Deals are complicated and the life of a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) professional is not simple. A typical transaction involves multiple global parties accessing confidential data from multiple locations, as well as significant time pressure from all parties. M&A advisers are responsible for making the deal happen, facilitating the agreement of the parties, and closing the transaction. There is no such thing as a simple

Sharing documents online is second nature to most of us. We need to share documents to demonstrate the work we have done, to get comments and feedback, to enable us to collaborate with our colleagues, partners, and consultants, and sometimes to get our boss to sign, scan and send us back the document so that we can record another successful sale. Whatever the purpose, I

Investment bankers play a key role in most Virtual Data Rooms. Their role in matching companies and assets with bidders and driving the M&A transaction is critical to make deals happen. Investment bankers normally create significant value to their clients, especially when they focus on one specific industry for many years and are able to read and sometimes even set M&A trends. Based on fourteen years

Physical data rooms are quickly being replaced by virtual data rooms, partly because of the complex procedures that are necessary to protect the information held in these rooms. Having confidential deal information in a specific location means that the parties in the deal need to travel to and from the location each time they view documents, which also results in high costs associated with transport,

Your data rooms are all set up and you’re ready to enter the due diligence stage of your merger or acquisition. As was the case in the pre-due diligence phase, the actions depend on whether the process is driven by the buyer or the seller.   In the third in our series of posts on the M&A life cycle, we’ll take a look at both

There are some critical differences between Dropbox and Virtual Data Rooms. Dropbox revolutionized how we share documents online. Being the pioneer, it proved that one can easily store, sync and share files across devices with ease. They led the way to a slew of other providers such as Google Drive, Microsoft’s Skydrive, iCloud and Box. With all of these services already available why do Virtual

Si quieres saber cómo simplificar un proceso de Due Diligence seguramente sea porque en breve tendrás que afrontar uno. Y, como sabes, las fusiones y adquisiciones de empresas (M&A en inglés) son procesos que conllevan una gran cantidad de costes, esfuerzos y horas. Una de sus mayores complejidades radica en la información confidencial que se ha de compartir entre diferentes partes. Enormes cantidades de documentos

Muchas empresas necesitan un data room y una plataforma para compartir archivos de forma segura. Mientras algunos eligen seguir haciendo las cosas como hasta ahora, en data rooms físicos, otros muchos están descubriendo que para las operaciones de M&A, los data room virtuales ofrecen muchas más ventajas, por lo que sería absurdo no adoptar esta tecnología. 1) Eficiencia  Los data rooms virtuales ahorran tiempo, aumentan

Due diligence is a term widely used in the business world. It’s requirement as a normal activity in business has spurred the need for due diligence data rooms. In this article we are going to talk about what due diligence is, when does it happen, it’s history and how technology has influenced the process.