Prevent Data Leaks with View-Only Permissions

“John’s business sale is going well, with 4 companies showing strong interest in the data room. Little known to John, one of the companies, a competitor, is happily downloading details of all of John’s senior staff, including contracts and packages.”     “Jane is working on a big transaction, and sees that the firm is […]

Protect your deal with Multi-Factor Authentication

Data rooms hold super sensitive data. Unauthorised access could be disastrous. Strong cybersecurity means less worrying over people seeing something they shouldn’t, or sending things to people who shouldn’t see them… Enter MFA What is it? MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) aka 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) – (computer geeks do love their acronyms!) works by adding […]

Brexit & Your Data

Well a happy GDPR New Year! The EU and UK have agreed that its ok to keep sending personal data from the EU to the UK and vice versa – for now. This gives the EU 6 months to ratify the UK as an ‘adequate’ place for data, which I’m pretty sure will happen. This […]

How to do better M&A with Zoom and online document collaboration

Here’s an insightful 3 minute read from M&A expert Mona Sabet about how to help a virtual M&A deal using old fashioned long form writing plus online collaborative tools. “Slack, email, Zoom are poor substitutes for the kind of in-depth discussions a deal requires. The always-on-from-anywhere quality that makes these communication devices so convenient also […]

Schrems II, File Sharing, and Projectfusion

Following the Schrems II case, in July 2020, the EU ruled that ‘Privacy Shield’ – the legal way to transfer personal data to the US – was invalid, causing confusion amongst data controllers everywhere. This was the work of privacy advocate Max Schrems, who previously got ‘safe harbour’ revoked. These data transfers take place all […]

How to run your ISO audit with a Data Room, Zoom & Trello.

COVID just made having an ISO audit easier… So in the time of COVID, having an ISO audit just got a bit easier! Usually Auditors insist on rocking up and hanging out for days in your office. Now they can’t. Yay! ? Here’s a way to run your ISO audit with your advisor, remotely, using […]

Auto-numbering comes to Projectfusion!

Our brand new auto-numbering feature promises to make organising your files a lot quicker. Here’s a sneak peek of it in action! It will save your team hours, if not DAYS of time when prepping deals, we promise! Projectfusion now makes it incredibly easy to add huge numbers of files and have them indexed. This […]

Deals on ice?

As the coronavirus pandemic begins to ease off and allow for some level normality, mergers & acquisitions are happening again. The good news from analysts is that they expect a relatively quick (yet cautious) recovery. This means deals are likely to resume close to the level at which they were pre-COVID. A report from LexisNexis […]

Don’t Let COVID-19 Kill Your Deal

With COVID-19 causing unprecedented disruption to deals, time is of the essence. Those finding deals taking longer than they should risk lower valuations, and lower investor interest. This great article from CFO.com provides some best practices to make sure your deal gets done. There’s things like: Making sure communication is as clear as possible Listing […]