Virtual Data Room is a secure cloud storage solution that lets businesses share documents with third-party users securely. It is used by a variety of industries such as life science, technology, banking, M&A, and more.

Virtual data rooms are commonly used for M&A Virtual Data Room transactions, which is the most popular use of VDRs. They assist in due diligence, and closing deals with less risk. This is especially important since M&A is a large volume of documents and is extremely sensitive.

A VDR can help reduce M&A risk by providing the users with more specific permissions with secure spreadsheet viewers, as well as other features like screen-only mode, screenshot blocking and more. This means that only the right users can view and access the data. The security of your infrastructure is also guaranteed by multiple backups and virus scanning.

Financial services companies have a lot of information to manage including business contracts and other legal paperwork to accounting and financial records. This makes them a great candidate for VDRs. VDR as they can store documents securely and share them with third party quickly.

To help them keep their client data safe and secure Investment banks rely on online document sharing tools to aid in M&A transactions, capital raising, and other projects. To maximize efficiency the firms require a VDR which offers a broad variety of collaboration options and a flexible price plan. For example an investment bank might require an upload speed of 5MB per second, SmartLock that allows revoking access to documents even after they’ve been downloaded built-in redaction, DocuSign integration, and much more.