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Automation and digitisation of capital markets closing opinions
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Closing opinions are a familiar condition of capital markets and banking transaction closing. They provide independent legal assurance on matters such as entity status capacity authorisation validity binding effect enforceability conflicts consents governing law and reliance. These opinions are already relatively standardised in substance but their key legal conclusions and limitations are still expressed primarily in prose requiring manual extraction before they can be used in transaction and risk
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