Knowledge

Knowledge is key to our business success

Working closely with our clients we have developed a number of commercially focused products that are designed to assist our clients to maximise value and manage risk.

Innovative working practices

Tools such as deal-maNageR and Risk-maNageR, originally developed to support M&A clients manage the deal process and any risks associated with implementation, have proved so successful that they have been adapted to support our clients in other areas too, including principles-based regulation and outsourcing transactions.

We have made our highly regarded, simple to use, award-winning enterprise search engine, NavigatoR, is available to our clients. Through NavigatoR we are able to share a much wider range of know-how and information with our clients including access to our practice notes, transactions bibles and similar useful information which we use to help ourselves stay at the cutting edge of the work that we do. Access is through a direct link and is password-free.

Building on the success of NavigatoR, we have created the Cascade - a revolutionary no-search tool providing specific client matter-related know-how and information to every lawyer working on an individual client’s matter. Cascade knows what each of our lawyers is working on and then automatically delivers the most relevant material to them. It helps us focus on meeting client requirements efficiently and effectively. Instant access to agreed client policies and to know-how as well as to bibles relating to past transactions saves time and results in a more cost effective service.

Alert services

Our alert services provide up to the minute information on legal developments across a series of markets and sectors.

Accessible via the web, this suite of products is designed for in-house counsel, compliance departments and company secretaries at financial institutions and other organisations to help keep up to date and manage risk in their key markets and jurisdictions. These services have been developed by our in-house experts in response to client demand.

The current portfolio of products comprises:

Asset Finance Alerts - focuses on developments in law relevant to the Basel 2 treatment of asset-secured financings
Credit Risk Mitigant Alerts - focuses on changes in law which may affect the treatment of certain credit risk mitigation arrangements in connection with a loan portfolio
Commercial Real Estate Alerts - focuses on changes in law affecting the effectiveness or enforceability of security arrangements over commercial real estate
Mining Finance Alerts - focuses on three key areas of law for mining finance lenders: state pre-emption rights, repatriation of funds and taking security over mining licences

Deal rooms

dealSmart is our Internet-based Deal Room giving clients direct access to documents as they are drafted or received. It provides better security than email or fax as access is protected by password and our firewall. You can access dealSmart from any computer with an Internet connection - anywhere in the world.

Knowledge sharing with clients

We are also able to offer clients access to specialist research and business resources, including our library information services and our company information & secretarial services. We produce regular financial services webcasts, online training and compliance programmes and know-how feeds to clients’ intranets.

Legal updates

Our legal updates (specialist legal publications, webcasts and seminars) focus on legal and regulatory developments across the broad range of our legal specialisations, industry sectors and jurisdictions We produce regular on-line legal updaters on pensions, insurance, financial services, construction and infrastructure and employment. We also produce single-topic briefings providing more in-depth analysis on significant developments.

ecomply

ecomply is our comprehensive online legal compliance training tool for businesses. It has been designed to assist our clients to establish and implement an effective and readily accessible legal compliance training program for management and employees. ecomply is interactive and user-friendly. The ecomply training content can be customised to target specific legal risk areas and operational requirements. The ecomply program can also be tailored to meet training and technical requirements.