Filtering company data in a divestiture, simplified with first level review

The Challenge

Our client, a large energy company, was in the process of divesting part of their business and was required to review a large volume of company data for release to the newly separated entity. The entity would be provided with material in a 'data room'. The data room would contain operationally essential information, as agreed to in the divestiture agreement. However, our client needed to ensure that all commercially sensitive and personally identifiable data was excluded from the data set before release.

The official divestiture date was due to take place three weeks after review commencement. Provision of the data by the due date was a central component of the contract and non-compliance would have resulted in significant financial penalties if the new parent company was not able to commence operations on the agreed date.