The partnership connects live deal data with AI-powered legal due diligence, enabling legal teams to identify material risks, verify findings against original documents and deliver comprehensive reporting without manually transferring files or compromising security.
GHENT, Belgium — October 27, 2026 — Emma Legal, the AI-powered workspace purpose-built for M&A legal due diligence, today announced a strategic partnership with Datasite, the essential infrastructure for M&A. The partnership connects live Datasite data rooms directly with Emma Legal, enabling corporate law firms, in-house legal teams and investors to analyze transaction documents, identify material risks and missing information, and deliver comprehensive legal due diligence reports with greater speed, confidence and control.
For the world's most complex M&A transactions, legal teams must review extensive, rapidly changing document sets while working against demanding transaction timelines. Traditionally, transferring documents between the data room and legal review systems involves repeatedly downloading, reorganizing and uploading files. This creates unnecessary duplication, increases the risk of working with incomplete or outdated information, and introduces additional security exposure when confidential transaction documents are handled outside the data room.
The partnership addresses these challenges by connecting Emma Legal directly with Datasite's trusted transaction infrastructure. The connection preserves the data room's folder structure and access permissions while keeping Emma Legal synchronized with the current document set. Legal teams can conduct their review without repeatedly downloading, uploading or manually reorganizing documents, reducing administrative work and unnecessary copies of sensitive transaction information.
Trusted by Am Law 100 firms and leading international deal teams, Emma Legal brings specialized legal due diligence capabilities to these connected workflows. The platform automatically classifies documents against the firm's information request list, identifies missing or incomplete documentation, and assesses contractual provisions against the firm's legal standards and transaction-specific requirements.
For example, legal teams can identify outstanding corporate records, assess change-of-control and consent provisions across hundreds of agreements, compare contractual obligations between entities, and uncover inconsistencies that might otherwise be overlooked. By analyzing documents within the wider context of the transaction, Emma Legal helps lawyers build a more complete understanding of material risks and their potential implications.
Every finding is supported by citations to the underlying source documents, which lawyers can open and examine directly within Emma Legal's document viewer. This allows teams to verify relevant clauses in context, assess their legal implications and translate findings into substantiated risk assessments and recommendations.
Throughout the process, Emma Legal provides a consolidated view of material risks, outstanding information and review progress. Lawyers can collaborate, validate and approve findings at document and red-flag level, with a full audit trail. Teams can prepare preliminary due diligence reports within 24 hours and develop comprehensive, client-ready reports in their preferred format, while retaining full control over legal conclusions and final approval.
“In complex transactions, the last thing that lawyers want is worrying about downloading and uploading files. They need to understand the risks, verify the evidence and advise their clients with confidence,” said Rick van Esch, CEO and Co-founder at Emma Legal. “Connecting Emma Legal with Datasite gives teams a direct path from the data room to source-linked, lawyer-reviewed findings at state-of-the art security standards.”
“AI is most useful when deal teams can apply it to trusted, current transaction data,” said Nicholas Renter, Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth & Partnerships at Datasite. “This connection reduces manual work and helps legal professionals focus on the risks that can affect a deal.”
The connection preserves Datasite's document access permissions and operates within Emma Legal's enterprise-grade security framework, which includes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, CASA Tier 2, and GDPR compliance. Clients retain full ownership of their data, which is never used to train Emma Legal's AI models. Emma Legal's contracts include confidentiality clauses, a Data Processing Agreement and service-level agreements. Legal professionals retain control over the review, validation and approval of findings throughout the due diligence process.
About Emma Legal
Emma Legal is a global legal technology company transforming M&A legal due diligence. Trusted by leading international law firms, in-house legal teams, and investors on complex, high-value transactions across jurisdictions, Emma's purpose-built AI workspace turns extensive deal documentation into verifiable legal findings and actionable intelligence. By bringing greater control, consistency, and confidence to due diligence, Emma enables legal professionals to focus on delivering exceptional advice on the transactions that matter most.
Learn more at www.emma.legal.
About Datasite
Datasite is the essential infrastructure for M&A. It helps companies, investors, and advisors find opportunities, manage complex transactions, and make better decisions. Products include market intelligence, secure data rooms, and digital boardrooms, assisted by a team of global experts available 24/7. Native AI flows through these capabilities to help dealmakers inform strategy, transact efficiently, and decide with confidence. With more than 50 years of experience, Datasite delivers many of the world's largest and most complex deals.
Learn more at www.datasite.com.
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