Chesapeake Group Adopts Pandesa ShareVault for Sell-Side M&A Due Diligence
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CHESAPEAKE GROUP ADOPTS PANDESA SHAREVAULT FOR SELL-SIDE M&A DUE DILIGENCE
Mid-Market M&A Firm praise ShareVault’s ease-of-use, rapid setup, and powerful search capabilities
San Jose, CA, December 18, 2007 — Pandesa Corporation recently announced that The Chesapeake Group, a mid-market international investment banking firm based in New York City, has adopted Pandesa’s ShareVault™ on-demand virtual deal room to securely share documents during the due diligence process in connection with sell-side M&A.
“Chesapeake has now used us for four deals, providing further confirmation that ShareVault is the ideal platform for mid-market M&A transactions” said John Badger, VP of Marketing and Product Management of Pandesa Corporation.
Due diligence documents on-demand from a secure web-based platform
ShareVault™, an on-demand web-based virtual data room, was developed for securely sharing deal-related documents during due diligence. Entirely web-based, ShareVault allows users to login and securely access content via a web browser.
Ease-of-Use
Chesapeake cites ShareVault’s straightforward setup and configuration, the ease of searching for specific content, security and the use of the industry-standard PDF format for secure document sharing as important factors in their selection of ShareVault™. “We can call Pandesa on a moment’s notice and have a ShareVault setup the same day,” said Erik Buchakian, a Principal with The Chesapeake Group. “ShareVault’s modern, easy-to-use software provides our client’s with an ideal way to manage deal documents. The due diligence team can instantly locate specific content by using the integrated search engine. Everything is so intuitive — so we can focus on the deal itself without worrying about training”.
ShareVault™ capabilities
Documents are uploaded via a high-speed, encrypted connection by dragging and dropping multiple files and/or entire folders. For paper documents, secure scanning services are also available with turnaround times of a few days. Documents uploaded to the ShareVault are automatically converted to PDF with support for more than 300 file types including Microsoft Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Project®, Visio® and hundreds of others. ShareVault™ contents are organized via a tag-based structure, supporting a flexible organization of the content according to the due-diligence list. Customizable access control assures that each document is available only to users with appropriate privileges. ShareVault also features a tightly integrated full-text search engine, visual content browsing and in-place editing of tags and permissions. Detailed activity tracking and reporting are also included, providing a permanent record of who has seen what documents and when.
High-Grade Security and Reliability
Security features include 128-bit encryption, document-level access control, PDF rights management and audit trail capabilities. ShareVault is delivered from a SAS-70 part II compliant data center, with hardware and infrastructure redundancy, to ensure the high-grade reliability needed for critical deals.
About Pandesa
Pandesa Corporation provides Web-based business content sharing services for a variety of industries and applications based on its high performance, database- driven, multi-tenant information repository. Founded in 2003, Pandesa’s corporate headquarters are in Cupertino, California, and the company operates a development center located in Bangalore, India.
Contact: John Badger, VP Sales & Marketing, Pandesa Corporation, +1-800-380-7652, ext. 802 or jbadger@pandesa.com.
