MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS FILING SERVICES

• CSC can expeditiously retrieve certified and plain copies of corporate documents, including good standing certificates, formation documents, bring-down letters, DBA filings, apostilles, authentications, legalizations, filed annual reports, and an array of business documents that may be needed before close.

• Bring-downs are often needed for financial closings, due diligence searches, property transactions, assets sales, and mergers and acquisitions.

• CSC provides more Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) search records with the industry’s largest online UCC database of information and images, including tax lien searches and debtor searches. We deliver results faster than any other UCC filing service provider.

Delaware Trust is fully equipped to facilitate:

• M&A-related escrow holdback for cash and stock

• Paying Agent services to pay “target company” shareholders

• Payments to warrant holders and non-employee option holders

• 363 bankruptcy sales

• Subscription Escrow services for capital raises

• CSC provides Real Estate Document Recording solutions in more than 3,600 recording jurisdictions nationwide. Our comprehensive and easy-to-use application, ePrepare^®, provides access to our eRecording network, paper recording jurisdictions (non-electronic), nationwide property searches, and additional services to support all types of real estate transactions.

• Partner with CSC for Registered Agent service to make integrating acquisitions into your portfolio easy.

  • For newly acquired entities, we can perform an audit to determine where there are state registrations, the current status, the last filed annual report, and the current agent of record. We’ll deliver the results in a comprehensive audit report.

• After a merger or acquisition, you may need to update your corporate records, both internally and with governing authorities like the secretary of state corporate division.

  • CSC provides deal support through a number of other corporate transaction filings, including entity formations, mergers, conversions, amendments, foreign qualifications, and withdrawals.

  • CSC can include both domestic and foreign qualified jurisdictions and annual report filings to update officers, directors, management, and authorized signers.