M&A Foundations · glossary

Virtual data room (VDR)

The secure online platform that hosts the data room: permissioned access, watermarking, activity logs and a built-in Q&A module. See data room. Chapter 7

Explained in Chapter 7, Due Diligence, of M&A Foundations.

How it comes up, in Chapter 7
The data room. The seller does not post documents to each bidder; it opens a virtual data room (VDR) — a permissioned online document library run by a specialist provider. On Sunrise it is hosted by Vaultline Limited under the project name “Sunrise” (see the definition of Data Room in the SPA). Three features matter to you. Structure: the room is organised into numbered folders that mirror the DD request list — corporate, financial, contracts, employment, IP, regulatory and…
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