While four in five (81%) business leaders in the UK and the US feel they are performing better than their industry’s average on ESG issues over the past two years, there is much less confidence around their organisations’ corporate governance. In contrast, less than 30% of executives feel confident they are outperforming their industry peers on governance issues, such as internal controls, lobbying and board composition.

DFIN’s first quarter financial results, announced yesterday, indicate that our transformation into a software-centric company is shifting into high gear. Software sales represented 33% of total net sales in the quarter, the highest level in DFIN’s history. In addition, year-over-year sales growth for our software offerings was 15.8%, the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit software sales growth.

Find out how DFIN’s Venue® Virtual Data Room helped Lunit successfully complete its Series C and Pre-IPO fundraising rounds during 2019-2021, raising over US$110M to strengthen its position as a global leading AI-powered cancer diagnosis firm.

CHICAGO – May 3, 2022 – Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN), a leading global risk and compliance company, today announced that for the sixth consecutive year it has been named by Global M&A Network as “U.S.A. M&A Virtual Data Room Firm of the Year” for its Venue® solution. DFIN received this honor at the 13th annual special M&A Atlas Awards forum, held earlier this year. DFIN’s Venue Data Room (VDR) platform is designed to facilitate due diligence and eliminate risks that can compromise deals.

Making deals happens all the time in the oil and gas, power, and renewable energy sectors. Given the amount of highly confidential information involved — often including valuable trade secrets and IP — it’s important to be able to secure it throughout the process.

This is why Venue is the leading virtual data room for the energy industry. Using this platform’s enhanced security, companies within these verticals can share documents securely and safely without the risk of them falling into the wrong hands.

No sectors value confidentiality quite like healthcare, biotech, pharmaceuticals and life sciences. That’s why, when the time comes to concentrate on clinical trials, mergers and acquisitions, licensing agreements, and more, companies within these verticals trust Venue to be their healthcare virtual data room solution. This software enables secure sharing of documents to protect your information.

Our client, AprilBio, needed to confidentially connect with prospective licensees interested in licensing of its novel and well-differentiated asset which offers significant potential across a wide array of neuroimmune diseases. Information disclosed included proprietary and sensitive information such as preclinical data and exclusive R&D findings for new, potent therapies. Using a general-purpose file sharing service was deemed unacceptably risky.

Find out why AprilBio selected DFIN’s Venue® Virtual Data Room solution for this project.

This whitepaper explores how Venue virtual data rooms benefit from modern certifications, technology, and practices to help ensure application and data security for clients.

Topics include:

• DFIN Information Security Program
• Organizational controls for security
• Security controls applied to products
• The principle of “Security by Design”
• Our commitment to security considerations
• SOC2 Type II auditing and reporting
• ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification

Despite the pandemic, 2021 saw record-breaking deals across the world. It also ushered in a new era of deal-making that is virtual, thorough and takes new factors into account.

Global M&A Network gathered the following experts to discuss what the future holds for mergers and acquisitions:

New report projects growth in North America; continued interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance.