box-legal-workflows-ma

Build and manage M&A virtual data rooms with Box MCP — create secure due-diligence folder structures, scope role-based access for internal teams and external parties, validate permissions before sharing, and answer cross-document due-diligence questions with Box AI. Use this skill when the user mentions M&A, deal rooms, data rooms, VDRs, due diligence, or mergers and acquisitions.

M&A Deal Room Management

PREREQUISITES:

• Use the box skill for Box MCP auth, tool selection, and base workflows. If it is not installed, run: npx skills add https://github.com/box/skills --skill box
• Use the box-legal-workflows skill for Box collaboration role definitions, Box AI usage boundaries, and reusable confirmation phrasings. If it is not installed, run: npx skills add box/skills --skill box-legal-workflows

Build and run an M&A data room in Box: create the folder hierarchy, scope role-based access with Box collaborations, validate permissions before sharing, and answer due-diligence questions with Box AI plus citations. This skill is the deal-room-specific recipe; the underlying Box tool mechanics live in the capability references below. Deal risk, materiality, and terms are attorney calls. Not legal advice.

Box capability references

Reach for these for tool mechanics rather than restating them here:

• The box skill's references/content-workflows.md — create the folder hierarchy, upload/copy, classify-and-file submissions
• The box skill's references/collaboration.md — role-based access, shared links, permission audits (list_item_collaborations)
• The box skill's references/mcp-search.md — locate documents, folder-scoped search
• The box skill's references/ai-and-retrieval.md — due-diligence Q&A and term extraction with citations

Folder structure

Create the tree using the MCP tools in the box skill's references/content-workflows.md (top-down, parent before child; reuse the existing folder on a 409 name conflict). Confirm the firm's template first. Example numbered structure — numeric prefixes keep ordering consistent and segregate external submissions:

text

[Deal Name] M&A Deal Room/
├── 01 - Financial Statements/
├── 02 - Legal Documents/
├── 03 - HR & Employment/
├── 04 - Intellectual Property/
├── 05 - Commercial Contracts/
├── 06 - Real Estate & Assets/
├── 07 - IT & Cybersecurity/
└── 08 - External Submissions/

Access model

Scope access least-privilege and folder-specific rather than root (role capabilities and external-sharing confirmation rules are in the box skill's references/collaboration.md and the bundled box-legal-workflows skill). Example deal-room mapping (confirm with the user):

• Internal: Deal Lead → Editor/Co-Owner on root; Finance → Viewer on Financial Statements; Legal → Editor on Legal Documents.
• External: External Counsel → Uploader on their own folder; Auditors → Viewer on Financial Statements; Prospective Buyer → Viewer on a curated subset, not the full room.

Tool selection

Deal-room task	Tool	Notes
Create folders	create_folder	Batch the hierarchy, top-down
Add files	upload_file / copy_file	New uploads or copy existing Box files
Grant access	create_collaboration	Confirm first for any external party
Shared link	add_folder_shared_link	Confirm audience/expiration
Audit/verify access	list_item_collaborations	Before and after external changes
Find docs	search_files_keyword	Scope with ancestor_folder_id
Due-diligence Q&A	ai_qa_multi_file	Cross-document; surface citations
Extract terms	ai_extract_structured_from_fields_enhanced	Persist with set_file_metadata
Classify submissions	ai_qa_single_file	Then copy_file into the right folder

Workflow

1. Setup: create the folder tree → grant internal access with create_collaboration. [CONFIRM: structure, emails/roles]
2. Populate: upload_file/copy_file; classify submissions with ai_qa_single_file, then copy_file into the right category folder.
3. External access: list_item_collaborations (audit) → [CONFIRM: who, folders, permission, expiration] → create_collaboration or add_folder_shared_link → list_item_collaborations (verify).
4. Due diligence: search_files_keyword (folder-scoped) → ai_qa_multi_file → present the answer with citations; ai_extract_structured_from_fields_enhanced for terms → set_file_metadata to persist.

Legal guardrails

Box mechanics (external-sharing confirmation, shared-link settings, AI pacing/limits/citations) are governed by the capability references above and box-legal-workflows. Specific to deal rooms:

• Deal risk, materiality, and term interpretation are attorney calls, never the agent's.
• Validate permissions with list_item_collaborations before and after external changes — a folder grant exposes everything inside it, including files added later.
• Audit trail: record returned folder/file/collaboration IDs and write DD summaries back to Box.