Optimised for the way you work
Westlaw Business is the first platform to combine relevant listings, filings, law, and guidance with online resources created exclusively for business law professionals.
With advanced features that help you to devise the best possible solutions for your clients, Westlaw Business is the new industry standard for professionals who are involved in securities, M&A, compliance and reporting, contracting, restructuring, private equity, and more.
What makes Westlaw Business so valuable?
It's a combination of three distinct elements working together to elevate your business to the next level of sophistication and profitability:
- Practice-specific features
- Dynamic content
- Business law research and support
Together, these elements offer an unprecedented system to help you achieve - and exceed - your professional goals, no matter how rigorous the environment.
Westlaw Business, built with you in mind
- Navigator collates all the information relevant to your task and guides you quickly through complex documents, linking you directly from precedent clauses to all related information.
- Business Citator provides aggregate company information, directors and officers information, reported financials, recent SEC filings, international filings, loan finance agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and analyst reports - facilitating a deeper understanding of your competitors.
- Legal Due Diligence Reports deliver an instant overview of a potential counterparty or acquisition target in just minutes - professionally formatted and ready to use at your next meeting.
- Currents service is a fully integrated e-publication produced by our global editorial team. It keeps you ahead on the hot button issues of the day including legal industry reaction to regulatory activities, market volatility and the latest deals and disclosures.
- Securities-UK brings together relevant listings from the Financial Services Authority (FSA), plus legislation and guidance for commercial law practitioners.
- Securities-US offers the most complete, current coverage with practice-specific tools relevant to '33 Act, '34 Act, and blue sky law, exactly what you need for research, drafting, and review - no need to construct queries or choose databases.
- Securities-Canada offers SEDAR and related compliance research and document retrieval in a platform optimised for securities practice. Helps you draft documents and key agreements, identify precedent language, and monitor peers, clients, and competitors.
- The M&A Centre is a one-of-a-kind source of global public and private deal information and in-practice precedent. An exclusive system of standardised agreement types and structures surface the specific deal language you need when drafting documents.
- Islamic Finance - Westlaw Business Islamic Finance Centre is the first source to consolidate Islamic finance precedents, structures, standards, and guidance for lawyers.
- Private Equity - our Private Equity Centre helps you mitigate risk by providing the precedents, guidance, and law you need to operate in the alternative investment assets market.
- Livedgar® is the leading resource for business law professionals, offering section-search databases, Precedent Authority, exclusive private company information, and more, all in a single location.
- The Restructuring Centre offers targeted content that enables you to select and execute options to help solution-seeking organisations for which bankruptcy is not a desirable option.
- Research Support - our on-demand research service that saves you time, cost and hassle with your research needs.
- Industry Intelligence our research professionals provide you with industry insights and analysis to give you a clear view of the competitive landscape. Highly focused, comprehensive, and customisable reports provide the intelligence needed to survey the current business environment and give your clients a competitive advantage.
To find out how Westlaw Business can give you a competitive edge:
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