Data room checklist
The single biggest thing you can do to keep a deal, raise or audit moving is to prepare your documents in advance, organised by category. Use the interactive checklist below for M&A due diligence, investor fundraising or an ATO tax audit. Tick through what you have, print it, then build the room.
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Corporate & structure
Financial
Legal & contracts
Commercial
People
Compliance
Turn this checklist into a live, trackable Document Request List inside a data room.
Build it in ShareAndGoHow to use your data room checklist
A checklist is only half the job. The other half is presentation: reviewers judge a business partly on how well its data room is organised. Mirror the checklist as your top-level folder structure, one folder per category, and name files consistently. Keep a single source of truth so versions do not drift, and track what is still outstanding rather than emailing documents back and forth.
Inside ShareAndGo, each of these checklists exists as a one-click template that becomes a live Document Request List. You assign items to the people who owe them, provided documents are auto-filed into the right category folder, and you can see at a glance what is still missing before you invite the other side. Access is view-only and watermarked, with a tamper-evident audit trail, and all data stays in Sydney.
Data room checklist FAQs
What should a data room checklist include?
A data room checklist should be organised by category so the other side can navigate quickly. For M&A due diligence that means corporate documents, financials, legal and contracts, commercial, people and compliance. For a fundraise it is cap table and company documents, financials, product and technology, market and traction, team and legal. For an ATO tax audit it is income and returns, accounting records, payroll, GST, deductions and prior ATO correspondence.
What is a due diligence data room checklist?
It is the standard list of documents a buyer or investor expects to review before completing a transaction. Preparing it in advance, organised into clearly named folders, is the single biggest thing you can do to keep a deal moving. ShareAndGo's built-in Document Request List turns the checklist into assignable, trackable requests inside the room.
How do I organise documents in a data room?
Mirror your checklist as the top-level folder structure, one folder per category, and name files consistently (date, party, document type). Keep a single source of truth so versions do not drift. ShareAndGo lets you seed the folder tree from a checklist template and auto-files provided documents into the right category folder.
Is there a free data room checklist template?
Yes. This page is an interactive checklist you can tick through and print for M&A due diligence, fundraising or an ATO tax audit. Inside ShareAndGo, the same checklists exist as one-click templates that become a live Document Request List, so you can assign items and track what is outstanding.
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