Frequently Asked Questions

Emma Legal is designed for M&A professionals, including law firms, private equity and venture capital investors, and in-house legal teams. It supports teams handling multiple deals who need fast, accurate legal insights without compromising on quality.

Emma’s AI is designed with one core principle: Don’t miss the needle in the haystack.

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Instead of making risky assumptions about what’s important, our system surfaces all potentially relevant issues, so legal teams can make informed decisions with full context without needing to read every contract from start to finish.

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Under the hood, we use the most advanced large language models (LLMs) available, models that lead industry benchmarks for legal and contract analysis. Combined with our proprietary legal workflows and structured outputs, this ensures both depth and breadth in document review.

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In short, Emma is engineered for completeness, transparency, and control. Legal professionals consistently report that Emma finds critical issues faster without sacrificing quality or oversight.

Yes. Emma is designed to support multilingual M&A deals. Whether you’re dealing across borders or reviewing documents in a language you’re less familiar with, with Emma you easily adapt the LDD to 80 different language, making it easier to manage and understand due diligence for your team and especially for your client.

Most deal teams get started with Emma in under an hour. The platform offers predefined onboarding templates by industry, so you can begin reviewing documents and identifying legal risks without complex setup. Emma’s Information Request List (IRL) outlines 180 predefined legal document types, enabling teams to launch due diligence quickly and confidently. Emma is known for its intuitive interface, tailored to the way lawyers and investors work.

Yes.

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Emma Legal integrate with a wide range of leading Virtual Data Room (VDR) providers and cloud storage systems, allowing you to plug Emma into your current deal setup. Instead of downloading, re-uploading, or restructuring documents, your data room is connected in real time, preserving your existing folder structure and access controls.

We currently connect with the following virtual data room and cloud providers:

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VDRs:

* SS&C Intralinks

* Ideals

* Ansarada

* Virtual Vaults

* HiqhQ - Thomson Reuters

* Datasite - In development

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Cloud providers:

* OneDrive

* SharePoint

* Google Drive

* Box

* Dropbox

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Visit our Data Room Connectivity page .

Absolutely. Emma is built with enterprise-grade security standards, including GDPR compliance, end-to-end encryption, ISO27001 certified and all partnerships need to be SOC 2-Type II-certified. Your data is private, protected, never reused and stays yours at all time. Want to know more? Email us at Security@Emma.Legal.

Emma supports over 180 predefined legal document types, including employment agreements, shareholder minutes, IP assignments, litigation summaries, lease contracts, etc. You can also define custom document types for your deal.

Emma comes with 74+ preloaded checks like Change of Control, IP Transfer, Non-Solicitation, and Shareholder Structure, etc. But here’s the game-changer: you can create custom “checks” to surface exactly what you need. Want all French contracts mentioning Change of Control? Or every document involving a specific supplier? Just ask Emma. Your entire data room, fully searchable on your terms.

In Emma, “Checks**”** are the foundation of our legal risk analysis. They come in two forms:

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• Legal Clause Checks: These are 74 predefined legal clause types, like Change of Control, IP Transfer, Non-Solicitation, and more. Based on you requirements, Emma scans these high-risk clauses across all documents in your data room.
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• Custom Checks allow you to go deeper. You can tailor your analysis by asking Emma to surface specific information. For example, all French contracts with Change of Control clauses, or every document mentioning a particular supplier.
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To keep things simple, Emma combines both types under the same name: Checks. One interface. Total flexibility.

Emma Legal stands apart by being purpose-built for legal due diligence, not just a general AI model adapted for legal use. Unlike many competitors, Emma goes beyond surface-level keyword detection and understands the legal context and interrelation of clauses across documents, critical for accurate risk assessment in M&A. It combines large language models with agentic AI to deliver deeper insights and more reliable outputs.

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Designed with legal teams and investors in mind, Emma offers structured workflows, enterprise-grade security, and a user experience aligned with real-world deal execution. Backed by a founding team with deep expertise in both AI and M&A, Emma delivers high-quality, clause-level risk summaries within minutes—providing unmatched speed, precision, and relevance in high-stakes transactions. Discover Emma yourself by booking a demo call.

Yes, you can. Emma Legal is built with the same enterprise-grade security standards as Virtual Data Rooms. You can also use Emma alongside your existing Virtual Data Room (VDR).

Yes, absolutely. Emma Legal is perfect for Vendor Due Diligence (VDD) before bringing an asset to market. The platform handles and visualizes various file formats—from Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF and can also store media files like MP3 and MP4.