For M&A advisory
Deal rooms that scale
with the deal, not the seat.
Configure. Scale. Audit.
Investment banks, M&A advisory firms, and corporate development groups need a deal-room channel that scales with the deal, not the seat count. CIPH4 multi-file drops, modify-after-send, and signed deletion receipts close the loop without per-banker VDR economics.
THE CHALLENGE
What the legacy VDR misses
What teams in this role actually run into when secure transfer goes wrong.
01
Per-seat VDR fights the workflow
Legacy VDRs price per seat. Your deal team grows during diligence; the bill grows faster. The pricing model is the wrong shape for the workflow.
02
Bidders walk away with copies
The losing bidder ends up with competitive intelligence on your client's business — exactly what the client didn't want to share. Email confirmations to destroy don't survive a later discovery interview.
03
Closing-side legal needs evidence
Provable destruction artifacts per bidder. Compliance documentation, signed certifications, and chain-of-custody evidence for every diligence packet that left the room.
THE SOLUTION
What CIPH4 gives you
The product surface that maps to those problems, one feature at a time.
01
Multi-file dropsTeams
Up to 25 files per drop, each client-side encrypted. Stage the diligence packet as a single drop; share with each bidder through their own link.
02
Advanced expiry with calendar datesEnterprise
Pick a specific access window per bidder. The 7-day system ceiling still applies — every drop dies by day seven from creation regardless of the date picked.
03
Modify after sendTeams
Tighten view caps as the bidder pool narrows. The first round opens to ten parties; round two narrows to three — tighten the original links without re-staging.
04
Recipient access controlsEnterprise
Watermark, no-print, no-download overlays in the in-browser viewer. A deterrent for the casual case, not a defense against a determined screen-recorder; the cryptographic guarantee comes from revoke and burn.
05
Real-time bidder access notification
See exactly which bidder opened which document, when. Live dashboard update and email notification on every plan; tamper-evident webhook delivery on Enterprise.
06
Signed deletion receipts at closeEnterprise
Each bidder's link produces a cryptographically signed receipt at burn. One receipt per bidder per closing artifact. Verifiable on our public /verify page.
THE FLOW
How a typical workflow looks
A typical sequence — from intent to evidence — in three steps.
01
Configure
Spin up the deal team via SSO (Enterprise). Set firm-wide policies once — passphrase mandatory, identity binding required, expiry capped — and they apply to every banker on every deal.
02
Scale
Onboard bidders without paying per-seat VDR economics. Multi-file drops carry the diligence packet; modify-after-send tightens access as rounds progress. The deal-team dashboard surfaces who opened what, when, across every active deal.
03
Audit
At close, pull per-bidder signed deletion receipts in a single export. Closing-side legal attaches them to the binder. Internal audit + compliance get one defensible artifact set per deal, every deal.
THE FRAMING
Where CIPH4 fits your program
How the same building blocks land against the frameworks your auditor cares about.
01
Frameworks we map
Confidentiality agreements with counterparties, state corporate disclosure laws, and (for cross-border deals) GDPR. M&A has no formal industry certification regime.
02
Controls we ship
Multi-file deal-room drops (up to 25 files), advanced expiry with calendar dates, modify-after-send, recipient access controls, and SSO for whole-firm deployment.
03
Artifacts we generate
Per-bidder cryptographically signed deletion receipts at close. Statements that data was destroyed at a specific moment, verifiable on our public /verify page by any party.
Ready to see it?
20 free links a month, no credit card. When you need single sign-on, compliance templates, or signed deletion receipts your auditor can verify — we'll talk.