Operations Due Diligence: An M&A Guide for Investors and Business

VIRTUAL DEAL ROOMS

A virtual deal room (VDR) is an electronic form of the due diligence file. With the availability of low-priced scanners, document-imaging software, and cloud servers, the traditional due diligence document file box has quickly been replaced by technology. Managing the due diligence documents electronically offers a tremendous advantage over the past “box” method. All of the documents need to be in a text searchable form. Electronic documents come in many forms (different file types) including e-mails, and some of them may not be easily copied from their native format into the due diligence collection (for instance, they may require their native software application to be viewed). The file box method has been replaced by an ...