Steve Ball shares his insights on how he used the tech platform, HighQ, to help scale the legal function for a private equity house, such that it could support a range of portfolio businesses with an ultra lean and flexible team. Steve explains how the pre-acquisition due diligence of a business represents an unusual opportunity for that business to get is legal documents in order – and how using a tech platform to capture and maintain those documents can support business as usual operations and analytics after the deal closes

“When we’re ready to sell that business, we should already have a largely completed data room ready to switch on.”