Westlaw Business is the only platform designed exclusively for business law professionals.
With advanced features that help you to devise the best solutions for your clients, Westlaw Business brings together industry-specific functionality, dynamic content, and exclusive research services. Together, these elements provide you with the competitive edge you need in today’s rugged economy.
Westlaw Business operates like no other platform because it’s built from the ground up with business law professionals in mind.
An exclusive search taxonomy engages the unique language of business professionals, formulating relationships between topics, precedents, guidance and law. Topics are continuously updated to ensure they maintain the utmost currency and relevance to users.
Westlaw Business is designed to help business law professionals elevate their business to the next level of sophistication and profitability.
WITH WESTLAW BUSINESS, YOU CAN:
- Aggregate critical due diligence information in seconds
- Gain a deeper understanding of clients, peers, suppliers, targets
- Effectively use company information for legal disclosures
- Mitigate risk by identifying company “land mines”
- Create professionally formatted reports that are current and ready to use
- Gain access from any business due diligence search result
- Stay up-to-date with Currents electronic publication, created by editorial experts
- Stay on top of the latest deals and disclosures trends
- Learn about how other companies have handled challenges
INFORMATION THAT COMES TO YOU
Westlaw Business is engineered to support your work. Its dynamic content is carefully structured and infused with technology that allows the right information to come to you – exactly at the moment you need it.
Corporate Finance for informed decision-making
• Thomson Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation, laws, and selected case law results in integrated searches
• Normalized loan agreements from EDGAR and SEDAR
• Federal, uniform, and selected state statutes and regulations from West
• Checklists and guidance from Aspatore and West treatises
• Current awareness with LPC Cold Sheets and Basis Weekly Newsletter
Islamic Finance for new opportunities
• Access Islamic Finance source documents to assist in structuring and documenting deals
• Deal information is searchable by practice area, jurisdiction, deal type, law firm, and related parties
• Industry events, trends, news and exclusive expert guidance discuss recent developments from major Islamic regions
- International Financing Review
- Sweet & Maxwell Asia® Islamic finance publications
- Basis Point
- Westlaw Business Currents
- Numerous regional news sources
M&A Center for global deals
• Extensive global public and private deal coverage
• Standardized agreement type searching
• Model agreements
• Williams Act section searching
Securities-US for research, drafting & review
• Covers ’33 Act, ’34 Act, and blue sky law
• Checklists and models provide guidance for disclosures
• Consolidated results from multiples filings, guidance and law
• Enhanced document display with linked table of contents
• Access to Westlaw analytical titles for reference
Securities-Canada for compliance research
• SEDAR model documents
• Canadian 144A and prospectuses
• SEDAR quick search with one-click results
• Business due diligence exclusive to SEDAR filers
Securities-UK for a strategic advantage
• Full-text searchable FSA listings
• Practical tips and checklists
• Specialized search taxonomy
Private Equity Center for a complete resource
• Private equity buyouts and capital markets offerings
• Aspatore guidance through checklists and forms
• Relevant federal laws, regulations and precedent authority
• Current awareness with Private Equity Currents
Restructuring Center for options to bankruptcy
• Targeted content for restructuring options outside of bankruptcy
• Search and browse topics by events and documents view
• Sample agreements with model language
• Analytical materials, checklists and guides
LIVEDGAR for one-stop searching
• Global and section searching
• One-click filings retrieval
• D&B general information
• Topical Research Library
• Precedent Authority
INTELLIGENT SUPPORT WHEN YOU NEED IT
Our research professionals can make a huge difference in your day by providing intelligent research and support for almost anything. They can locate hard-to-find documents, compile industry intelligence reports, and save you time, cost and hassle with your research needs.
Research support saves you time
• Custom research projects
• Custom alerts
• Historical filings
Business intelligence covers all the angles
• Corporate organization research, including articles, bylaws, poison pills, indemnification agreements and more
• Company debt structure including indentures, credit and loan agreements, facilities agreements
• Corporate employment and compensation, including employment agreements, separation agreements, severance information, change of control documents and benefits plans
Industry intelligence provides insight and analysis
• Industry deals and trends
• Peer employments and compensation
• Industry relationships
Contact
Westlaw Business
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Tel: +1 800.669.1154
Fax: +1 202.572.1990
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