Why work with Sterling?
Premium AI-enabled virtual data room solutions for high-stakes M&A dealmaking and capital raising.
Platform
Our advanced yet easy-to-use platform enables secure file sharing and collaboration among all deal participants, enabling effortless file sharing, automation of key tasks and collaboration among users while delivering best-in-class security and unrivaled end-to-end support. Premium features such as built-in redaction, real-time translation and AI tools for document classification and organization, gap analysis, anomaly detection and document-level Q&A intelligence set us apart.
Service
We deliver the industry's best 24/7/365 multilingual support. We take care of everything – acting as an extension of your own deal team – from data room and index building, applying document permissions, setting up Q&A and redaction workflows, creating teams, inviting and training users, through due diligence support to closing. Our experienced service team is 100% in-house; unlike others, we never outsource "after-hours" or weekend coverage to third party call centers.
Security
We meet the highest security standards, including AES-256 document encryption, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certification, and are fully compliant with EU and UK GDPR. Clients can choose EU, UK or US data hosting in logically and physically separate environments supported by SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports. Our security standards are trusted by the IT security teams of top-tier advisors and large, multinational corporates.
Experience
We've supported customers from 187 countries and 90 industries to successfully complete thousands of deals – from middle-market transactions to multi-billion dollar exits. Our transaction record covers mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, private and public equity and debt capital raises, IPOs, carve-outs, JVs, licensings, bankruptcies and restructurings. Top-tier financial and legal advisors, middle market firms, Fortune 500 global corporates and startups all work with us.
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 every project - our USP
Sterling provides hands-on support across the full deal lifecycle. From initial preparation and data room build through the most intensive due diligence and all the way to signing and closing, we act as an extension of your deal team not just a technology provider. We help you stand up new projects quickly, structure data rooms around how your deal works, and keep complex processes moving across time zones.
Our specialists can set up and configure the data room, advise on index and folder design, handle bulk document upload and organization, apply granular permissions, configure Q&A workflows, create bidder, management and advisor teams, and invite and train users so they can focus on the transaction, not the technology.
All of this is delivered by our in-house multilingual client services team, available 24/7/365 by phone or email, with a deal manager assigned to every project. We never outsource “out-of-hours” or weekend support to third-party call centers. When your transaction reaches signing or closing, we deliver encrypted deal archives and comfort letters quickly and globally, so you maintain a clear, defensible record of disclosures while getting the deal over the line on schedule.
Trusted by dealmakers
Experience supporting over 10,000 deals across M&A, capital raises, restructurings and strategic transactions – from middle-market transactions to multi-billion dollar exits.
AstraZeneca, the UK-listed pharmaceutical company, used Sterling Technology for the sale of US rights to Synagis, a respiratory infection anti-viral medicine, to Swedish Orphan Biovitrum for
Recipharm, the Sweden-listed pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing firm, and its advisors Carnegie, PwC and Stifel, used Sterling Technology for its acquisition by an EQT-led consortium for
Brewin Dolphin Holdings PLC, the London-listed provider of discretionary wealth management services, and its advisors Barclays and Lazard, used Sterling Technology for its acquisition by Royal Bank of Canada for
Elysium Healthcare, the UK-based provider of mental healthcare services, and its advisors Jamieson and J.P. Morgan, used Sterling Technology for its sale to Ramsay Health Care from BC Partners for
Countryside Partnerships, the UK-listed residential property developer, and its advisors Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Rothschild, used Sterling Technology for its acquisition by Vistry Group for
