Online Certificate Course on
Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence & AI
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Why Every Lawyer Must Learn This Now
India’s M&A market crossed USD 123 billion in 2025, and 2026 rewrote the rulebook. A new Income-tax Act, a new merger-control threshold, a new takeover pricing regime and a new Companies Act amendment all landed in the same year. Firms need associates who know the current law and can run a data room, not the 2019 version. This course builds both, plus the AI workflows that decide who gets staffed on the deal.
India’s M&A deal value in 2025
the CCI Deal Value Threshold now pulling digital deals into merger control
the Income-tax Act, 2025 came into force and changed how deals are structured
from deal basics to a client-ready diligence workflow
Core Areas Covered
Eight areas, taught across eight modules.
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Open to anyone
building a career in M&A, corporate law or transaction advisory, including:
- Law Students (UG & PG)
- Young Lawyers & Corporate Associates
- Company Secretaries & CAs moving into transactions
- In-house Counsels, Compliance and Deal Support Professionals
Esteemed Mentors
Learn from practitioners at leading law firms and transaction practices.
Parth Singh
Partner,
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
Dr. Praveen Tripathi
Registrar, Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur
Thanuja Palla
Partner,
Hammurabi & Solomon Partners
Rachana Rautray
Technology &
Media Specialist Counsel
Abhisshek Singlla
Partner,
IC RegFin Legal
Mahak Khanna
Partner,
Antares Legal
Agastya Shukla
Legal Operations &
AI Consultant
Eight Modules, from Deal Basics to a Client-Ready Diligence Workflow
8 live sessions across 4 weekends, with AI applied throughout and a dedicated AI workflows module.
- Deal forms: merger, demerger, slump sale, asset purchase, share purchase
- Control, material influence and minority positions
- Parties and mandates, buy-side vs sell-side
- Distressed M&A: IBC route, Section 29A, resolution plan acquisitions
- Preliminary documents: NDA, standstill, term sheet, exclusivity
- Signing to closing, conditionality and timelines
- Schemes under Sections 230 to 233 and the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026
- Decriminalisation and its effect on reps, warranties and indemnity
- CCI: Deal Value Threshold, substantial business operations test, green channel, 150-day review
- Gun-jumping and the relevant turnover penalty base
- SAST triggers: 25%, creeping acquisition, control, open-offer sizing
- SAST Amendment 2025: Independent Registered Valuers, SEBI-ordered valuation
- FDI mapping: sectoral caps, insurance opening, Press Note 3 relaxation
- FEMA, NDI pricing, cross-border mergers under Section 234
- Income-tax Act, 2025: what changed from the 1961 Act
- Section 116: loss carry-forward capped, transitional treatment
- Tax neutrality, indirect transfer, GAAR, stamp duty
- Valuation and acquisition finance: IBBI valuers, RBI framework 2026
- Scoping: red-flag vs full-scope vs confirmatory, materiality thresholds
- DD request list and follow-up rounds
- VDR management: indexing, access tiers, Q&A logs, privilege
- Corporate and secretarial: cap table, approvals, registers, SBO
- Contracts: change of control, assignment, MAC, termination
- Litigation, tax, regulatory and employment exposure, quantification
- DPDP readiness against the November 2026 and May 2027 milestones
- Pricing the DPDP gap into CPs, price adjustment or indemnity
- Cybersecurity, CERT-In and breach history in the lookback period
- IP chain of title and open-source licence contamination
- AI assets: model provenance, training-data rights, LLM vendor terms
- EU AI Act exposure and Indian AI governance
- Drafting the DD report: structure, risk rating, qualifications
- Red flags into deal terms: CPs, price adjustment, escrow, walk-away
- SPA architecture: reps, disclosure schedules, covenants, caps, baskets
- W&I insurance and its effect on the indemnity negotiation
- Closing mechanics and post-closing covenants
- Sequencing CCI, NCLT, FDI and SEBI timelines
- Workspace and guardrails across Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini: anonymisation, client consent, verification
- Grounded deal corpus in NotebookLM: data room and regulations, queried with citations
- Contract review at scale in Claude: clause extraction, anomaly flagging, SPA redlining, DD report drafting
- Structured deliverables in ChatGPT and Gemini: request lists, issue trackers, risk matrices, CP checklists
- Target and regulatory awareness in Perplexity: promoter checks, CCI and SEBI order tracking
- The professional stack and its limits: Kira, Luminance, Harvey, Spellbook, VDR-native AI
- Post-closing execution: filings, novation, employee transition, licences
- Integration failures and disputed indemnity claims
- Scoping diligence and transaction support as a paid engagement
- Career pathways: firms, in-house, PE/VC, transaction advisory, IBC practice
- Building the profile: deal CV, sample DD report and issue tracker
Everything that ships with the course
Feedback from Learners of Previous Courses
across 4 weekends
Course Dates
Mode · Live via Zoom
Session Duration · each
Choose the plan
that fits you best
Advanced [Recommended]
- ₹5,999
- ₹3,999
- Curated Course Notes (100+ Pages)
- The M&A Prompt Library (200+ Prompts)
- The Due Diligence Toolkit
- The Mock Data Room (with Solved Key)
- The Deal Execution Playbook
- The Recruiter & Employer Contact List
- The 1 to 5 Year Career Roadmap
- Lifetime Access to Recorded Lectures
- Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate from IALA
- Live Q&A with Experts
Basic
- ₹3,999
- ₹2,999
- Curated Course Notes (100+ Pages)
- The M&A Prompt Library (200+ Prompts)
- The Due Diligence Toolkit
- The Mock Data Room (with Solved Key)
- The Deal Execution Playbook
- The Recruiter & Employer Contact List
- The 1 to 5 Year Career Roadmap
- Lifetime Access to Recorded Lectures
- Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate from IALA
- Live Q&A with Experts
Frequently asked questions
Still unsure? Reach the team below — we reply on email and the student helpline.
Law students, young lawyers, corporate associates, and company-secretary, CA and in-house professionals building a career in M&A, corporate law or transaction advisory. No prior transaction experience is required.
8 live sessions across 4 weekends, running from 24 October to 15 November 2026.
All sessions are online and live via Zoom, fully interactive, with the chance to ask questions directly to the experts.
Yes. Recording access is provided after every session, and Advanced Plan participants receive lifetime access to all recordings.
No. The course starts from deal foundations and builds up to a client-ready diligence workflow, so beginners and career-changers can follow throughout.
A dedicated module teaches AI workflows for deal work, using Claude, NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity for contract review, data-room analysis, diligence deliverables and drafting, with a focus on client consent, anonymisation and verification. AI is applied across other modules too.
You get a set of 30 realistic deal documents with planted red flags, plus a solved key, so you can practise running diligence end to end and check your findings against the model answers.
Yes. On successful completion you receive an Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate in Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence & AI from IALA.
The Basic Plan (₹2,999) includes the live sessions, live Q&A and the certificate. The Advanced Plan (₹3,999) adds lifetime recordings and the full resource bundle: Curated Notes, the M&A Prompt Library, the Due Diligence Toolkit, the Mock Data Room, the Deal Execution Playbook, the Recruiter List and the Career Roadmap.
No. The course does not guarantee placement, but its practical toolkit, mock data room, recruiter list and career roadmap are designed to meaningfully strengthen your profile for deal roles.
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