Legal
Gain insight into companies and transactions in both the public and private capital markets.
Legal professionals rely on FactSet's timely and insightful data to monitor companies, analyze transactions, and advise clients.
Go beyond traditional security analysis with FactSet's takeover defense and corporate governance data to quantify a firm's relative defense protection and quickly find companies with strong or weak defenses.
Monitor activist investors and set alerts to notify you of news related to their latest campaigns. Review activist investor profiles, detailing previous campaigns, tactics, outcomes, and more. Build and compare company profiles detailing all activism against a specific company.
Instantly find specific data within prospectuses, SEC filings, and M&A documents from all over the world. Every week thousands of new prospectuses are added in real-time to FactSet's Global Filings database to comprise the most up-to-date and relevant data set needed to check precedents and analyze risk and returns. All of the data is fully searchable: by text; within document areas, such as specific clauses; and by over 100 identified search fields.
As deals occur, review the qualitative aspects of merger transactions. Analyze specifically negotiated merger agreement and deal protection provisions, advisory fees, acquirer fees, and more. Track post deal ownership information and discover who will be on the new board, then see how they are related to other industry insiders by mapping connections between people and companies up to three degrees.
