Practical Law What's Market and Business Law Center on WestlawNext are tools that help with transactional research. Practical Law What's Market allows users to quickly identify, review, analyze, and compare deals and market trends. Business Law Center provides a comprehensive collection of SEC and other global filings to give full context to deals. The tools work together - users can search for deal types on What's Market, then access all related filings on those deals through Business Law Center to develop an informed research strategy.
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1. Successful deals require a deep understanding of the parties
and market trends.
Practical Law What's Market
Search and compare deal
summaries for quick
analysis of market and
deal term trends.
Business Law Center
on WestlawNext
Research a database of
deeply tagged filings and
agreements.
WHAT ARE THEY?
Practical Law Whats Market is a tool that helps
you quickly identify, review or analyze, and compare
deals and general market trends in just a few clicks
instead of spending hours or days on research.
Coverage includes:
Antitrust risk-shifting
provisions
Federal merger
enforcement actions
Public merger
agreements
Private acquisition
agreements (those
that are publicly filed)
Credit agreements
IPOs
License agreements
Executive employment
agreements
Business Law Center is a comprehensive collection of
resources to help you dig deeper into related company
filings and other information so you can get the full
picture of a deal. Coverage includes:
Public M&A
Private M&A
Credit agreements
IPOs
Executive employment
agreements
Commercial agreements
Loan and bond deal
summaries
SEC Comment and no-
action letters and other
administrative materials
Registrations and
prospectuses
Private placements
144A
Regulation S offerings
Global company filings
Annual reports to
shareholders, and more
Use Practical Law Whats Market and
Business Law Center on WestlawNext
together for a powerful, integrated
approach to transactional research.
2. Access Business Law
Center to research the
SEC comment letter
database to learn more
about the disclosure
issues that emerging
growth companies face
when they go public.
You need to investigate a specific deal type for example, IPOs for emerging growth companies.
You can use Whats Market to identify deal and general market trends, then dig deeper into all
related company filings and other information using Business Law Center, to develop a solid
strategy for your deal.
Example: Researching IPOs for Emerging Growth Companies
To learn more about Business Law Center, visit legalsolutions.com/blc-trial
To learn more about Practical Law or request a free trial, visit practicallaw.com
HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER
Then compare deals at a glance based on terms
including industry sector, size of the offering, lead
underwriter, jurisdiction of organization and more.
Export into Word or Excel for easy reference.
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Start with Whats Market
to generate a curated list
of IPO deals, and filter
by emerging growth
companies.
Get access to all filings
for counterparties to
your deal for in-depth
insights.
Practical Law What's Market provides:
Expert analysis and insight on a range of deal filings and
agreements across a range of practice areas, pre-sorted
by deal type.
Market practice trend reports.
Side-by-side comparisons of agreement provision
summaries.
Direct access to underlying precedent agreements.
Business Law Center on WestlawNext provides:
A comprehensive, highly searchable database of SEC and
global filings to give you the full picture of a deal.
Provides related filings for agreement summaries in
What's Market.
AllEDGAR-fileddocumentsplusover1.5millionglobalfilings.
Bond offerings and loan transaction summaries where
the filings are not publicly available.
24hr/7 day a week access to Experts on call to help you
get the most from your research efforts.
WHAT DO THEY PROVIDE?