Transactional attorneys, what is the most egregious behavior that you have seen from attorneys representing the other side? We always hear about litigators being petty AF.

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Here is mine: waiting until the week of/eve of closing to provide redlines rejecting 99% of your comments or changing major business terms

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This drives me crazy

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I know you asked for the worst lawyer behavior, but I was an associate on a buy-side deal team when the sell-side financial advisor basically tried to bribe the buy-side financial and legal advisors to keep the deal moving despite undisclosed issues coming to light so that the sell-side advisor would earn a success fee. Partner on the deal said she’d seen the same thing done by the same advisory firm on another deal decades earlier, too.

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Not agreeing to waive next day delivery of minor notices, etc. under the governing purchase agreement.

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Wasting time arguing about changes that don't matter - the defined term should be Property instead of Collateral, or vice versa. Focus on the deal. Also people who don't renumber correctly after changing a list/section.

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OC made significant changes to the agreement and did not blackline all of them. Our firm had to purchase a comparison software.

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