can export
How we deliver it
One agent, three ways to hold it
Start where your team already works, then take it as far into your systems as the value justifies.
DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
Your data room documents stay yours.
The agent runs inside your tenancy, reads only what each task needs, and never trains on your data room documents. Every step is logged so your auditors can see exactly what it touched.
Built for regulated work.
+YOUR DATA ROOM DOCUMENTS NEVER LEAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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