Sale of a Business Letter of Engagement – Accountant Acting as Agent Only May 2024

This template letter sets out the basis on which the accountants are to act merely as transmission agents of company/group information to external third party professional advisers, regarding the sale of a company/group. The accountants acting, merely as transmission agents, and are not providing a valuation service nor are they expressing any opinion or carrying out any verification work whatsoever, on the information being passed on. The work does not come within the terms of the Investment Intermediaries Act, 1995.

[This letter often accompanies the “Specimen Release Letter to Prospective Purchaser and Investigating Accountant May 2022′ and the ‘Specimen client authorisation letter – May 2022]