# kaal:claim:2811718-018

**Claim.** Successful claims based on lacking investor due diligence typically require a complete failure to perform due diligence despite explicit promises to perform it; promising due diligence and then conducting none except in isolated incidents is actionable misrepresentation.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- private fund due diligence litigation
- explicit promise to perform due diligence

**Source quote.**

> Successful lawsuits in the context of lacking IDD typically require a complete lack of due diligence despite explicit promises to perform such due diligence.90 Promising to conduct due diligence and then failing to conduct any (except in isolated incidents), is actionable misrepresentation.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Private Fund Investor Due Diligence – Evidence from 1995 to 2015* (2016), III.B.1. Legal Standards, page 32

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Investor Due Diligence – Evidence from 1995 to 2015 (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811718

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** legal-standards, misrepresentation, liability-threshold, investor-due-diligence

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