A great deal. Better.

Our advanced yet easy-to-use platform enables secure file sharing, automation of key tasks and collaboration among all deal participants while delivering best-in-class security and unrivaled end-to-end support.

We have the features you expect from a premium VDR such as document protection with granular information rights management (IRM), secure viewers for PDF, Microsoft® Office, Excel®, CAD and video files in native format, built-in redaction, automatic real-time document translation and strategic intelligence on bidder activity

Sterling's next-generation platform goes even further with AI tools such as document classification and organization, gap analysis, anomaly detection and document-level Q&A intelligence – to provide better insights and close deals faster at higher valuations.

One of Sterling's unique features is our end-to-end support for every project. From deal prep through due diligence to closing, we take care of everything, acting as an extension of your own deal team.

We can help you set up the data room, advise on folder and index structure, upload documents, apply permissions, set up Q&A workflows, create teams, invite and train users, and much more.

Our in-house, multi-lingual customer service team are available 24/7/365 by phone or e-mail, with an experienced deal manager assigned to every project. Unlike others, we never outsource "out-of-hours" or weekend support to third party call centers.

On request, we deliver encrypted deal archives and comfort letters quickly, globally, to enable signing/closing to proceed.

From the largest to the smallest deal, we take security equally seriously. Working with Sterling, you can expect the highest security standards to protect your project.

• Files uploaded to our VDR are AES-256 (Advanced Encryption Standard with a 256-bit key) encrypted – the approved benchmark for protecting top-secret information by governments and security agencies worldwide.
• We are certified to ISO 27001 (Information Security Management Systems), ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) and Cyber Essentials Plus (audited standard for protection against cyber-attacks).

We comply with EU and UK GDPR data privacy standards and offer a choice of EU, UK or US data hosting, with guaranteed isolation – no out-of-jurisdiction data leakage. Our data hosting provider's controls are independently assessed under the AICPA SOC framework (SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3), providing assurance over financial processes, security and the protection of client data.

Our platform and experienced team have supported customers from 187 countries and 90 industries to successfully complete thousands of deals across M&A, capital raises, restructurings and strategic transactions – from middle-market to multi-billion dollar exits.

Our list of completed deals includes mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, private and public equity and debt capital raises, IPOs, carve-outs, JVs, licensings, bankruptcies and restructurings.

We have also supported non-M&A use cases such as a global audit tender for the world's largest food and beverage company, covering 750 entities, 180 countries, hundreds of thousands of documents, tens of thousands of questions and thousands of users - our infrastructure has been battle-tested to cope with the largest projects.