The financial due diligence process is critical to the success of a merger or acquisition, and there's a lot more to the phrase than you might think. Review the transaction details of M&A due diligence to make sure everything is on point to happen by the timetable of the deal.

Mergers and acquisitions promise to create value for the business, but they are only truly successful when there is an integration practice after the fact. Bringing together two distinct organisations often means there are cultural and operational differences that must be overcome to prevent friction and get the newly formed enterprise off on the right foot. With the right processes in place, companies undergoing a merger can ensure a smooth transition into the future, avoid unnecessary complications and maintain a high level of morale among the rank-and-file. 

The adoption of technology for M&A due diligence has already been on the rise since the pre-Covid times. The Covid-19 global pandemic has forced dealmakers globally to accelerate the adoption of technology such as drones, cloud-computing and AI to enable virtual due diligence. A growing number of M&A professionals understand and appreciate the benefits of technology for their transactions, and advanced technologies such as cloud-based solutions is now allowing 24/7 access to crucial deal documents from anywhere in the world.

Venue’s Data Vault empowers teams to share sensitive materials internally and with third parties in a secure, cost-effective environment. Whether you’re managing your content in between deals, or collaborating with external partners, Data Vault makes it easy to upload, store, manage, and monitor access to your company’s confidential files with industry-leading technology.

Uncompromising security sets us apart

Data Vault is ideal for any organization that wants to manage their files with the highest levels of security, usability, and efficiency:

Dr. Enoch Kariuki’s impressive professional journey started as a pharmacist followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Bristol-Myers Squibb. After his time at BMS, he earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and went on to work on Wall Street as an investment banker and private equity executive in the area of life sciences. Throughout this period, he had come to know and rely upon DFIN’s Venue virtual deal room platform, which is why in 2018, as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at biotech Synthorx, Dr.

Introducing A New Normal for Clinical Trials

In early March 2020, when the first wave of COVID-19 rolled into the continental U.S., leaders from every industry were forced to abandon business as usual and embrace new strategies and operational practices. For some, these adjustments are stopgaps that will be dismissed when the pandemic subsides. For others, like Leading BioSciences, Inc. (LBS), an emergency pivot to a Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) tool turned out to be a process game changer now here to stay.

Transform the way your organization adapts to rapidly changing compliance standards

Venue’s data privacy assessment tool transforms the way that organizations adapt to rapidly changing compliance standards around the world. Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) is the first to harness the power of intelligent technology to analyze the liability of your data room and reduce exposure. Mitigate risk 91% faster with Venue’s data privacy assessment and auto-redaction capabilities — saving time and effort.

Recently, a surge in AI-powered virtual data rooms (VDRs) have proved helpful in optimizing due diligence tasks like redaction. Data redaction tools have emerged to remove key terms quickly and relatively easily, saving sellers time and energy. Where these tools fall short, however, is in their ability to eliminate much of the manual effort still needed to structure and guide how information is redacted.

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May 2018, companies around the globe have been struggling to understand and meet the standards of this regulation, while additional legislation around the world continues to evolve and new policies are passed into law.

Control and security
Most of us are familiar with file sharing sites, having used them in our personal lives.

These services allow users to create, store and share files in a cloud-based repository that syncs in real-time across all devices. Users have some control over who can access, share, download and edit files, but that’s mostly where the control starts and stops.