As you prepare your firm for reviewing the due diligence documents for a potential acquisition target, you’ll need to determine which data room to choose. The right data room can help you accelerate the transaction and track the due diligence process, while keeping a detailed audit trail. ShareVault provides the ideal platform for reviewing your target’s due diligence materials during a buy-side M&A transaction, providing important benefits throughout the entire process, from initial document review through to post-merger integration.

To learn how Varian Medical recently used ShareVault for several buy-side M&A transactions, click here: Varian Medical adopts ShareVault™ virtual data room for acquisition due diligence

Find documents quickly through indexed full-text search
Your entire due diligence team will be able to instantly find documents that relate to relevant key words. Only ShareVault provides relevance ranking, in-place document synopses and zoomable first page thumbnails for each search result, so users can quickly and easily isolate the documents that contain the information sought. With its powerful search capabilities, ShareVault helps your due diligence team more quickly answer the questions they have about your company, compressing the timeframe of the document review phase.

Bi-directional publishing and asymmetric inter-group privacy
You need your acquisition target’s employees to be able to publish documents directly into the data room, but you need to be sure that you don’t reveal private information to your target. ShareVault allows for bi-directional publishing and asymmetric inter-group privacy so that you can quickly and easily get all the content uploaded and tagged by your acquisition target, and then assign the appropriate teams to review each section of dataroom containing the documents that respond to each question in your due diligence questionnaire.

Quickly create a due diligence questionnaire so that the target's documents are well-organized and easy to review
Have your target place their documents in a structured hierarchy that streamlines the due diligence process. Only ShareVault allows you to structure your documents using tags, rather than folders. Often in a buy-side scenario, the same document will answer multiple questions in the due diligence questionnaire. With ShareVault, your targe just applies multiple tags (questions) to the document. No other data room provider offers this simple yet powerful capability:

• No need to replicate files in multiple locations
• No paying for additional pages in replicated documents
• No need to combine document access statistics for multiple instances of the same file

Accelerate the due diligence phase
ShareVault supports PDF streaming, so that documents open to the first page instantly, even if there are many thousands of pages. Most competing virtual data rooms suggest that you break up large documents into smaller volumes so that they’ll load more quickly, but with ShareVault you can keep document review moving fast without getting bogged-down with large documents.

Respond efficiently and securely to questions from your due diligence teams
The easy-to-use ShareVault Q&A module further streamlines the due diligence process by allowing your due diligence team to efficiently ask questions of the target, allowing your corporate development department to act as a moderator. Questions can be asked securely from right within the data room and then, with the optional Q&A workflow feature the corporate development team can route the questions to the appropriate expert(s) within the target’s organization, and then back to the Q&A moderator for approval before posting the final response to your internal team. You can also change the privacy level on each question, so that information pertaining to sensitive matters, such as Human Resources, can be tightly controlled.

Prepare quickly for due diligence
As you work with your acquisition target to prepare for due diligence, the last thing you need is a complex and lengthy process for preparing your data room. ShareVault customers are consistently impressed by the intuitive simplicity of inviting users, creating the due diligence structure, uploading documents and setting permissions / policies. From our drag-and-drop user/group management tool, to the unique in-browser drag-and-drop uploader and automated PDF conversion pipeline, ShareVault has been designed for rapid, streamlined deployment.

Find documents quickly through indexed full-text search
Your users will be able to instantly find documents that relate to relevant key words. Only ShareVault provides relevance ranking, in-place document synopses and zoomable first page thumbnails for each search result, so users can quickly and easily isolate the documents that contain the information sought. With its powerful search capabilities, ShareVault helps prospective buyers to more quickly answer their own questions about your company, compressing the timeframe of the document review phase.

Gain valuable insight into the due diligence process through detailed reporting
As the due diligence process unfolds, having a clear picture of how the buy-side teams are spending their time in ShareVault can provide key insights into their level of interest, and can help you understand their areas of concern. The ShareVault reporting module provides high-level metrics such as number of pages viewed and/or amount of time spent by each user group in each section of the data room, as well as detailed metrics such as specific pages viewed, and the amount of time spent within each document by each user. The combination of both fine-grained and summary information with interactive filtering and intuitive query tools, allows you to quickly and easily answer any question you might have about the buy-side user activity within your ShareVault.

Count on our high reliability and 24/7/365 support team
With over 99.9% up-time, you can be confident that your documents can be accessed from anywhere in the world, around the clock. Our 24/7 support hotline is answered by experts with the ability to not only respond to technical questions, but also to provide pro-active, knowledgeable advice on how to use ShareVault to streamline your project. Each member of our support team can also initiate a remote screen- sharing session so they can work virtually by your side to answer your questions, provide advice or resolve an issue.

Get started early, and be ready for your transaction
Ask any experienced CFO or Investment Banker about when to get started preparing for your M&A transactions, and you'll get the same answer: "As early as possible." Being prepared for due diligence is easily done using ShareVault Ever Ready, a special configuration that gives you a very affordable way to get your documents organized and secured in a ShareVault, so when you're ready to start your transaction, the due diligence can start right away, without delay.

With the experience of hundreds of transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, you can rely on ShareVault to securely share the due diligence documents for your next buy side M&A transaction.

Choosing the right virtual data room is just one of the important decisions that you will make as you ready your firm for sale. The right data room can help you accelerate the transaction, while assuring the security of critical business documents. ShareVault provides the ideal platform for securely presenting a company's due diligence materials during an M&A transaction, providing important benefits throughout the entire process, from initial marketing phases to potential buyers, through to post-term sheet due diligence.

Present your due diligence materials in a well-organized, professional structure
Put your company in the best possible light by placing your documents in a structured hierarchy that streamlines the due diligence process. Only ShareVault allows you to structure your documents using tags, rather than folders. Often, the same document needs to be placed in multiple locations in the due diligence index. With ShareVault, just apply multiple tags to the document. No other data room provider offers this simple yet powerful capability:

• No need to replicate files in multiple locations
• No paying for additional pages in replicated documents
• No need to combine document access statistics for multiple instances of the same file

Secure your valuable information without slowing down document access
ShareVault automatically converts your documents to an encrypted PDF format that provides the industry standard document viewing experience, including continuous scrolling and high-speed rendering. Some competing VDRs, because they are based on the dated TIFF document standard, will slow down document review due to sluggish page rendering, lack of continuous scrolling and inability to view more than one page at a time. The PDF encryption used by ShareVault allows you to revoke access to any document at any time, even if the document has been downloaded. Sharevault also provides you with the ability to apply additional security attributes, including inhibiting document download, prohibiting printing, applying secure dynamic watermarks, identifying the user, and blocking screenshots.

Accelerate the due diligence phase
ShareVault supports PDF streaming, so that documents open to the first page instantly, even if there are many thousands of pages. Most competing virtual data rooms suggest that you break up large documents into smaller volumes so that they’ll load more quickly, but with ShareVault you can keep document review moving fast without getting bogged-down with large documents.

Respond efficiently and securely to questions from potential buyers
The easy-to-use ShareVault Q&A facility further streamlines the due diligence process by optimizing the response to questions from your potential buyers. Questions can be asked privately from right within the data room, so that you and your team can easily respond from the centralized Q&A module. With the optional Q&A workflow feature, questions can be routed to the appropriate expert, and then back to the Q&A moderator for approval before posting the final response. You can also change the privacy level on each question so that other users can refer to questions that you have already answered.

Prepare quickly for due diligence
As you prepare for M&A due diligence, the last thing you need is a complex and lengthy process for preparing your data room. ShareVault customers are consistently impressed by the intuitive simplicity of inviting users, creating the due diligence structure, uploading documents and setting permissions / policies. From our drag-and-drop user/group management tool, to the unique in-browser drag-and-drop uploader and automated PDF conversion pipeline, ShareVault has been designed for rapid, streamlined deployment.

Find documents quickly through indexed full-text search
Your users will be able to instantly find documents that relate to relevant key words. Only ShareVault provides relevance ranking, in-place document synopses and zoomable first page thumbnails for each search result, so users can quickly and easily isolate the documents that contain the information sought. With its powerful search capabilities, ShareVault helps prospective buyers more quickly answer the questions they have about your company, compressing the timeframe of the document review phase.

Gain valuable insight into the due diligence process through detailed reporting
As the due diligence process unfolds, having a clear picture of how the buy-side teams are spending their time in ShareVault can provide key insights into their level of interest, and can help you understand their areas of concern. The ShareVault reporting module provides high-level metrics such as number of pages viewed and/or amount of time spent by each user group in each section of the data room, as well as detailed metrics such as specific pages viewed, and the amount of time spent within each document by each user. The combination of both fine-grained and summary information with interactive filtering and intuitive query tools, allows you to quickly and easily answer any question you might have about the buy-side user activity within your ShareVault.

Count on our high reliability and 24/7/365 support team
With over 99.9% up-time, you can be confident that your documents can be accessed from anywhere in the world, around the clock. Our 24/7 support hotline is answered by experts with the ability to not only respond to technical questions, but also to provide pro-active, knowledgeable advice on how to use ShareVault to streamline your project. Each member of our support team can also initiate a remote screen- sharing session so they can work virtually by your side to answer your questions, provide advice or resolve an issue.

Get started early, and be ready for your transaction
Ask any experienced CFO or Investment Banker about when to get started preparing for your M&A transactions, and you'll get the same answer: "As early as possible." Being prepared for due diligence is easily done using ShareVault Ever Ready, a special configuration that gives you a very affordable way to get your documents organized and secured in a ShareVault, so when you're ready to start your transaction, the due diligence can start right away, without delay.

With the experience of hundreds of transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, you can rely on ShareVault to securely share the due diligence documents for your next sell-side M&A transaction.

The use of the right data room can greatly accelerate the preparation for a company’s initial public offering (IPO) or secondary offering . An investment bank hired by the company will underwrite the offering and build a book of investors but must undertake detailed company due diligence in order to file the required SEC documents including the S1 document. An in depth review of the company’s due diligence documents by multiple third parties is essential to fairly disclose all material information for an investment decision by potential institutional and retail buyers. The data room is also invaluable in sharing due diligence documents with co-lead and syndicated investment bank partners to maximize investor demand and price.

Organize your corporate documents in a structured hierarchy for a professional presentation to the users of your due diligence materials
By organizing your documents according to a well-structured due diligence list, you make it easy for auditors, lawyers, consultants and internal investment bank employees to find relevant documents, and streamline the review process. Only ShareVault allows you to organize your documents using tags, rather than folders. Frequently, the same file needs to be placed in multiple locations in the due diligence index. With ShareVault, just apply multiple tags to the document. No other data room provider offers this simple, yet powerful, capability:

• No need to replicate files in multiple locations
• No paying for additional pages in replicated documents
• No need to combine document access statistics for multiple instances of the same file

Secure your valuable company information without slowing down document access
ShareVault automatically converts your documents to an encrypted PDF format that provides the industry standard document viewing experience, including continuous scrolling and high-speed rendering. Some competing VDRs, because they use the dated TIFF document standard, will slow down document review due to sluggish page rendering, lack of continuous scrolling and inability to view more than one page at a time. The PDF document encryption used by ShareVault allows you to revoke access to any document at any time, even if the document has been downloaded. Sharevault also provides you with the ability to apply additional security attributes, including inhibiting document download, preventing printing, applying secure dynamic watermarks, identifying the user, and blocking screenshots.

Accelerate the due diligence phase
ShareVault supports PDF streaming, so that documents open to the first page instantly, even if there are many thousands of pages. Most competing virtual data rooms suggest that you break up large documents into smaller volumes so that they’ll load more quickly, but with ShareVault you can keep document review moving quickly without getting bogged down with large documents.

Respond efficiently and securely to questions from multiple review particpants
The easy-to-use ShareVault Q&A facility further streamlines the due diligence process by optimizing the response to questions from your diligence groups. Questions can be asked privately from right within the data room so that you and your team can easily respond from the centralized Q&A module. With the optional Q&A workflow feature, questions can be routed to the appropriate expert, and then back to the Q&A moderator for approval before posting the final response. You can also change the privacy level on each question so that other users can refer to questions that you have already answered.

Prepare quickly for due diligence
As you prepare for corporate due diligence, the last thing you need is a complex and lengthy process for preparing your data room. ShareVault customers are consistently impressed by the intuitive simplicity of inviting users, creating the due diligence structure, uploading documents and setting permissions / policies. From drag-and-drop user/group management, to the unique in-browser drag-and-drop uploader and automated PDF conversion pipeline, ShareVault has been designed for rapid, streamlined deployment.

Find documents quickly through indexed full-text search
Your users will be able to instantly find documents that relate to relevant key words. Only ShareVault provides relevance ranking, in-place document synopses and zoomable first page thumbnails for each search result, so users can quickly and easily isolate the documents that contain the information sought. With its powerful search capabilities, ShareVault helps review teams quickly answer the questions they have about your the company, reducing the length of the document review phase.

Count on our high reliability and 24/7/365 support team
With over 99.9% up-time, you can be confident that your documents can be accessed from anywhere in the world, around the clock. Our 24/7 support hotline is answered by experts with the ability to not only respond to technical questions, but also to provide pro-active, knowledgeable advice on how to use ShareVault to streamline your project. Each member of our support team can also initiate a remote screen- sharing session so they can work virtually by your side to answer your questions, provide advice or resolve an issue.

Get started early, and be ready for your transaction
Ask any experienced CFO or Investment Banker about when to get started preparing for your public offering M&A transactions, and you’ll get the same answer: “As early as possible”. Being prepared for due diligence is easily done using ShareVault Ever Ready, a special configuration that gives you a very affordable way to get your documents organized and secured in a ShareVault, so when you’re ready to start your transaction, the due diligence can start right away, without delay.

With the experience of hundreds of transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, you can rely on ShareVault to securely share the due diligence documents for your next public offering transaction.

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