Course Details

This session on due diligence focusses on revisiting and emphasising the key reasons for due diligence. It’s important for practitioners to avoid the danger of mechanically ticking boxes, especially when large amounts of money can be at stake. This short session will identify the key reasons for due diligence and how practitioners can keep on top of the resulting issues by staying connected to their clients. 

In this session, Cormac Lucey covers the following:

  • The theory of due diligence
  • The secret opportunity due diligence offers
  • Pitfalls that due diligence can identify
  • How to react when a pitfall emerges
  • Why you need to stay very close to your client


CPD Course Speaker

Finance Lecturer & Economics Columnist

Cormac Lucey

Cormac Lucey teaches finance, at post-graduate level, at the IMI, UCD, TCD and Chartered Accountants Ireland.

He is also a commentator on economic affairs both on broadcast media and through his weekly columns with The Sunday Times (Irish edition).

He served as a special adviser to Michael McDowell when he was Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) between 2002 and 2007. Cormac previously worked both in industry and in corporate finance in both Ireland in Germany.