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Virtual data rooms in Wilmington, DE

Virtual data rooms for Wilmington deals, audits and legal matters

By the Census Bureau's 2023 count, New Castle County, DE holds 341 offices of lawyers, 246 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms and 531 securities and investment firms with paid employees. ShareAndGo is a virtual data room for the documents they share during deals, audits, legal matters and fundraising.

What sets Wilmington's economy apart

Intellectual property holding companies is where Wilmington is most unlike the rest of the country: 48 establishments, a share of local businesses 8.3 times the national one. Next come corporate and regional headquarters (462 establishments, 4.4 times) and publishing, including software publishing (246 establishments, 3.6 times). No other metro on these pages has a higher concentration of intellectual property holding companies, out of 55 with published figures.

Companies that hold patents, trademarks and licenses share license agreements and royalty records with very few people at a time.

Headquarters run the deals: acquisitions, divestitures and financings are managed from these offices. In corporate and regional headquarters, Wilmington leads every metro on these pages.

The firms that share confidential documents in Wilmington

Law offices in New Castle County, DE run larger than most: only 55 percent of its 341 have fewer than five employees, below the 70 percent median for the metros on these pages, and the average office employs about 12.3 people.

On the deal side, New Castle County, DE also counts 531 securities and investment establishments, 99 corporate and regional managing offices and 226 real estate brokerages.

Together they are 1,443 of New Castle County, DE's 17,855 employer establishments, or about 8 percent.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 341
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 246
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 88
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 531
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 99
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 226
  • Law offices by size: 187 under 5 employees, 60 with 5 to 9, 49 with 10 to 19, 32 with 20 to 49, 13 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 4,200
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 2,300

Wilmington inside the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro

Wilmington sits in New Castle County, DE, which the Census Bureau estimated at 588,093 residents in July 2024, up 17,372 on the April 2020 base of 570,721. The county is one part of the larger Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro, so this page uses county figures rather than metro ones.

New Castle County, DE holds 11 percent of that metro's 3,246 offices of lawyers and 11 percent of its 2,222 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments. Its rate is 58.6 law offices per 100,000 residents, against 51.7 for the metro as a whole.

New Castle County stands out for investment firms: its 531 establishments in NAICS 523 are more than its 341 law offices, and come to 91.2 per 100,000 residents.

  • Residents, July 2024: 588,093
  • Residents, April 2020 base: 570,721
  • Change since 2020: +17,372 (3.0 percent)
  • Law offices per 100,000 residents: 58.6, metro 51.7
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll per 100,000 residents: 42.2, metro 35.4
  • Securities and investment per 100,000 residents: 91.2, metro 38.9
  • Managing offices per 100,000 residents: 17.0, metro 16.2
  • Real estate agents and brokers per 100,000 residents: 38.8, metro 30.9
  • Employees in offices of lawyers: about 4,200
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 2,300

The courts and regulators behind Wilmington paperwork

When a Wilmington dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

CPAs practicing in Delaware are licensed by the Delaware State Board of Accountancy.

At state level, securities offerings and investment advisers in Delaware answer to the Delaware Department of Justice, Investor Protection Unit, so a Wilmington fund raising money or an adviser facing an exam has documents to produce on request.

If personal information in a Wilmington deal, audit or case file is exposed, Delaware's data breach notification law sets who has to be told and when.

What a ShareAndGo data room does for Wilmington legal work

Here is what a ShareAndGo room gives law firms and in-house legal teams in Wilmington.

  • Dynamic watermarking stamps each page with the viewer's email and the date, so a leaked screenshot can be traced back to the recipient.
  • Every view, share, access and change goes into an audit log in which each entry carries a SHA-256 hash of the one before it, so an edit made after the fact can be detected.

Wilmington FAQ

How big is Wilmington's legal market?
The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns puts 341 offices of lawyers with paid employees in New Castle County, DE, 187 of them with fewer than five employees.
Can I tell who has opened a document?
Yes. Room insights show who visited and what they viewed. Every view, share, access and change goes into an audit log in which each entry carries a SHA-256 hash of the one before it, so an edit made after the fact can be detected.

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