Response to the Covid pandemic will hopefully cause lasting change.

The world of healthcare has been turned upside down. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken healthcare systems across the globe to breaking point, with hospitalization rates never before seen and hundreds of thousands of fatalities. While the immediate crisis was characterized by lack of personal protective equipment, ICU equipment and diagnostic kits, the focus has now turned onto the need for effective therapeutics and prophylactic vaccines.

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.

The benefits of a virtual data room (VDR) aren’t new to dealmakers. When it comes to promoting company interests, VDRs are an efficient, cost-effective and strategic way for buyers and sellers to not only cross the finish line, but to win.

Mergers and acquisition cycle within cybersecurity is set to result in a new high for volume. At its current pace, cybersecurity M&A in the U.S. will just barely eclipse the prior high of 145 closed transactions and hit 148, while deal value is already at a near-record value of $33.2 billion.

Women are playing an increasingly prominent role in dealmaking across the private capital markets, from sourcing investment targets to performing due diligence and shepherding transactions to close.

Last year, private equity firms with at least one current female partner topped out at a record 333 on the back of 5% compound annual growth globally since 2006.

Venue is our highly secure data room platform that allows you to confidently share critical information in real time.