The Firm
Duncan Bergman Mandell was founded on the conviction that corporate law can be practiced more efficiently by experienced attorneys leveraging technology, rather than traditional models built around layers of junior staffing. The firm brings together experienced attorneys from elite firms and equips them with purpose-built tools that streamline execution and surface risk earlier in the process. The result is more focused analysis, more responsive communication, and a level of efficiency aligned with how modern transactions actually move.
That approach led DBM to Marveri. Recognizing that diligence is often the most time-intensive and least transparent phase of a transaction, the firm embedded Marveri into its workflow to deliver structured, actionable insight from the outset.
Where It Fits
DBM deploys Marveri at the outset of every transaction, when document sets are incomplete, disorganized, and time pressure is highest. Across M&A, private equity investments, and restructurings, incoming materials are run through Marveri to establish what's there, what's missing, and where the material risks sit. That early visibility sharpens supplemental request lists, focuses negotiation strategy, and allows the team to orient clients around key issues before the deal accelerates.
For a firm that advises founders and private equity sponsors on time-sensitive transactions, compressing early-stage review from days to hours has fundamentally changed how DBM sequences and staffs its deals.
Marveri organized and triaged a disorganized data room of hundreds of documents in minutes — flagging cap table issues and surfacing assignment risks before our first call. That kind of head start changes how you run a deal.
Counsel McCullen, Managing Partner, Duncan Bergman Mandell
The Client Impact
DBM's clients — repeat acquirers, serial founders, institutional investors — expect precision and speed. Since introducing Marveri, client conversations have shifted meaningfully. Instead of early-stage updates about ongoing review, clients receive structured, actionable insight almost immediately. That visibility improves decision-making and reinforces confidence in how the work is being done.
Diligence, historically one of the most opaque and time-consuming phases of a transaction, has become a point of differentiation for the firm.
Our clients are sophisticated. When they see an annotated risk summary on day one instead of a status update a few days later, it reinforces why they hired us. Marveri has made us more cost-efficient while increasing quality, and it's eliminated much of the diligence fatigue that typically defines this phase of the deal.
Counsel McCullen, Managing Partner, Duncan Bergman Mandell
Days → Hours
Early-stage issue spotting compressed
Day 1
Annotated risk summary at first conversation
Earlier
Issue identification reduces downstream delay