How To Produce A Legal Report ( Regarding Its Structure)

In order to define the Structure of a legal report we need to address the investment the client is seeking to undertake, stating from how the sector of relevance works and its position in the market, alongside with the own market conditions and regulations. 

All of these must be understood from a legal point of view, meaning to understand and study the legal framework surrounding the are of investment: Is it a regulated activity? Are there policy swifts planned to occur within the next 1-5 years that might affect the investment? 

All in all, a lawyer must understand which kind of information included in the legislation is related to different areas of the investment looking to be carried out:

• Compliance issues; 
• Which kind of tasks are required to be undertaken with public bodies.
• Probable sanctions.

Specially, it is of huge relevance to analyze if the investment requires to subscribe a warranty with public bodies, in addition to the study of the time spwan required between starting the administrative requirements to the consecution of the investment plan.

The structure might vary, however the basical approach is to firstly state the kind of investment sought, the legal framework that surrounds it, and the construction of hypothetical obstacles or activities to be undertaken, in the light of such legislation.

Obviously, if the investment depends on the purchase of a company operating in that market, the legal analysis will also address the legal state of such company from different legal views (Due Diligence). I already explained in a previous post about the Real Estate Due Diligence one.