Singapore M&A Association Strengthens Regional Dealmaking Ecosystem with Knovos as Platinum Corporate & Founding Member

The Singapore M&A Association (SGM&A) is pleased to welcome Knovos as a Platinum Corporate & Founding Member, marking another significant milestone in the Association’s mission to build a world-class, technology-forward M&A ecosystem in Singapore and across Southeast Asia. As one of the founding corporate members, Knovos brings to the SGM&A community more than two decades of enterprise legal technology leadership and a state-of-the-art Virtual Data Room (VDR) platform purpose-built for secure, intelligent, and sovereign M&A transactions.

This partnership reflects a shared conviction: that the next chapter of dealmaking in Asia will be defined not only by capital and strategy, but by the technology that underpins how deals are structured, governed, and closed.

About Knovos

Founded in 2002, Knovos is a global legal technology and data intelligence company serving 1,800+ clients across law firms, corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including 54% of the Am Law 100, 40% of the Fortune 100, and 70% of the Global Top 20 Law Firms, with 45,000+ active users worldwide.

Purpose-Built VDR for Modern M&A

Knovos Rooms is an enterprise-grade Virtual Data Room built for cross-border M&A: regulated data environments, compressed timelines, and non-negotiable confidentiality. It combines secure collaboration, intelligent document management, and AI-assisted due diligence, powered by Knovos Insight – the company’s native AI engine, in a single governed workspace that supports the full transaction lifecycle, from initial teaser through post-deal integration, with complete auditability at every stage.

Factors that set Knovos apart in the market: deployment flexibility and pricing predictability. BYC (Bring Your Cloud), BYDC (Bring Your Data Center), SaaS, and BYAIM (Bring Your AI Model) give advisors, corporates, sovereign funds, and regulated institutions the freedom to keep data within their own infrastructure and run AI models of their choice, without being locked into a vendor’s ecosystem. For Singapore and APAC, where data residency requirements and cross-border privacy regulations directly shape deal structure, this translates to greater data sovereignty and transaction costs that scale with deal volume, not with data volume.

A View from Singapore

“Singapore has become a gateway for cross-border M&A across ASEAN. As deal complexity grows, secure VDR technology, intelligent due diligence, and context-aware AI are essential. With 23+ years of legal technology expertise, Knovos is proud to support SGM&A as a Founding Member.”

— Bhavesh Shukla, Managing Director, Knovos Singapore

“We are pleased to welcome Knovos as a Platinum Corporate and Founding Member of the Singapore M&A Association,” said Erin Tan, Director of Strategic Partnerships & Alliances.

“As Singapore strengthens its position as a leading regional M&A hub, the ecosystem is evolving— with technology, data governance, and AI playing an increasingly central role in deal execution. At SGM&A, we are committed to bringing together the capabilities that support this transformation. Knovos’ strength in legal technology and data sovereignty aligns closely with our vision to enable a more secure, efficient, and future-ready dealmaking environment.”

What the Partnership Will Deliver

Through this collaboration, SGM&A and Knovos will work together across a range of initiatives, including industry roundtables, knowledge-sharing sessions on deal technology and AI in diligence, cross-border workshops, and thought-leadership programs on the evolving role of data governance and artificial intelligence in M&A. Together, SGM&A and Knovos aim to equip the Singapore M&A community — practitioners, corporate development teams, investors, advisors, and business owners — with sharper insights, deeper expertise, and privileged access to world-class deal technology.

About the Singapore M&A Association (SGM&A)

The Singapore M&A Association (SGM&A) is the national body dedicated to strengthening Singapore’s M&A community by connecting practitioners, investors, advisors, and business owners through industry events, knowledge-sharing, cross-border exchanges, and thought leadership. SGM&A works to position Singapore as a leading M&A hub in Southeast Asia and a trusted bridge for cross-border dealmaking across the Asia-Pacific region.