Guides for people running Australian deals.
Written for advisers, lawyers, CFOs and founders. Specific, current, and free of the usual filler.
What investors look for in your data room
What venture and private equity investors actually open first in a data room, the signals they read from how it is built, and the gaps that stall a raise.
Preparing your business for an exit
A practical exit preparation guide: the twelve months before a sale, the diligence gaps that reduce price, and how to build the data room before you need it.
Data room security explained
What data room security actually consists of: permissions, watermarking, audit trails, encryption, hosting location and certifications, and how to verify each one.
How AI changes due diligence
AI is moving diligence from reading everything to interrogating everything. What that changes in practice, what it does not, and why citations decide whether it is usable.
How to choose a virtual data room
The eight questions that decide which virtual data room is right for your deal, how to compare quotes across pricing models, and the demo tests worth running.
How to set up a virtual data room
A step-by-step guide to setting up a virtual data room: folder structure, permissions, staged disclosure, Q&A ownership and the mistakes that cost weeks.
Privacy Act obligations when sharing deal documents with an offshore buyer
What APP 8 and section 16C mean when an overseas buyer reviews your data room, and the practical steps that keep you covered.
AI in due diligence: what works and what is marketing
Which AI capabilities genuinely change diligence work, which are demo features, and the traceability test that separates them.
Data room red flags Australian dealmakers should watch for
Ten warning signs in a data room provider or a counterparty's room, from unpriced overage to audit trails that cannot be exported.
Running Q&A in a data room without losing control of the process
How to structure data room Q&A: one owner, answers in the room, party isolation, and a record you can rely on at completion.
Sell-side due diligence: what buyers actually ask for
The request list buyers actually send, in the order they send it, and what to have ready before the room opens.
How much should a data room cost for a $10m deal in Australia?
A worked budget in AUD for a mid-market Australian transaction, including what a legacy per-page platform would invoice for the same deal.
Virtual data room pricing in 2026: per-page, per-seat, and the overage trap
How data room pricing models work in 2026, what per-page and per-seat pricing really costs, and how to convert every quote into the same unit.
ISO/IEC 42001 explained, and why it matters when your data room uses AI
What ISO/IEC 42001 covers, how it differs from ISO 27001, and why an AI management standard matters when software reads your deal documents.
Where is your data room data actually stored?
Storage location is published. Processing location usually is not. The offshore processing problem, and the questions that expose it.
What is a virtual data room?
A virtual data room is a controlled online space for sharing confidential documents with outside parties, with permissions, watermarking and a full audit trail.
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