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Private equity

Premium virtual data rooms built for M&A and capital raising that support the entire value creation cycle, from fundraise to portfolio company exit.

Trusted by private equity dealmakers

Financial sponsors trust Sterling Technology to deliver exceptional levels of service
on their most critical transactions.

Why private equity teams work with us

When exit opportunities emerge, your companies can launch competitive processes immediately, maximizing valuation and momentum. Our platform enables you to manage multiple portfolio companies efficiently, maintain consistent security standards, and provide the professional presentation that sophisticated buyers and LPs expect. With Sterling, you're always prepared to move quickly when markets align, without scrambling to organize information or compromise on security.

Private equity teams operate in a constant race against time – raising funds, managing portfolios and pursuing exits in markets that move fast and rarely wait.

Success depends on readiness: having accurate data, disciplined governance and deal-ready assets long before opportunity strikes. Yet fragmented information, inconsistent reporting and investor scrutiny make that readiness hard to maintain. Sterling Technology gives PE professionals the structure and reliability to stay ahead. Our virtual data rooms unify fund and portfolio communication under a single secure framework, reducing administrative friction and preserving confidentiality. With responsive 24/7 support and tools designed for cross-border execution, Sterling helps funds seize opportunities, maintain investor trust and deliver stronger outcomes from fundraise to exit.

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Accelerate value creation

Move faster from acquisition to exit with deal-ready infrastructure already in place. Sterling's free deal readiness rooms for portfolio companies mean exit materials are organized continuously, not scrambled together when buyers appear. When market conditions align, our rapid room activation and pre-organized documentation let you launch competitive processes immediately, capturing valuation momentum that delays would sacrifice.

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Impress your LPs

Demonstrate operational excellence across fundraising, reporting and exits. Sterling's professional platform, comprehensive audit trails and detailed analytics signal the sophistication LPs expect from top-tier firms. Our secure LP portals for fundraising and our organized exit processes show institutional discipline that strengthens LP confidence and supports future fundraising.

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Maximize exit valuations

Well-organized, professionally presented data rooms create buyer confidence and competitive tension. Sterling's AI-powered organization and intuitive structure help buyers move quickly through diligence – maintaining deal momentum that protects pricing. Our analytics show you which buyers are most engaged with value creation metrics, helping you identify serious acquirers and manage competitive dynamics that drive valuations higher.

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Scale efficiently across assets

Manage your entire portfolio with consistent security standards and centralized oversight. Sterling's platform lets you deploy the same professional infrastructure across all portfolio companies, our bulk administration tools handle multiple concurrent deals efficiently, and our single support relationship scales with your activity. One platform, complete visibility across all deal activity, consistent execution quality.

Features that support private equity demands

Scale efficiently across portfolio companies and maximize exit valuations with Sterling's intelligent platform. Our AI engine accelerates deal launches for both fundraising and exits, while document protection controls manage LP access and buyer information rights precisely. Q&A workflows streamline investor questions during raises and buyer inquiries during exits. Real-time reporting provides portfolio-wide visibility, automated redaction reduces prep costs across multiple concurrent deals and built-in approval workflows ensure consistent standards. Launch competitive processes faster and close deals with the insights our analytics provide.

Document approval
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Prep your deal fast and stay compliant with built-in document review and approval.

Document protection
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Granular information rights management to keep you in control of what you share with bidders — and revoke access immediately.

Q&A
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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.

Reporting
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Real-time dashboards and reports to keep you informed of deal activity and provide strategic intelligence on bidder behavior.

AI
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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.

Hotspots - document approval

Granular information rights management to keep you in control of what you share with bidders — and revoke access immediately.

Hotspots - rights & management

Simple or advanced Q&A workflows that align to your deal process.

Hotspots - q&a

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.

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Real-time dashboards and reports to keep you informed of deal activity and provide strategic intelligence on bidder behavior.

Hotspots - reporting

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.

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End-to-end 24/7 multilingual support for private equity teams

Private equity teams choose Sterling for high-touch support from fundraise to exit. Whether you are raising a new fund, acquiring a platform, bolt-on or asset, or preparing a portfolio company for sale, we act as part of your deal and portfolio support team.

We can help you stand up and manage data rooms for multiple portfolio companies, advise on consistent index and folder structures, upload and maintain disclosure sets, manage bidder and lender permissions, configure Q&A workflows, set up GP, LP and management teams, and invite and train users across time zones.

Our multilingual client services team is in-house, available 24/7/365 by phone or email, with a dedicated deal manager assigned to each project. Unlike others, we never route night or weekend support to outsourced call centers.

At exit or recapitalization, we deliver encrypted deal archives and comfort letters quickly and anywhere they are needed, helping your private equity transactions sign and close smoothly while protecting value and documentation.

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Testimonials

Jim Van Steenkiste

Managing Director | Oaktree Capital

“Sterling understand the importance of being deal-ready and maximising value for alternative assets. They’ve created a virtual data room that combines an advanced technology platform with highly responsive customer service. It’s easy to use for both the sellside and buyside, so you can focus entirely on the deal and achieve the highest possible valuation.”

Domenico Basanisi

Head of Hotels Investment Properties, Italy | CBRE

 

"The Sterling virtual data room is able to manage a huge volume of documents and thousands of bidder questions. It combines an advanced technology platform, which is easy to use for both the sell side and buy side, with highly responsive customer service, allowing us to focus entirely on the deal and achieve the highest valuation for our asset."
“Sterling understand the importance of being deal-ready and maximising value for alternative assets. They’ve created a virtual data room that combines an advanced technology platform with highly responsive customer service. It’s easy to use for both the sellside and buyside, so you can focus entirely on the deal and achieve the highest possible valuation.”
"The Sterling virtual data room is able to manage a huge volume of documents and thousands of bidder questions. It combines an advanced technology platform, which is easy to use for both the sell side and buy side, with highly responsive customer service, allowing us to focus entirely on the deal and achieve the highest valuation for our asset."

Our private equity clients

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