Write about DD experience on resume for IB recruiting

I'm currently interning at a consulting firm and have been staffed primarily on CDD projects in our PE group. How would I go about writing this stuff on my resume if I'm prepping to rerecruit for IB next summer? I feel like I'm mostly just naming stuff I'm doing - market research, expert and upper management interviews, risk analysis, etc. but am having trouble quantifying the results. 

The problem is these deals haven't closed yet, and even if it did, the due diligence process is just a small part in the entire deal, so it feels wrong saying '... helped close a $xxx million acquisition of an xx company'. Also confidentiality means I cannot list the PE clients OR the targets, so I have to be really vague, only the industry and acquisition amount if I do write that.

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Would add a section on resume for "select transaction experience" and be vague with details and do a high level overview of what you did. If it involves a similar industry to the IB groups you are pursuing, it will be helpful. People will be unlikely to expect an intern to have any true deal experience beyond some DD and marketing materials stuff. However, if you put the deals on your resume, make sure you can actually articulate what you did and talk (non specifics) about the deal process and why/how it happened.

 
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