Should we find out all we can about a possible investor? This very much depends on his positioning with us. If we’re dealing with an important investor who has more than 10% of the company after the inversion, then yes, we should investigate their behaviour in other types of inversions that are similar.
For this, the easiest way is to go to the CEO’s of the companies where they have already invested and ask how they like, or dislike being with them. A “due diligence” in full force, investigating their accounts etc., can spoil the operation and is only recommendable when we have plenty of offers and want to eliminate the worst investors.
In any case, when it’s about a traditional investor vehicle, there’s a lot of indirect information that we can get from their own Web sites and of the official notifications that they are obliged to make before the official Organizations like the CNMV, as is the case in Spain.
