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Shining a light on global dealmaking

February 25, 2026 | Infographic

Shining a light on global dealmaking

Highlights:

  • For your biggest deals – four of the top five, 44 of the top 100 – you chose Datasite.
  • In a year of giant TMT deals, you made the biggest of all right here.
  • You made thousands of deals across every sector: TMT, Industrials, Healthcare, Financial services, Consumer, Energy, and Real estate.
  • You saved 55,000 hours by getting help 389,000 times – all included.

In M&A, how far is a light year? You can measure the distance in how much you do. Such as 626,000+ dealmakers handling over a billion pages of content, making more than 143 million redactions, searching up 3.4 million terms, and answering over 800,000 due diligence questions – all to manage some 39,000 deals on Datasite.

In a field where speed is paramount and clarity essential, you need to make light work of all that heavy lifting. That means using technology made for M&A, to blend rigorous security with the smartest features and the smoothest workflows. The tools that free up time for you to shine.

So let’s celebrate what dealmakers achieved last year with Datasite. Here’s to the leading lights of M&A.