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Westlaw® Business, powered by GSI, is an integrated platform that delivers mission-critical business filings, relevant law and expert guidance in a powerful workflow solution.

Westlaw Business is geared to serving the unique information and workflow needs of business law professionals. It is now the home of GSI's flagship product, LIVEDGAR, the industry standard for SEC filings, precedent agreements and now, private company information.

Westlaw Business, a product of West, combines all these resources in a single, convenient platform optimized specifically for business law professionals.

Westlaw Business offers a comprehensive collection of content, including a listing of SEC filings dating back to 1988, and more than 220,000 Annual Reports to Shareholders from 44,000 companies in 117 countries and 119 languages.

With Westlaw Business, you can:

• Eliminate the need to construct complex queries or look up database identifiers with a single search that culls information from multiple databases.
• Get robust company intelligence – with Legal Due Diligence Reports that provide profiles in a useable, professional format on both publicly traded corporations and more than 125,000 private companies. 
• Securities Center organizes information and delivers consolidated results from filings, law and guidance. 
• M&A exclusive coverage now includes 25,000 U.S. private deals and 195,000 international deals (public and private).
• Private Equity helps you mitigate risk by providing precedents, guidance and law. 
• Get detailed user activity and simplified chargeback reporting with GSI QuickView+.
• ID and password management can be administered at user level to minimize administrator workload. Single sign-on capabilities can link Westlaw Business IDs to Westlaw user IDs.

Why choose Westlaw Business?

• Westlaw Business is the first purpose-built service for the business law professional, a fast-growing area of legal practice that comprises 25 percent of total law firm billings annually.
• Westlaw Businessis now the home of LIVEDGAR, GSI's flagship product, which includes new enhancements like access to 4 million Investext Analyst Reports and more than 125,000 Private Company Legal Due Diligence Reports, as well as SEDAR coverage, SEC Staff Reviews, Investext Analyst Reports, and international prospectuses.
• The Westlaw Business Securities Center is the most advanced workflow-enabled resource available for legal disclosures regulated by the '34 Act. 
• The Westlaw Business M&A Center offers unmatched global private and public company and deal coverage – including research, market analysis and other exclusive Thomson content – helping users complete their work quickly and confidently using one source.
• The Westlaw Business Private Equity Center brings together superior buyout and captial markets coverage, laws and regulations from West, and renowned Aspatore guidance materials to give you an unparelled resource for your private equity practice – all in a single location.

LIVEDGAR:

• International Prospectuses & 144A: Gathered from GSI's extensive global network of research professionals. LIVEDGAR catalogs provide instant access to 57,000 international prospectuses and hard-to-find unregistered private offerings dating back to 1990.
• No-Action Letters: An invaluable resource for SEC regulatory and interpretative guidance, LIVEDGAR's 61,000 No-Action letters dating back to 1971 are electronically available and searchable by full-text.
• Annual Reports: With 220,000 annual reports from 44,000 companies in 117 countries, LIVEDGAR offers one of the largest electronic repositories of annual reports in the industry.
• SEDAR: Fully integrated into LIVEDGAR, the SEDAR database enables full-text searching across 2.1 million Canadian public company, mutual fund and third-party filings dating back to SEDAR's inception in 1997.
• Company News, Quotes & Financials: LIVEDGAR provides historical and current news, stock quotes and financial information on all publicly traded companies.
• SEC Blank Forms: LIVEDGAR's SEC Blank Form collection includes a library of 198 up-to-date SEC forms that can be downloaded directly to the desktop for ease of use.
• Precedent Authority: For extremely focused research on the agreements, contracts and documents included in M&A transactions, LIVEDGAR's Precedent Authority allows users to drill down into the specifics of key M&A documents included in all SEC filings dating back to 1997.

Securities:

• Securities Navigator:  Hierarchical "controlled" taxonomy like the Key Number System provides a starting point for research and exploration. One-stop access to precedents, guidance and law on over '33 and '34 Act events. Can be browsed or searched by type of event or by form type.
• Securities Regulatory Library: Offering a comprehensive suite of information from the FINRA, NYSE and SEC, with the ability to search across all three regulatory bodies or search content from each organization in one easy step.
• Precedents & Analytics: Workflow driven by '33 and '34 Act form types provides the resources to prepare for filings drafting or review.  Form-specific access to checklists and guides.
• One-Stop Searching: A single search against filings, guidance and law delivers comprehensive coverage. Consolidated results from precedent filings, guidance and law.
• Checklists & Guides: Convenient access to checklists, questionnaires, blank forms and the SEC Compliance Calendar.
• Enhanced Document Display: Integrated Table of Contents enables one-click navigation through SEC document sections; highlighted search terms and one-click term navigation.
• Securities Currents: Timely, relevant updates on emerging disclosure trends and compliance requirements. One-click access to the most recent examples of risk factors and MD&A sections from 10-Q and 10-K filings.
• Business Due Diligence Coverage: U.S. public companies filing 10-Ks, 8-Ks, S-1, S-3, S-11 and related prospecutses and/or Schedule 14A, Legal Due Diligence Reports; individuals filing Forms 3, 4 and/or 5. Ability to develop a list of peer companies based on a variety of criteria including industry, financial profile and geography.
• Precedent SEC Filings: Full history of 10-K/10-KSB, 10-Q/10-QSB, 8-K, S-1, S-3, S-11 and related prospectuses, Schedule 14A and Forms 3, 4 and 5. Over 1 million searchable sections for 10-K/10-KSB, 10-Q/10-QSB, 8-K, S-1, S-3, S-11 and related prospectuses and Schedule 14A.
• Comprehensive Agency Guidance: 60,000 SEC Comment and Issuer response letters since 2002; 62,000 No Action letters back to 1971.
• Exclusive Expert Guidance: 50 Westlaw Analytical Series Treatise titles, many exclusive to Westlaw. All SEC Currents articles since August 2006, exclusive to GSI.
• Relevant Laws and Regulations: Securities Exchange Act of 1933; Securities Exchange Act of 1934; Sarbanes-Oxley; 1934 Exchange Act Rules; Regulations S-X, S-B, S-K and FD. Public Law tables of contents and section numbers/headings and Popular Name law naming conventions. Links to Westlaw® for deep research into legislative history and case law – StatutesPlus®, RegulationsPlus and KeyCite®.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

• Structures & Analytics: Search by deal metrics, target and acquirer characteristics, related parties, fees, and full text. Results can be delivered as a list of deals (spreadsheet download), deal summaries (cite list format) and deal overviews (abstracts). Precedent M&A Deals Database Covering US/Global Private and Public Deals – 25,000 U.S. private deals; 30,000 U.S. public deals; 195,000 International deals (public and private).
• Precedents & Models: Optimized for M&A agreement research. Search for agreements, clauses and defined terms. Quick access to blank forms for key SEC-mandated M&A filings. Blank forms: 17 M&A-related SEC blank forms. M&A targeted precedents and model documents. 220,000 M&A agreements (acquisition, credit & financing, escrow, golden parachutes, merger, poison pills, purchase, reorganizations, tender offers).
• M&A Currents: Timely, relevant expert news and commentary on emerging M&A disclosure trends. Instant access to the latest M&A deal announcements and developments.
• Rulings & Reviews: SEC Staff Reviews section searching defaults to M&A applicable comments. No-Action Letter link allows quick searching of William's Act-related submissions.
• Case law relevant to M&A contracts and agreements.
• Business Due Diligence: Quick access to all company information, including live links to private M&A deals, D&B general company information, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation information. 60,000 Private and International companies with Private Company Legal Due Diligence Reports. 14,000 U.S. and Canadian exchange traded companies with Legal Due Diligence Reports available. Investext Analyst Reports (4 million Reports by 600 brokerage houses, investment banks and consulting firms covering 53 industries). Coverage on 46,000 public and international companies back to 1997.

Private Equity:

• Private Equity Navigator: Search using predefined searches on a list of topics, including SEC filings, capital markets transaction abstracts, M&A transaction abstracts, SEC Currents articles, SEC staff reviews, SEC no-action letters, selected federal laws and regulations, and analytical materials.
• Private Equity Currents: Timely, relevant expert news and commentary on emerging Private Equity market trends.
• Precedent Agreements: Includes nine M&A agreement types, eight private equity agreement types, and 11 investment management agreement types.
• Laws and Regulations: Includes Investment Advisors Act of 1940, Investment Company Act of 1940, Internal Revenue Code, Rules 144 and 145.
• Exclusive Expertise: Checklists and guides exclusively from Aspatore.
• Business Due Diligence: Search all public and private companies with private equity transactions.