Requests by stage
Oldest open request 23 days 9 requests need clarification Lease assignment schedules due Oct 9
Where the 142 diligence requests for Corran Mill Bakery stand, who chases each one, and what the seller must send and by when, starting with the lease assignment schedules for the three bakery sites. Prepared by Teodoro Quintanilla, paralegal at Ashcombe Varley LLP, for Henrik Dahlberg and the Solenne Foods deal team. Imogen Varley, partner, decides which items are legally sufficient and which are cleared. Status on Monday, September 28, 2026; issued Thursday, October 1, 2026.
Of the 142 requests made to the seller, 118 have been received, 97 are lawyer reviewed and 84 are cleared. Nine of the received requests need clarification before anyone can review them.
The chase list
Every request the firm is chasing has an owner, a status, a due date and a count of the days it has been open. Read the Needs clarification rows first: each one is waiting on a person outside the firm, and the next step says what that person must send.
Two of the requests belong to the Solenne acquisition and its companion matter:
| Record | Status | Owner | Due | Days open | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease assignment schedules for the three bakery sites | Needs clarification | Teodoro Quintanilla | Oct 9 | 23 | Receive the lease assignment schedules by Oct 9 |
| Supplier agreement intake facts | Requested | Darius Okonkwo | Oct 6 | 4 | Receive the three facts from Henrik Dahlberg by Oct 6 |
The supplier agreement intake item sits in this list because it is a request that must be answered before conflict review can run. It is missing 3 facts, including the counterparty legal name.
What each stage means
- Requested
- The request has gone to the seller or to Solenne with an owner, a source, a confidentiality rule and a reviewing lawyer.
- Received
- Something has arrived. A received request is not a satisfied request until a lawyer has looked at it.
- Needs clarification
- What arrived does not answer the request: a document is missing, unreadable, renamed or incomplete. The Next step column names exactly what is needed.
- Lawyer reviewed
- The reviewing lawyer has read the item and recorded a view on it.
- Cleared
- Imogen Varley has decided the item is legally sufficient for this deal. Only a lawyer clears a request.
Which areas are oldest
Each bar shows the days since the oldest uncleared request in that area was made. Leases and real estate is the oldest at 23 days, and no other area is past 14.
The nine requests that need clarification
Counts are taken from the request list on Sep 28. The oldest open request in each area is the figure from the chart above.
| Area | Needing clarification | Oldest open request | Owner | What the seller must send | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leases and real estate | 3 | 23 days | Teodoro Quintanilla | Assignment schedules for each of the three sites | Oct 9 |
| Customer contracts | 2 | 14 days | Teodoro Quintanilla | Signed copies with all amendments | Oct 7 |
| Employment | 1 | 11 days | Philomena Trevelyan | Complete list of manager contracts | Oct 8 |
| Food safety and regulatory | 1 | 9 days | Teodoro Quintanilla | Latest inspection reports for each site | Oct 8 |
| Supplier contracts | 1 | 8 days | Philomena Trevelyan | Contract terms for the flour supplier | Oct 9 |
| Finance and tax | 1 | 7 days | Philomena Trevelyan | Tax filing confirmations | Oct 9 |
Weekly chase steps
The chase runs on the same rhythm every week, so the seller's advisers know when to expect it.
- Mon Sep 28: status taken
- Tue Sep 29: chase list sent to the seller's advisers
- Thu Oct 1: Henrik presses the seller on the schedules
- Mon Oct 5: status taken again
- Fri Oct 9: lease assignment schedules due
This week's chase
- Send the chase list to the seller's advisers. Owner: Teodoro Quintanilla, Sep 29done
- Press the seller for the three lease assignment schedules. Owner: Henrik Dahlberg, Oct 1open
- Receive the three facts for the supplier agreement intake. Owner: Darius Okonkwo, Oct 6open
- Take the status of all 142 requests again. Owner: Teodoro Quintanilla, Oct 5open
- Review the schedules and decide whether they are legally sufficient. Owner: Imogen Varley, after Oct 9open
The seller's file names are not evidence. A request is satisfied only when a lawyer has read the document that answers it.
Cleared requests
The count below is the one the deal team sees at the top of every weekly status.
Who is on this list
- Teodoro QuintanillaParalegal, Ashcombe Varley LLP, owns the weekly chase
- Imogen VarleyPartner, Ashcombe Varley LLP, decides legal sufficiency and clearance
- Henrik DahlbergChief financial officer, Solenne Foods, presses the seller