GIS (General Information Sheet)

GIS (General Information Sheet) — the corporation’s annual SEC filing disclosing shareholders and their holdings, directors, officers, and capital structure. In diligence it answers the first question — does the seller control the shares he’s selling, and who else must sign? — and its filing history doubles as a compliance pulse-check (a corporation that skips GIS filings skips other things too). Pulled from SEC records, not from the seller.

First used in: 4.3 · PH due diligence: acquisition II