Mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
Premium virtual data room solutions that help manage competitive M&A processes, reduce risks and maximize valuations through professional sell-side execution support.
Why work with us on your next M&A deal?
Sterling provides the secure infrastructure and expert support that advisors and sellers rely on to run professional sell-side processes. From initial teaser distribution through management presentations, due diligence and final negotiations, our platform gives you complete control over every aspect of your transaction.
Our virtual data rooms accelerate due diligence timelines with intuitive organization and built-in tools such as powerful Q&A workflows, redaction and translation, helping you confidently close deals and asset sales faster. When you're orchestrating competitive tension among buyers, Sterling gives you the control and insights to maximize valuation.
Our AI-powered organization and intelligence tools structure your story clearly, our analytics help track bidder engagement in real time to understand who's most serious, and our 24/7 support ensures nothing slows your process when deals are moving quickly.
Run efficient competitive processes
Our Q&A management keeps buyer questions organized across multiple parties, ensuring consistent responses that create competitive tension. Analytics show you which bidders spend time on key value drivers versus who's just browsing, helping you focus on serious acquirers and manage process dynamics that drive valuations.
Protect sensitive information strategically
Granular permission controls let you stage information releases – sharing high-level materials broadly while restricting detailed financials, customer data or strategic plans to qualified buyers. Information rights management and watermarking protect documents, instant access revocation secures information if buyers exit and audit trails show exactly what each party accessed.
Accelerate due diligence timelines
AI-powered document organization structures information automatically, bulk upload handles thousands of files in minutes, and intuitive navigation helps buyers find what they need quickly. When buyers can move efficiently through diligence, you maintain deal momentum and pricing power that delays would sacrifice.
Maintain control under pressure
Our platform handles the technical complexity while you focus on deal strategy. Detailed activity tracking shows process status across all workstreams, our support team is available 24/7 when deals move on weekends or late nights, and our enterprise infrastructure ensures the platform performs flawlessly when it matters most.
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.
Multilingual 24/7 support for M&A transactions
On M&A transactions, timing and execution matter as much as valuation. Sterling supports every phase of the deal – from early data collection and vendor due diligence through intensive Q&A, negotiations and closing – acting as an extension of your advisory and internal deal teams.
We help you set up and structure the data room, design a clear index and folder hierarchy, upload and organize large volumes of documents, manage granular bidder and adviser permissions, configure Q&A routes and approval flows, create internal and external teams, and invite and train users across time zones so they can get to work immediately.
All of this is handled by our in-house multilingual support team, available 24/7/365 by phone or email, with a dedicated experienced deal support manager assigned to every transaction. Unlike others, we never divert “out-of-hours” or weekend calls to generic third-party call centers that do not understand your deal.
As your M&A deal approaches signing and completion, we deliver encrypted deal archives and comfort letters quickly and globally, helping you get over the line on schedule with a clear, defensible disclosure record.
