A California-based commercial real estate investment firm was competing to acquire a multi-tenant office property in the Denver metro area. The typical due diligence period for a deal like this runs around 90 days—time to review every lease, assess tenant risk, and build a complete picture of the income stream before committing capital.
They didn't have 90 days. The competitive dynamics of the deal gave them 48 hours to complete a full lease due diligence review and come to the table with a confident position—all while operating remotely from California, without setting foot in the property.
The stakes were high and the leases were anything but simple. Many dated back to the 1980s, with five to six amendments, subleases, and assignments layered on top of each original agreement. The firm needed to trace the full history of each tenancy and understand the current state of rights and obligations buried across decades of documentation: remaining lease durations, renewal and extension options, relocation rights, early termination provisions granted to tenants, and assignment rights retained by the landlord. Missing any one of these could mean inheriting unexpected vacancy risk, losing control of tenant placement, or overpaying for an income stream that wasn't as stable as it appeared.
Doing this manually—reading every lease line by line, building comparison matrices, flagging risk provisions would have taken weeks with a traditional team of paralegals.
The firm used Bryckel to turn what would normally be a weeks-long legal review into a 48-hour sprint. The platform delivered comprehensive abstracts document by document within each lease, giving the team instant clarity on every provision that mattered—duration, options, termination rights, relocation clauses, and assignment terms.
Bryckel also auto-generated reports organized by specific legal provisions, allowing the firm's principals, analysts, and advising law firm to quickly zero in on the risk areas that would make or break the deal. Rather than passing marked-up PDFs back and forth, the entire team collaborated directly inside Bryckel—reviewing, comparing, and annotating in real time.
The real advantage came during tenant interviews. As the team sat down with tenants to verify lease terms and assess occupancy intentions, they used Bryckel's chat functionality to interrogate the leases live—pulling up specific clauses, cross-referencing provisions, and asking follow-up questions on the spot. What would normally require a paralegal flipping through binders was happening in seconds.
Full lease due diligence completed in 48 hours—compressing what typically takes a 90-day runway into a single weekend.
Every material risk identified and priced in before the deadline—early termination exposure, tenant relocation rights, assignment flexibility, and legacy obligations spanning decades of amendments.
Executed entirely remotely from California, with principals, analysts, and outside counsel collaborating in parallel inside a single platform.
90% lower cost compared to a traditional due diligence process using outside legal teams and manual review.
