Virtual Data Rooms: An Informational Guide What Are They, How Do You Use Them, and Why Are They Taking the Industry By Storm What is a Virtual Data Room? Let’s back up: What was a physical data room? Let’s start with a basic question: How do businesses share information? First, there was physical communication, where…
Mergers and Acquisitions: What You Need to Know What are Mergers and Acquisitions? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the general term for the transaction wherein a company or assets of a company are consolidated into another company or business entity through various types of financial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets,…
Capital Calls What are capital calls? A capital call (also known as a drawdown or a capital commitment) is a legal right of an investment firm or an insurance firm to demand a portion of the money promised to it by an investor. When an investor buys into a private equity fund, the firm…
Security Vs Compliance When people think about security and compliance they often think that they’re the same thing: if you’re being compliant aren’t you also being secure (and vice versa)? The truth is that compliance doesn’t always equal security, and security doesn’t always equal compliance. Information technology has reached highs previously thought to be impossible—the…
Bolt-On and Tuck-In Acquisitions What is a Bolt-On Acquisition? A bolt-on acquisition refers to when a private equity firm attaches a smaller company to a larger “platform” company. This platform company will have a strong presence in the market with an intact and maneuverable management structure, economies of scale, infrastructure and all of the things…
Document Retention and How It Can Help Your Business According to newly revised rules from the US government, document retention and a good document retention policy is essential. Document retention refers to the way that companies can retain, review and destroy documents possessed and created by the business. What is a Document Retention Policy? A…
What Are Audit Logs? An audit log (also known as an audit trail) is a chronological, secure record, or set of records, that provide evidence that activities or a sequence of activities have affected an operation, procedure, or event. In other words, when any change is made to a system’s behavior, that change is documented…
How to Sign and Date PDFs Using Caplinked’s Virtual Data Room and Watermarking Tool Everyone has experienced the hassle of receiving a document only to have to print it out sign it and fax it back in. (Who has fax machines anymore?) This headache has been alleviated in recent years through a number of services,…
What is Accretive Acquisition? An accretive acquisition is an acquisition that increases the acquiring company’s earnings per share (EPS). These acquisitions benefit the company’s market price because the price paid by the acquiring firm is lower than the financial boost that the new acquisition is expected to provide to the acquiring company’s EPS. As a…
How To Share a Secure PDF Much of Business is Done These Days Via PDFs—But Are Those PDFs Really Secure? A PDF, or Portable Document Format, is a file developed by Adobe in the 1990s to present documents in a way that preserved the fonts, layout, and graphics of the original document without being susceptible…