Why Kain Lawyers Searches with DDLoop
How Kain Lawyers made DDLoop the default for every deal
Hear from Gerry Cawson – Director and Co-Head of M&A (Private) at Kain Lawyers – on oversight, team leverage, and what changed once they switched to DDLoop for the firm's search needs.
Transaction specialists, pure and simple – one of the most active M&A teams in Australia's mid-market.
Kain Lawyers advises exclusively on transactions – Private and Public M&A, Equity and Debt Capital Markets, Investment Funds, and Property & Real Asset Transactions.
The firm is consistently ranked as one of the most active M&A teams in Australia's mid-market, acting for private equity, venture capital and corporate clients.
“Once people used DDLoop, they did not want to go back. The old way of doing searches felt immediately and obviously inferior by comparison.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
Why switch to DDLoop?
The old way felt immediately and obviously inferior
It wasn't one change, but several – all tied to how due diligence was run in practice. Before DDLoop, searches followed a familiar but inefficient pattern: multiple systems, disconnected outputs, and a heavy reliance on manual handling.
That workflow burdened junior lawyers with manual report compilation – slowing work, introducing risk, and pulling them away from higher-value tasks.
DDLoop brings structure and a single place for deal data – making it easier for the team to move quickly without constant coordination, and removing friction at senior levels.
“DDLoop pulls the search results so our juniors spend their time on analysis and meaningful review work rather than data entry – which is both better for the team and better for our clients.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
“DDLoop's filtering and comparison functions make it easier to distil the key points in diligence. It is part and parcel of how we work and adds value as an efficient, accurate and easy to use tool for all lawyers.”
– Arin Harman, Senior Associate, Banking & Finance
“I'm not being pulled in to resolve process issues or chase down whether searches have been run or updated – DDLoop handles that transparency for us, which frees me up to focus on advice rather than administration.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
Real Impact
More visibility, lower risk
“DDLoop gives the whole team a clear picture of the corporate group. On mid-market M&A transactions, where you are often dealing with layered corporate structures, that visibility is genuinely valuable. Everyone is looking at the same information, which reduces the risk of things being missed.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
Live insights on kick-off calls
“On kick-off calls, we can now pull up search data for all relevant entities on the fly – that is a capability we simply did not have before. We can speak to the client's real position with confidence from the very start of a matter.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
Completion without surprises
“Completion day searches used to be a time-pressured exercise; now we go into completion with confidence and there are far fewer surprises at the worst possible moment. DDLoop makes it significantly faster to run all required searches, and crucially, it flags changes – whether to PPSR registrations or to company signatories.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
Clean work product, faster for the client
“Rather than having someone manually transcribe search results into annexure tables, DDLoop produces a clean, exportable output that goes straight into our branded Word report for review. Reviewers have confidence in the accuracy of those tables, and we get to a client-ready work product significantly faster.”
– Gerry Cawson, Director & Co-Head of M&A (Private)
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