Global Bank Accelerates Multibillion Dollar Healthcare Deal With Intralinks Redaction Services
Faced with thousands of pages of sensitive documents and limited internal bandwidth, a bulge-bracket bank turned to SS&C Intralinks Deal Services for redaction — saving days of work and keeping a multibillion-dollar healthcare transaction on track.
Challenge
As a major global financial institution prepared for the multibillion-dollar sale of a healthcare company, its advisory team faced a daunting challenge: redacting nearly 1,000 pages of due diligence materials. These documents contained personally identifiable information (PII), such as names, emails and signatures, as well as confidential strategic information (CSI), including pricing schedules, rate cards, compound specifications and proprietary protocol data.
The bank’s team was already stretched thin managing critical deal activities like populating the virtual data room, organizing data cuts and maintaining the diligence tracker. Manual redaction would have diverted valuable time and resources, while outsourcing the task to outside counsel would have incurred high hourly costs. The institution required a faster, more precise method to complete the work within the client’s timeline.
Solution
The bank turned to SS&C Intralinks Deal Services to streamline the process. Initially, the redaction criteria were broad, but Intralinks’ expert support team collaborated closely with the advisory team to refine the scope — ensuring all sensitive details were captured without unnecessary edits.
Within a single day, the Intralinks team delivered approximately 1,000 fully redacted pages across 80 documents. The advisor and seller then reviewed the redacted materials and provided feedback, which Intralinks incorporated immediately.
“Outsourcing redaction to Intralinks saved us hours and let our team focus on the core deal tasks we couldn’t outsource,” said a bulge-bracket M&A associate involved in the transaction. “Their expertise helped us define what really needed to be redacted, and the quick turnaround and responsiveness made the whole process much more efficient.”
Results
By partnering with Intralinks Deal Services, the advisory team saved at least two full days of manual work — freeing up time and resources for diligence prep and strategic deal execution. The collaboration reduced labor and legal costs while delivering complete, accurate redactions under tight deadlines.
Intralinks’ responsiveness and same-day turnaround kept the deal on track, while close communication and attention to detail minimized rework and built confidence in every document shared. The bank’s experience underscores how Intralinks helps deal teams work faster and smarter by delivering the expertise, efficiency and scalability today’s high-stakes transactions demand.