Licensing
Premium virtual data room solutions that support partnerships and out-licensing deals, helping to maximize asset value while protecting valuable intellectual property.
Why work with us on your next out-licensing deal?
Sterling provides the secure, controlled environment you need to present your opportunity professionally to sophisticated partners and enable their due diligence, while managing risk, maintaining negotiating leverage and keeping options open to maximize value. You can stand up an out-licensing or partnership project quickly, using our bulk upload, auto-indexing and AI-powered tools and 24/7 support team to help structure the data room, organize clinical data, regulatory history and technical documentation, and apply permissions that match your disclosure strategy. Advanced redaction capabilities support selective disclosure, allowing you to share the information partners need while protecting patient data, trade secrets and other highly sensitive content, and if discussions end you retain the ability to revoke access instantly and preserve your position.
Our platform is built for cross-border licensing. Multilingual interfaces and support make it easy to invite global partners into the data room, and built-in translation features and workflows help remove language barriers so interest is not limited by geography. Online Q&A routes partner questions efficiently to the right experts, maintains a clear audit trail and prevents disclosure drift across multiple counterparties. You can run parallel licensing discussions without parties seeing each other, track exactly what each potential partner reviewed and use engagement insights to negotiate from a position of strength. When your IP is your most valuable asset, Sterling’s security architecture and control capabilities give you the confidence to pursue the partnerships that deliver the best outcome.
Maintain control over sensitive IP and data
Granular permission controls let you share specific information with each potential partner – Phase 2 results with one party, manufacturing processes with another, all based on discussion stage and partner profile. Information rights management protects clinical documents and technical specifications, view-only controls prevent unauthorized downloads, and instant access revocation ensures departing partners can't retain your IP if negotiations end.
Run parallel discussions confidentially
Create separate data rooms for different potential partners, ensuring parties don't know about competing discussions. Our permission architecture creates completely isolated environments, protecting your negotiating leverage by maintaining options. Analytics show you which partners are most engaged with clinical efficacy versus safety data, technical capabilities versus market applications – revealing their strategic interests.
Demonstrate value while protecting yourself
Share proof-of-concept data, regulatory approvals and market validation that demonstrate asset value, while restricting next-generation compounds, detailed manufacturing processes or future indication plans that represent ongoing competitive advantages. Control exactly what each partner sees based on relationship stage and strategic alignment.
Track engagement to inform negotiations
Detailed analytics show which materials each potential partner examined and how long they spent on key sections – clinical results, intellectual property claims, regulatory pathways, market opportunity. Use engagement patterns to understand partner priorities, anticipate questions and identify which parties are conducting serious evaluation versus preliminary review. Negotiate from strength with insights into partner interest levels.
Prep your deal fast and stay compliant with built-in document review and approval.
Granular information rights management to keep you in control of what you share with bidders — and revoke access immediately.
Simple or advanced Q&A workflows that align to your deal process.
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Our automated redaction tool operates across the whole VDR, saving valuable time and costs preparing sensitive information for external review.
Built-in, automatic, side-by-side translation of VDR content between 300 language pairs keeps your cross-border deals moving.
Real-time dashboards and reports to keep you informed of deal activity and provide strategic intelligence on bidder behavior.
Sterling's unique, built-in AI engine embeds capabilities such as document classification and organization, gap analysis, anomaly detection and document-level Q&A intelligence into the VDR. Launch deals faster – cutting data room prep time from weeks to days – while allowing bidders and investors to complete due diligence more quickly, to close your transaction.
Prep your deal fast and stay compliant with built-in document review and approval.
Granular information rights management to keep you in control of what you share with bidders — and revoke access immediately.
Simple or advanced Q&A workflows that align to your deal process.
Our automated redaction tool operates across the whole VDR, saving valuable time and costs preparing sensitive information for external review.
Built-in, automatic, side-by-side translation of VDR content between 300 language pairs keeps your cross-border deals moving.
Real-time dashboards and reports to keep you informed of deal activity and provide strategic intelligence on bidder behavior.
Sterling's unique, built-in AI engine embeds capabilities such as document classification and organization, gap analysis, anomaly detection and document-level Q&A intelligence into the VDR. Launch deals faster – cutting data room prep time from weeks to days – while allowing bidders and investors to complete due diligence more quickly, to close your transaction.
High-touch multilingual 24/7 support for licensing, partnership and IP transactions
Licensing deals – especially in pharmaceuticals and life sciences – involve highly technical data, complex regulatory histories and confidential know-how. Sterling supports licensors and licensees from initial evaluation and data sharing through negotiations and final agreement.
We help you structure data rooms around how scientific, regulatory and commercial teams work, build indexes and folder layouts for clinical trial data, regulatory filings, chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) documentation, IP and contracts, upload and classify sensitive documents, and set precise permissions so different counterparties and experts only see what they need. Our team can configure Q&A workflows that route technical questions to the right subject-matter experts, create specialist teams for R&D, regulatory, legal and commercial functions, and invite and train external partners who may be less familiar with data room platforms.
This support is provided by our multilingual in-house team, available 24/7/365 via phone or email, with a dedicated deal manager assigned to your licensing project. Unlike others, we never outsource night or weekend coverage to third party generic call centers.
As the transaction moves toward execution, we deliver encrypted deal archives and comfort letters quickly and internationally, giving you a robust record of disclosures that supports ongoing collaboration, milestone events and any future audits or disputes.
