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Frequently Asked Questions
Detailed answers to common questions about Emma’s features, data handling, and use in M&A workflows.
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Can I use Emma Legal as a stand-alone Virtual Data Room (VDR) ?
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).
I'm a Corporate Finance advisor on the sell-side. Can I use Emma Legal?
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.
Does Emma Legal structure my data room for me?
Yes, absolutely. After syncing or uploading your data room, Emma Legal's first step is structuring all files and folders using the Information Request List (IRL). You can use our standard IRL with up to 193 document types to automatically categorize your data room. Even better, you can define your own document types for Emma and they will be instantly categorized accordingly.
Can I leverage Emma Legal as a knowledge base for Legal M&A dealmaking?
That's exactly what Emma Legal is designed for. Domain and/or law expertise (like industry knowledge, social law, and IP law) in M&A deals often exists in scattered fragments that are hard to manage effectively. Through Emma Legal's templates for IRLs and Checks, your firm can tap into the same smart questions that domain experts would ask during a deal. When you invite team members to the Emma Legal Platform, you can delegate specific questions to domain experts and save their insights as templates for future deals. This way, your firm grows smarter with every transaction.
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SS&C Intralinks connects to Emma
SS&C Intralinks connects directly with Emma Legal, giving deal teams a faster and more secure way to run legal due diligence. Link your data room, pull in documents, and get to work, no more document handeling or uploads and downloads.
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Emma Legal and Virtual Vaults Announce Integration to Enable Fully Synchronized Legal Due Diligence
Virtual Vaults integrates with Emma Legal, enabling automatic real-time synchronization of M&A virtual data room documents into an AI-powered legal due diligence platform.
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MIT's '95% of AI Fails' statistic makes one thing clear: LegalTech Must Go Workflow-Specific like Emma
AI fails 95% of the time, unless it’s built for real workflows. This article explains why generic tools stall in LegalTech and how workflow-specific platforms like Emma transform Legal Due Diligence with measurable ROI.
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Legal Tech Als Accelerator Voor Marge en Kwaliteit
Dutch Article - Een artikel van Rick van Esch (Co-Founder & CEO, Emma Legal) in Brookz500, de jaarlijkse gids van de Nederlandse MKB-overnamemarkt. Het beschrijft hoe legal tech binnen M&A evolueert: van efficiëntietool naar strategische versneller. De boodschap is duidelijk: AI vervangt advocaten niet, maar versterkt hun kwaliteit, marge en impact.
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How Emma Legal Turns Data Rooms Into Insight
Rick van Esch explains how AI-driven playbooks and structured data rooms transform M&A due diligence from bottleneck to strategic advantage.
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The Devil is the Detail: R&W as Risk Allocation Tools in M&A
A senior, practice-driven analysis of how representations, warranties, and indemnities actually allocate risk in cross-border M&A and why due diligence only matters when it changes the drafting.
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Building Emma: The Architecture Behind Reliable Legal AI
A deep dive into how Emma builds reliable legal AI for M&A due diligence. Co-Founder Pieter Buteneers explains why LLMs excel at structured legal review, why prompt-driven workflows outperform “magic agents,” and how step-based, auditable processes cut review from weeks to hours. From model selection to security, completeness checks, risk scanning, and human-in-the-loop judgment, this episode shows the architecture behind trustworthy, fast, and defensible diligence.
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The Rise of The Legal Innovation Leads
Discover how law firms are embracing legal innovation beyond buzzwords. In this interview, Suzanne van der Klip, M&A lawyer-turned-innovation lead shares how to drive real AI adoption in legal workflows from due diligence to deal execution.
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Europe vs US deal habits that reshapes your M&A playbook
Europe vs US M&A deal habits: from locked box pricing to disclosure letters and W&I insurance that reshapes your playbook. Learn how to navigate key differences and turn them into deal-closing advantages.
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How WAD Capital’s model tackles Europe’s €7T succession gap
Thousands of European businesses risk disappearing as founders retire. Discover how WAD Capital and Emma Legal tackle the €7T succession gap with faster diligence and empathetic buyouts.
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AI for lawyers is here. Now what?
AI for lawyers is here. Omar Puertas, partner at Cuatrecasas, explains where gen-AI adds value, where it fails, and why firms must start experimenting with Emma Legal.
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AI leverage is the new deal currency for PEs
Featuring insights from Connor O’Hearn, this article explores how AI is becoming the new currency of leverage in M&A. O’Hearn, founder of MAAI Services, outlines how lean deal teams are outpacing larger firms by using tools like Emma Legal to automate diligence, uncover insights, and compress timelines. He argues that AI isn't just about efficiency. It’s a career accelerant, a strategic edge, and a sign of maturity that LPs are starting to expect.
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The W&I trend: How AI is reshaping M&A risk and raising the bar
Warranty and Indemnity insurance is now a mid-market M&A must-have. Discover how AI-powered due diligence tools like Emma are fueling faster, safer dealmaking.
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