Virtual Data Room Providers for
Accelerated M&A Due Diligence
Due Diligence—the deep-dive appraisal of a company’s assets and liabilities—is an essential part of any mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction. Due diligence allows the buyer to evaluate the commercial potential of a target company and assess its risks. The process typically involves exposing highly confidential information, such as customer lists, employee agreements, vendor contracts, and financial statements. A virtual data room facilitates the due diligence process by organizing due diligence documents and ensuring the complete security and confidentiality of all documents and data exposed in the process.
Choosing a state-of-the-art virtual data room provider is a critical decision as you ready your firm for a merger or acquisition. A seamless due diligence process will not only increase valuation but can also be the difference between a deal that succeeds and one that fails.
ShareVault provides the ideal platform for securely presenting a company's due diligence materials during an M&A transaction. ShareVault’s industry-leading features speed the process with tools that help the team throughout the process, from initial marketing phases to potential buyers, through to post-term sheet due diligence and even post-merger integration. ShareVault’s security and built-in tools help you to:
- Organize and archive documents for review
- Collaborate on development of offers and other presentation documents
- Authorize access, with designations of who can view and what actions they can take (view only, download, print, etc.)
- Speed the document review phase
- Track document activity, with the ability to create a detailed audit trail
Best of all, ShareVault has deep experience in M&A due diligence, and its 24/7 support crew is ready to assist your team every step of the way.
Virtual Data Room Providers Key Benefits
Due Diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions can contain thousands of documents that need to be reviewed. Our content management and organization features make uploading, viewing, and managing the documents a breeze.
In addition to its 24/7 support team, ShareVault includes features that speed the due diligence document review process:
- ShareVault’s Due Diligence Checklist, a template that ensures you have all the documents you need is organized for an optimal presentation
- A quick and easy way to create folders
- Hierarchical tags, which allows a single copy of a document to appear in multiple locations
- Advanced search functions
- Authorization controls over access, with end-dates on access
- Authorization controls over usage, such as view only or the ability to restrict printing, downloading, taking screenshots, etc.
- Dynamic Watermarking to protect documents that are downloaded
- Ability to create Audit Reports of all activity, a necessary function during regulatory reviews
With these and other advanced data room features, ShareVault ensures a fast and smooth due diligence process, for seller and buyer alike.
For a better understanding of how easily ShareVault can improve your next M&A transaction check out our demo:
ShareVault M&A Due Diligence Webinars and White Papers
We frequently partner with M&A experts to produce webinars and white papers on M&A best practices. To learn more, please visit our M&A Best Practices Series page.
