Checklist

Post-closing integration

After closing the integration begins. This checklist helps you to work through the most important steps after completion in a structured way.

With closing the transaction is legally completed, but the actual work begins afterwards. Registers must be updated, authorisations changed, contracts and employees informed and systems merged. In parallel, the earn-out and warranty deadlines continue to run.

This checklist is a guide and does not replace an assessment of the individual case. It helps you to structure the integration and not to lose sight of the deadlines.

Work through the integration steps. You can tick off each point; the status is stored on your device. Use the buttons to print or reset the list.

What matters legally

Changes in management and shareholders only take effect towards third parties upon registration in the company register (§§ 10, 11 UGB). In a transfer of business, employment relationships generally remain in place and pass to the acquirer (AVRAG).

Warranty and limitation periods from the purchase contract continue to run after closing; if missed, claims can lapse. Which steps are paramount after completion depends on the structure, industry and the agreements of the individual case.

This checklist is a general guide to the Austrian legal position (as of June 2026) and makes no claim to completeness or legal certainty. It does not replace advice in the individual case and is not a finished legal document.

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